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highplainsdem

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Tue Mar 21, 2023, 11:27 AM Mar 2023

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman wants iris scans of the entire world and is offering crypto

This new article about another of Altman's companies is from Fortune originally

https://fortune.com/crypto/2023/03/21/sam-altman-orb-scan-eyeballs-ai-bot-worldcoin/

and here's the Yahoo News link:

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/openai-ceo-sam-altman-wants-110000591.html

The Worldcoin orb resembles a bowling ball conceived by Steve Jobs or an oversized Magic 8 ball possessed by HAL 9000. Its glossy exterior envelops the sphere, save for a gaping black circle in the front that houses three sensors positioned in a triangle.

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Worldcoin, in contrast, might be original to a fault, starting with the orb—perhaps the most iconic piece of hardware since the iPad. Then comes the pitch: There are 8 billion people on Earth. How do we prove each person is real? Worldcoin’s solution is cataloging every individual over 18 years old through a privacy-preserving protocol, rewarding each person with cryptocurrency, which in turn will become the new global monetary standard.

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They say they have two purposes for this.

One is that in a world where.AI has taken our jobs, they can use their cryotocurrency to distribute a universal basic income, and Worldcoin will ensure it goes to the humans.

The other is that Altman and his partners want everyone in the world to use Worldcoin's World ID to replace all their user names and passwords online, since it will prove you aren't a bot because they've scanned you.

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Elizabeth Renieris, a privacy expert and senior research associate at Oxford’s Institute for Ethics in A.I., says Worldcoin is just positioning itself to profit off an A.I.-dominated society created by Sam Altman’s higher-profile company.

“One Altman entity manufactures a problem, and the other sells a solution to the problem they manufactured,” Renieris tells me. “The relationship is a bit like pharmaceutical companies who place dangerous, highly addictive drugs on the market and then try to sell new drugs to treat the very addiction they helped create.”

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Welcome to Sam Altman's Brave New World.


Worldcoin has been around for a few years but is in the news again because of OpenAI.

Article from Slate in 2021 about why people should not get Worldcoin's iris scans:

https://slate.com/technology/2021/07/worldcoin-scan-eyeball-iris-cryptocurrency.html
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