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How “personhood credentials” could help prove you’re a human online

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A group of 32 researchers from MIT , Microsoft , MIT , and Harvard has developed a verification concept called “personhood credentials” These credentials prove that their holder is a real person, without revealing any further information about the person’s identity.

To request such credentials, people would have to go to one of a number of issuers, like a government or some other kind of trusted organization.

Synthesia is evaluating how to integrate other personhood-proving mechanisms into its products.

It already has several measures in place, including requiring businesses to prove they are legitimate registered companies.

We are in urgent need of ways to differentiate humans from bots, says Emilio Ferrara , a professor of computer science.

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English

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