#42 - Ethics, Trust, and Regulation in Decentralized Public Infrastructure

Who is accountable when decentralized public infrastructure fails the people it was built to serve? This conversation explores the growing distance between technological advancement and policy capacity, the obligations that distinguish government from private sector, and the accessibility gaps that emerge when disabled, older, and marginalized populations are excluded from development and testing. The discussion moves from digital identity wallets to AI governance—and finds the same tensions running through each.