# Real-Person Authentication **Entity class:** Identity-security concept **Domain:** Identity / Synthetic media **Maturity:** Developed ## Definition Real-person authentication establishes that an interaction is controlled by the claimed living person rather than by a replay, synthetic avatar, proxy, or stolen credential. ## Mechanism and significance As generated humans improve, authentication must bind identity to session freshness, device or cryptographic evidence, and the specific authority being exercised. ## Relationships - **Research dossier:** [[research/ASI and RSI Timeline Research Moonshots|ASI and RSI Timeline Research Moonshots]] - **Ontology route:** [[ASI and RSI Timeline Ontology#Generative Humans, Continuity, and Presence|Generative Humans, Continuity, and Presence]] - **Primary fields:** [[Digital Human Twin]] · [[Machine Succession]] · [[Posthumous Avatar]] - **Adjacent concepts:** [[Service-Sector Avatar Automation]] · [[Synthetic Executive Impersonation]] · [[Avatar Countermeasure]] · [[Ancestor Simulation]] ## Sources and provenance - [[research/ASI and RSI Timeline Research Moonshots|ASI and RSI Timeline Research Moonshots]] — immediate source for this node's role in the broadcast research map. ## Evidence boundary The research dossier establishes why this entity or concept belongs in the Moonshots ontology. Time-sensitive organizational, product, policy, and performance claims should be checked against the linked primary source or a current authoritative source before reuse as settled fact.