The Verification Crisis: Why Society No Longer Knows Who Can Actually Do Anything
Modern civilization operates on a foundational assumption so basic that stating it explicitly feels unnecessary: when critical systems require expertise, we can verify who possesses that expertise before granting them authority over those systems. This assumption no longer holds. We have lost the infrastructure enabling capability verification at scale. Not degraded it. Not made it … The Verification Crisis: Why Society No Longer Knows Who Can Actually Do Anything