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Sam Altman’s Worldcoin becomes World and shows new iris-scanning Orb to prove your humanity


Worldcoin, the Sam Altman co-founded "proof of personhood" crypto startup that scans people's eyeballs, announced on Thursday that it dropped the "coin"

OpenAI’s CEO, Sam Altman, spends a good chunk of his time working at World, Blania told TechCrunch during a press conference, but said the two startups’ missions are independent from each other. (Image credit: Maxwell Zeff)World is predicated on the idea that advanced AI systems – like the one Altman’s OpenAI is trying to build – will one day make it impossible to tell whether or not you are talking to a human online. They aren’t meant to replace national IDs, an executive clarified during a press conference, but could let people verify their identities online without giving up too much extraneous information, like they might by uploading a driver’s license or passport.

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