>there exists a conundrum which I feel represents a far greater existential threat to humanity. Trustless information...

This (jokingly) reminds of "fake news" - ie; trustless information = fake news!

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It is an interesting time, reminds me of a time in history when (please correct me if I'm wrong) there was no printing press and most of the religious 'control' was based upon the fact that most of it was in Latin and the everyday person had no way to verify anything.............then of course the printing press came out (other events too) and people no longer had to blindly follow others, they could interpret things themselves and make up their own minds......

Here we are, in the future, and I see history repeating, ie; Computer code/programming/algorthims has become the new latin.

A possible solution, ironically, is to use AI to "explain it like I'm 5" and let coding be as widespread as english....in other words, anyone can build their own server and load up their own "Oracle" and through prompts such as, "give me the answer for 'X' from 20 different sources.....

The biggest threat, I see (for now) is the privatization of AI and tokens becoming too expensive - in a world with economic collapse and food shortages it's not too hard to imagine buying tokens will become a luxury item (without proper housing or food etc)