There are two pro bot solutions both which I blogged about. One solution is to simply reward humans for human computations that AI cannot do efficiently.
1. If humans aren't making enough from blogging then maybe blogging isn't an activity which humans are best suited for, but at the same time it's not like AI at this time is able to blog better than humans at everything. Also, humans form friendships, just adding a friends list would encourage interpersonal relationships.
2. Privacy can be enhanced while also allowing verification of unique human identity on Steemit. The technical details of how to do this will be addressed a bit below, but there should never be a reason why the crowd should demand someone break their pseudo-anonymity. The blockchain itself can verify accounts with minimal or perhaps without any human seeing personal identifiable information.
How do we verify accounts while optimizing privacy (pseudo-anonymity)?
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First, privacy is all about access control. Alice wants (blockchain) to know she's a unique human. Alice doesn't want everyone to know which unique human she is or anything more than she is a unique human. This is made possible through blind signatures, and using the typical KYC or ID procedures. An AI could even evaluate humanness of content producers just by analysis of their content, and the AI(bot) can ask for personal identifiable information in such a way that it cannot be linked back to the pseudonym.
In my own blog post I discussed how to do this, and it can even be quantum resistant. See: ["Decentralized Attribute-Based Encryption is Possible on a Blockchain"](https://steemit.com/security/@dana-edwards/decentralized-attribute-based-encryption-is-possible-on-a-blockchain) and [" Quantum Resistant Error Correcting Code Based Blind Signatures Can Enhance Voter Privacy On Steemit"](https://steemit.com/crypto-news/@dana-edwards/quantum-resistant-error-correcting-code-based-blind-signatures-can-enhance-voter-privacy-on-steemit)
Use blind signatures
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For people into technical details, blind signatures will allow Steemit to link the hash of personal identifiable information to a Steemit account in a way where no one can determine which information belongs to which account. If the information is encrypted in the decentralized cloud, such as IPFS or Storj, then someone's KYC documents such as drivers license, government ID, and other details can be saved there for AI to analyze in the future.
For example, suppose someday we want to lock away parts of Steemit from underage users accounts? This is easily possible if an AI can check all of our personal information and filter out anyone under the legal limit. The point is, I wouldn't need to know anything about any pseudonym that I'm not told, but the system, the blockchain, would know us all. AI would access the blockchain with our permission, and could verify on an attribute by attribute basis.