The internet is less than half human now. I think that is the problem of the decade, and I finally have to admit I've started working on it.
Automated traffic passed 53% of the web last year, and the agent era is just getting started. The missing piece is a lane where a message means a human meant it.
Your phone number is a public doorway with no lock. Real life solved this problem centuries ago with introductions. Our phones never did.
Passwords, Face ID, even iris scans all answer the wrong question for the AI era. The check that actually matters is the one nobody has built.
AI scams cost Americans nearly $900 million last year, and voice cloning is doing the heavy lifting. The two trust signals your phone relies on are both dead.
Spam calls and texts are not a filtering problem, they are an economics problem. Here is the version of this fight I think we could actually win.