This comment is nearly a full post und a post. :)
How to define who is the specialist in a specific topic.
That's of course a sticking point.
My idea was to also store credentials and certificates as proof of qualification pseudonymously on a blockchain in the future, maybe similar to what Cardano is planning in Ethiopia.
Your extensive post deserves a comprehensive response 😉 The topic helps as well since it is a topic that I think about regularly, and I listen to many others who touch-base on the topic of AI. Added to that, I always try to condense my posts (and comments), but usually, I write this book post with 2k to 3k words. Recently I even went to 4k words. NOBODY reads that, or hardly anybody, I know that, but still I write books 😆😆😆 I suppose for my own pleasure 😆😆😆
ID and certificates on the blockchain are one. However, my experience is that certificates don't tell a lot. In the IT business, I'm in companies like Microsoft and AWS and Google give discounts on licences to their direct customers, the service providers who create, develop and perhaps even manage the IT for their customers, purely based on the number of badges (certificates) holders. Badges to be earned for all sorts of courses and roles (solution architect, security consultant/architect, Office365, blahblahblah). However, I know from first-hand experience that plenty of those badge holders aren't specialists at all, they just passed the exam. I think we need a bit more complex system, in which an individual's credibility and specialism can be extracted from the experiences of said individual. I do hope AI can play a role here. Well, better said, I do believe AI can play a role here, but we need to develop AI systems that do the job well.
Thanks for sharing the Cardano/Ethiopia article. Will dig into that topic a bit further. Cool at least some in crypto space are working on this.
In theory the task would then be to find a good evaluation method for the significance of the different certificates etc.
But I agree that wouldn't be easy at all.
To be honest, I still didn't think in detail about how such an evaluation could take place in a fair and useful way (my post is rather long, yes, but nevertheless more of a collection of ideas than a presentation of any detailed solutions).
Solutions aren't easy to find, to be honest. I think we need to test many of them. Just thinking out loud: Some form of specialist rating is needed. Perhaps the best to rate these peeps are those working in the same industry or even in the same job. But conflict of interest plays a role. Perhaps it shall be the 'customers' who shall play a significant role in ratings. Anyways I don't have the solution as well, just thoughts which aren't fully structured. I guess I'm just blabbering 😂😂😂