RSAC 2025: AI may force a reboot of America’s identity system

The entire American system of identity— not just online digital identities, but drivers’ licenses and passports too — is a barely functioning mess that may collapse as it is undermined by deepfakes and other forms of AI-generated fraud, a security researcher said at the RSAC conference here Wednesday (April 30).

“It’s just pathetic,” said Caleb Sima of the Cloud Security Alliance. “It’s a massive problem. A $43 billion-a-year problem,” he added, citing the estimated annual cost of consumer identity fraud.

Sima said the problem is that American identities are based on two very weak pillars: birth certificates and Social Security numbers.

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