# Synthetic Humans Require Know Your Use Case by Richard Socher > AI avatars require more than Know Your Customer; they require Know Your Use Case. A synthetic participant in a meeting can impersonate an executive and authorize a fraudulent transfer, so communication platforms will need reliable ways to identify whether a participant is a real person. > **— Adapted from Richard Socher**, *MOONSHOTS Live, October 2026* ## Sources and Context - **Recording or publication:** [MOONSHOTS Live at 54:08](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Blyb1D927pM&t=3248s) — The poster text is an explicit non-verbatim adaptation assembled from the source excerpts below. It preserves the speaker's argument while removing spoken-language filler, restoring the subject, and completing the mechanism or consequence needed for independent use. - **Exact transcript excerpt at [54:08](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Blyb1D927pM&t=3248s):** “Not quite. Uh, it's sort of like it's hard to scale when a human has to be in the loop to say, "Yes, this is like a human, another person on the other side or not." Uh, you can't quite automate it completely, uh, and verify it in, in that automated fashion. Um, I do think you're, you're right. This is a good example where I think we need to do be, go beyond KYC and do KYU, know your use case, uh, right?” - **Exact transcript excerpt at [54:32](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Blyb1D927pM&t=3272s):** “Like, you don't want this technology to be in Zoom pretending to be the CEO, and like there are some famous stories where this has already happened, where they got someone to wire like $20 million-” - **Exact transcript excerpt at [54:42](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Blyb1D927pM&t=3282s):** “... because they created a Zoom of five other executives, and they all like, he was fooled well enough. Um, and, and so I think we need to, um, yeah, be careful, and like Zoom probably and Google Hangout need to start like finding countermeasures to identify is this a real person and, and things like that, uh, to prevent, uh, those kinds of hacks from happening.” - **Reconciled source dossier:** [[research/ASI and RSI Timeline Research Moonshots|ASI and RSI Timeline Research Moonshots]] — preserves broadcast order, speaker reconciliation, editorial conventions, and the surrounding argument from which this Reminder was promoted. ## Related Articles and Collections - **Collection:** [[collections/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]] - **Collection:** [[collections/AI-Science Doomers and Anti-Science Doomers|AI-Science Doomers and Anti-Science Doomers]] - **Article:** [[articles/We Cannot Un-Strike the Match|We Cannot Un-Strike the Match]] - **Article:** [[articles/The Immediate AI Risk Is the Public|The Immediate AI Risk Is the Public]] ## Related Topics - [[wiki/Richard Socher|Richard Socher]] - [[wiki/Know Your Use Case|Know Your Use Case]] - [[wiki/Synthetic Executive Impersonation|Synthetic Executive Impersonation]] ## Share on Social Media ``` AI avatars require more than Know Your Customer; they require Know Your Use Case. A synthetic participant in a meeting can impersonate an executive and authorize a fraudulent transfer, so communication platforms will need reliable ways to identify whether a participant is a real person. — Adapted from Richard Socher, MOONSHOTS Live, October 2026 https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-richard-socher-synthetic-humans-require-know-your-use-case ```