Overcoming Misinformation with AI & Blockchain
Rebuilding the Modern Tower of Babel
The ancient story of the Tower of Babel tells of humanity’s ambitious attempt to reach the heavens using their collective knowledge and technology.
As a result, God destroyed the tower and confounded humanity’s languages, making it impossible for them to communicate and share knowledge. This allegory continues to hold relevance in today’s digital world.
The culprits this time are our modern societal gods: Big Tech, Big Government, Big Media, and Big Academia.
The internet can be viewed as a contemporary version of the Tower of Babel, with its boundless reservoir of knowledge available to all.
However, much like the original tower, a figurative linguistic spell has been cast upon it. This spell, in the form of propaganda, misinformation, fake news, and lies, impairs users’ ability to discern the truth among the vast sea of information.
Worse is the fact that the internet Tower of Babel looks like it is still there. But since the majority of users cannot use it for its primary function — consuming true facts — it is as if it’s been destroyed while giving the illusion that it still works.
This situation enables the exploitation of the majority of users, generally unable to sift truth from propaganda, misinformation, and lies.
So, how does one counteract the spell of confusion and misinformation cast upon our modern Tower of Babel by these contemporary gods?
Our proposed solution is Knowledgecoin.io.
Knowledgecoin is a decentralized platform for truth verification, enhanced by artificial intelligence (AI) and built on the immutable blockchain.
Its primary purpose is to wrest control from the centralized powers of Big Tech, Big Government, Big Media, and Big Academia, and return it to the hands of genuine, truth-seeking internet users.
Through the transparent and unchangeable blockchain, users can verify information independently.
The decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) behind Knowledgecoin consists of competence-based juries composed of knowledge creators, validators, and invalidators.
These DAO juries utilize proprietary “Logic Templates” that prevent malicious jury members from undermining the integrity of the system.
The competence rating of each knowledge worker is determined through AI-driven crowd-sourced algorithms, similar to Amazon seller ratings, based on their performance in tracking knowledge accurately. The DAO juries are selected based on these ratings.
Our algorithms, powered by AI and recorded in blockchain, are designed to reward honest participants and penalize those who act maliciously.
Knowledgecoin’s mission is to unify humanity by establishing a shared foundation of accurate knowledge — a true common ground for all.
To discover how you can contribute to restoring validated knowledge to all individuals, visit us at Knowledgecoin.io.
About the Authors:
Rick Repetti: Professor of Philosophy at CUNY, Vice President at the American Philosophical Practitioners Association (APPA), and Chief Philosophy Officer at Knowledgecoin.io.
Mark Gleason: Mark Gleason is a Chief Enterprise Architect, Venture Capitalist, and Board Member at Knowledgecoin.io.
