OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's Worldcoin cryptocurrency is out of beta. The website claims Worldcoin is a "privacy-preserving digital identity (World ID) and, where laws allow, a digital currency (WLD) received simply for being human" and can be a "reliable solution for distinguishing humans from AI online while preserving privacy, enable global democratic processes, and eventually show a potential path to AI-funded UBI". To do this you visit an Orb (not a joke) and have your eyeball scanned and linked to your World ID digital identity in the "World" smartphone app, plus roughly A$100 in Worldcoin. There's no Orbs in Australia yet, so we can't get World IDs. On one hand, this is terrifying as a solution to a digital identity. On the other we have MyGov. Ugh.
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