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Registry 03 · Salon
Trust Architecture for Synthetic Media
A small room, a hard question, and time enough to think out loud.
Designing institutional epistemics for an era when evidence itself is generative. Nine participants, cryptographers, journalism leaders, civic technologists, and a constitutional scholar.
Classification
Convened dialogue
9 seats · April 02
Convened by Dr. M. Rowe · 9 seats
Brief / 01
Context record
"Trust Architecture for Synthetic Media" is a closed-door Strategic Salon convening on April 02, convened by dr. m. rowe, with 9 seats. Salons are Futurecraft's most concentrated unit of intellectual work, small enough that every participant carries the conversation, large enough to span the disciplines a serious question actually requires.
The session is organized around a single provocation: Designing institutional epistemics for an era when evidence itself is generative. Nine participants, cryptographers, journalism leaders, civic technologists, and a constitutional scholar. Participants are asked to engage with the pre-reading in advance and to arrive prepared to put a thesis on the table, not to perform consensus, but to test their position against the strongest counter-arguments in the room.
Each salon is designed to produce a permanent intellectual artifact. Intended outcome: A draft protocol proposal circulated under embargo to three foundations and one platform. The session is held under Chatham House rules; attribution is by explicit consent only.
02 / SESSION
Room preparation
Closed-door protocol
Pre-reading
- , C2PA Technical Brief (annotated)
- , Three case studies of failed verification regimes
Participants
- , Cryptographer · Provenance protocols
- , Investigative journalism executive
- , Platform trust & safety lead
- , Constitutional scholar
Intended outcome
A draft protocol proposal circulated under embargo to three foundations and one platform.