Human identity: the number one challenge in computer science

Kernel and the AKASHA Foundation published an essay arguing that computer science's current approach to digital identity is a narrow, mechanistic conception that threatens to pollute the information ecology of human nature and culture. The author, who is not named in the excerpt, contends that digital identity treats people as bodies to be objectified rather than as informational beings formed through relationships and dialogue. The essay calls for an urgent interdisciplinary intervention and an ecological perspective, and it focuses its critique on self-sovereign identity (SSI), which it describes as the state of the art.