Barry O'Sullivan

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108 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Aug 2026 last heard 14 Aug

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Taking Stock · Circular economy, 'dead internet' theory & blockchain revolution · 14 Aug 2026 podcast

um your listeners would be very familiar with that.

Um and how um

How X responded is that they simply said, Well, you know what, we're we're going to restrict the product to paid to uh to paid accounts.

And of course, um then the problem to a large extent was eliminated because uh those users identify themselves through their credit cards.

You know, so they uh we have to be very careful of um the incentives that are there on the internet because they really um they change the behavior of our users very significantly.

Secondly.

Um and so in an environment where one is trying to do business, I think it is important that the that there is some way of ensuring that the people who are engaging or that the accounts that are engaging c do correspond to real people or other real businesses.

Well that's the that's a very challenging issue.

And I suppose when I say providence, I don't mean necessarily that you identify that this is an actual human being, but that this agent is representing an actual real human being.

And so if if you have an agent that is, you know, placing orders for your business, that um there needs to be some way of assuring that this that this bot that this uh agent is actually working on behalf of a legitimate person or a legitimate um business.

And you know, there there are a variety of ways in which we can do that.

You know, there can be um I suppose what's happening today is that the the the the the pace of uh investment and the pace of development in AI is really um tripping us up.

We're really um suffering from problems that are a result of us um

trying to run before we can walk.

You know, there there are protections that we need to put in place for for for businesses so that they can be assured that their um that the you know business is been run effectively and, you know, properly and that there you know that there's adequate security and so on.

Um so we do need those checks and balances.

So I think there does need to be a provenance mechanism put in place so that we know who um whose agents are whose

Who is uh you know, uh uh do um agents have legitimate um are they legitimately created?

Or, you know, in in fact are are people seeing lots of orders and lots of inquiries coming from adversaries who are effectively trying to trying to um implement what's called a denial of service on your uh on your website.

Imagine you're

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