The internet has been groaning under the load of bots, automation and distrust for a while now anyway: in my mind what is needed is a system for proving constituent parts of your identity which is also privacy preserving. I'm thinking of the work around DID re: rebooting the web of trust, and the W3C working group
If you can wield an ephemeral and verifiable token which asserts your humanness, hierarchically derived from a certificate privately issued to you by one of hopefully a healthy number of well known authorities, you can participate within circles of the human web without revealing anything else about your identity (name, a/s/l, etc)
But, outside of this enclave you can also interact with AI without revealing whether in fact you too are AI.
In this way the internet can develop a more sensitive immune system where it is difficult for human systems to be perverted by Sybil attacks.
I disagree with top comment a bit - I think we need tokens that are authenticated to an identity much like SSLs certs. If you choose to use your token to post AI generated crap on the internet, I can choose to block it. I can also choose to subscribe to community managed block lists. I think content on the internet needs to be reputation based, and if you choose to read content that isn't signed by a real person's identity, then it's sort of on you if you wind up reading bot written crap.
I think community managed lists would also be a great way to filter out people with annoying or problematic communication styles or opinions. If you publicly support Jordan Peterson, I can add you to the list of Jordan Peterson supporters, and as a community we'd never have to read anything you post anywhere, ever.
If there's a central authority for connecting tokens to a single identity, and there's a way for me to connect all of your tokens to a central "parent" token so I can block all of someone's tokens at once, then I guess that works.
If you can wield an ephemeral and verifiable token which asserts your humanness, hierarchically derived from a certificate privately issued to you by one of hopefully a healthy number of well known authorities, you can participate within circles of the human web without revealing anything else about your identity (name, a/s/l, etc)
But, outside of this enclave you can also interact with AI without revealing whether in fact you too are AI.
In this way the internet can develop a more sensitive immune system where it is difficult for human systems to be perverted by Sybil attacks.