Trust can reach billions of sources without a central gatekeeper through low-branching recursive delegation: each participant vouches for about 50 connections it can actually evaluate, and paths of about six hops reach the world, with redundant paths letting users route around captured intermediaries.

Evidence 2 passages

• groundsAttribution-Based Control in AI Systems (thesis summary)

  Low-branching recursion (right) achieves exponential reach through depth while preserving evaluation capacity at each hop

• groundsAttribution-Based Control in AI Systems (thesis summary)

  users can route around failing or captured intermediaries through alternative verified paths

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