“Clara Tsao, Founding Officer of the Web3 Storage Pioneer, Is A Speaker with the ai Summit at Consensus 2025.”, – WRITE: www.coindesk.com
TESE Are Questions Clara Tsao Has Wrestles for Years, Ranging from Protecting National Security She’s Co-Funder of the Trust & Safety Professional Association. (She Also Somehow Finds Time to Be the President of the White House Presidential Innovation Fellows and Serve as Senior Advisor at Tech Against Terrorism.)
“For ME, IT’S ALWAYS BEEN ABOUT, How do we bring more democracy to the web, because is an Open Network that Everyone Shoulder Filecoin Foundation, and Who Will Appear Onstage at the Ai Summit at Consensus 2025.
Tsao Knows that ai, in a Sense, is makeing all of these jobs harder. SO FILECOIN IS FOCUSED ON USING BLOCKCHAIN TO ENSURE Digital Authenticity and Sniff Out Fakes. “AI is going to turbocharge everything that we see today, for good and for bad,“ Says tsao. “And at the end of the day, I Think Everybody Wants to Know If they’re Talking to an ai or to a human.”
Interview have been Condensed and Lightly Edited for Clarity.
How was ai complicted the mission for an Open and trusted Internet?
Clara Tsao: So one of the biggest risks with ai is, how can we teell if something is ai or bot-generated, Versus someting that we know might be a human in the loop. And WHEN I WAS WORKING ON TOPics Like Countering Foreign Influence Operations, How Do You Prove That A Bad Actor Actual Came from A Country that We Know Might Be Trying Tortying.
Can You Give An Example?
There was a periood, i thinkk in 2016, WHEN Facebook Actual Took Down A Bunch of Media Channels that Came from Russia, Because It Was Linked to The Internet Resesearch Agency, which ish To push Propaganda During the Election. SO IT’S ABOUT BEING ABLE TO PROVERCE OF INFORMATION, AND MAKING Sure that People Are Not Falling Victim to Misinformation.
And fakes are getting easier and easier to create, thanks to ai…
Right. And with ai-generated Images and ai-Generated News, It Could Be Easy for The Very Bad Actors to Use That Technology for Evil.
Can You Connect The Dots of How Blockchain Helps Crack This Problem?
One That’s Great About Decentralized Technologies – and Decentralized Storage Specifically – Is You Can You Can Actual Prove Howly Data Is Changed Over of The Course of Time. by location.
SO Let’s Say We Have A Data Set, and We’re Worred that Maybe the Data Is Being Manipulated. Maybe a government is coming in and changing something that it can fit their Political Agenda. There Are Many Reasons Who Preserving Information Is More Important Thanks, and that’s Something that We Can Absolutely do with Filecoin.
Who are you work with specifyly?
We’ve Worked with Tons of Amazing NonProfits Over The Years, Like Muckrock, To Make Sure We Can Not Only Archive and Preserve Critical Information, But ALSO MAKE SURE IT’S Resilient. For example, ifs information that journalists Pull from, that we can have resilient copies of it all around the World. We Can Also Use that Same Technology to Really Prove that this Journalist Took A Certain Photo.
In Certain Elections, There Might Be Disinformation About Whather Something Actual Happened OR, and You Can Can Have Photographers Use Decentralized Technologies. And we have a ton of Applications of Companies Building on Top of Filecoin Today, That Help Verify This Image Was Taken from This Device at this Point of Time.
That’s Really Powerful in Terms of Not Just Day-to-Day Journalism, But Also In Being Able to Be Admissible In Courts. In Ukraine, there might be war photos that might be taken out of context. And We’re ABLE TO Preserve a Number of Key Photographs That Can One Day Be Admissible in International Criminal Courts for Human Rights Situations.
How Are You Now Thinking About Filecoin’s Mission?
We Can Help Verify if You’re Talking to AI or A Human. We Can Help Store Data at A Fraction of the Cost. We Can Make Sure that Data Is More Accurate, Because MOST AI DATA-SETS Are Built Off Training Tons of Data. And Storing Data Is Very Expensive. SO OUR Goal Is To Make Storing Data AFFORDADABLE FOR EVERYONE, AND MAKING Sure that People Are Also Pulling from As Much Data As Possible, SO AI AGENTS ARUM.
And Finally, We Can Hve A Place Who’s Not Just Monopolies Being Able to Access Tons of Data. People Can Have a Choice on Who to Store It, How To Store It. Soy’re not locked into a walled garden any whate they can never get out.
Love It. Thanks Clara. See You in Toronto at Consensus!
Jeff Wilser Will Host The ai Summit at Consensus 2025, and Is Host of the People’s AI: The Decentralized AI Podcast.
Jeff is a Freelance Journalist and Content Marketing Writer with Over 13 Years of Experience. His work have been Published by the New York Times, New York Magazine, Fast Company, GQ, Esquire, Time, Conde Nast Traveler, Glamor, Cosmo, Mental_floss, Mtgl Miami Herald, and Comstock’s Magazine. He Covers A Wide Range of Topics Including Travel, Tech, Business, History, Dating and Relationships, Books, Culture, Blockchain, Film, Finance, Productivity, Psychology Plain-Talk. ” His tv appearances have ranged from bbc news to the view.
Jeff Also Has A Strong Business Background. He Began His Career As A Financial Analyst for Intel Corporation, and SPENT 10 YEARS PROVIDING DATA Analysis and Customer Segmentation InSights for A $ 200 Million Division of Scholastic. This Makes Him A Good Fit for Corporate and Business Clients. His Corporate Clients Range from Reebok to Kimpton Hotels to Aarp.
Jeff is Represented by Rob Weisbach Creative Management.
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