"It's Time" - OpenAI's Sam Altman Launches Iris-Scanning Crypto Plan To 'Verify' Every Human Online
Last week we presciently discussed the somewhat dystopian outlook for an iris-scanning 'World ID' project to identify every human online:
“Something like World ID will eventually exist, meaning that you will need to verify [you are human] on the internet, whether you like it or not,” WorldCoin CEO Alex Blania said.
Over the weekend that threat (or promise) became a reality as Worldcoin, a project partly created by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, launched the project’s ecosystem token on July 24.
The project provides a decentralized and private way to verify human identity online amid the rise of artificial intelligence technologies.
As CoinTelegraph.com's Exra Ruguerra reports, the project has continuously split opinions from within the crypto space to Silicon Valley, with some praising the project’s ambition and others calling it creepy and dystopian. Despite these comments, the project continues to pursue its goal of solving income inequality and online identity authentication.
