The Erosion of Secrecy Under AI-Enhanced Surveillance I’ve seen plenty of discussion about how AI will make it increasingly easy to deceive people with cheaply generated artificial content (i.e., “deepfakes”), and I concede that this may be true if no practical defensive countermeasures could be taken to counteract them. However,...
TL;DR: Advances in AI, dispersed sensing, and data aggregation are likely to reduce the cost of factual validation to the point that significant sustained lying and secrecy become prohibitively expensive. This will cause a shift in strategy from maintaining informational asymmetry to exploiting attentional asymmetry. If these dynamics are not...
TL;DR: Advances in AI, sensing, and data aggregation are steadily eroding the feasibility of sustained secrecy for individuals, corporations, and states. As verification and cross-correlation scale, maintaining coherent falsehoods becomes increasingly expensive, while validation will likely remain comparatively cheap. This shifts strategic advantage away from informational asymmetry and toward attentional...