Signals Through the Noise: The Trust Problem

Can authenticity create trust?In this conversation, Dr. Manny Ahmed of Open Origins explains how his team is building technology to verify the origin and integrity of digital content in an age increasingly shaped by AI-generated media.We explore the distinction between authenticity and provenance, the challenges of verifying historical content, the limits of content authentication, and why trust remains a fundamentally human problem even when technology can verify the underlying data.The discussion also examines blockchain scalability, misinformation, insurance fraud, and what happens when the incentives surrounding information become more important than the information itself.