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   "text": "Semada's biometric onboarding technology uses zero knowledge proofs so that users retain continuing anonymity once they are onboarded.",
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   "text": "Web3 data attestation supports a governance model that assigns liability for AI misuse to identifiable individuals rather than distributing the burden across the whole community, which is what makes it a workable answer to AI related ethical dilemmas.",
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   "text": "Web3 based self sovereign identity gives individuals, and potentially AI systems themselves, control over their digital identities without a central authority, which in AI governance means AI entities can hold verifiable credentials.",
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