Praveen Singh

Reputation Arbitrage and the Crisis of Calibrated Trust: Defending the Public Against AI-Enabled Synthetic Deception

The proliferation of generative artificial intelligence has precipitated a fundamental restructuring of the epistemology of trust in digital communication. This paper introduces the concept of “reputation arbitrage”, the systematic exploitation of borrowed credibility signals thr...

Reputation Arbitrage and the Crisis of Institutional Trust: Defending Organisations When Genuine Identities Perform Fraudulent Actions

The proliferation of generative artificial intelligence has restructured the threat landscape for institutional security, shifting the locus of attack from technical infrastructure compromise to the instrumentalisation of legitimate insiders. This paper, the second in a three-par...

Language, Trust, and the Architecture of Deception: A Framing Note for the Reputation Arbitrage Series

Language shapes mind, machines, and institutions. That single claim is the thesis running underneath the three-part Reputation Arbitrage series, though none of the three papers states it in these terms. Each paper was written to stand on its own, addressed to a different literatu...