Our main goal is to have individual member presentations on what problems/challenges they see in AI & Metaverse related to trust.
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Sandy Aggarwal : metaverse is not just entering a virtual but also for virtual entity to enter the real world (like in film Her). Check out Virbela - which provides virtual "spaces", e.g. meeting rooms, companies,... this is an example of a closed ecosystem where identity is easier to prove/verify. KYC is harder to achieve in an open ecosystem. A new character in a virtual world needs to be registered in a (regulated) ecosystem - and be associated with a human entity.
Wenjing Chu : how do we delineate where the virtual character begins/ends? who is responsible for the bad behavior of the character?
Zaida Rivai : anchoring a virtual character with a real human entity.
Sandy Aggarwal : in financial industry, a CEO can't say you are not responsible for the company's behavior.
"I did think about this idea of assigning DIDs to virtual characters and I can explain that in our next meeting."
The main point made here was that for social communities and society to flourish in the Metaverse, we'll need to have the identity working right. The question now becomes how to authenticate an entity (which could be an avatar owned by a person, an AI generated Avatar, such as Samantha in the movie "Her" or an IOT based persona). One option is to have the virtual world register this entity on some sort of a trust registry (audited under governance rules) every time a new avatar is spawned but that brings the question of who can be trusted to assign a VC to these newly spawned avatars (or entities). The bottom line then becomes how to ensure that each avatar can be authenticated not only by the underlying ecosystem but also by other avatars. If we need to allow avatar to avatar payments, an avatar should be able to identify and authenticate other avatars without having to go through the underlying system. This brings us to avatar owned wallets. For this process to work, each entity in the Metaverse must be human verifiable, meaning that there has to be a human behind each entity (as of course posited by you) to prevent anarchy in the Metaverse.