The AI gold rush will take humanity to some dark places
eyeballs in exchange for cryptocurrency and assigning the encoded results to a blockchain is the kind of dystopian idea that might have stoked a speculative boom during the pandemic, before eventually crashing to earth and leaving a trail of angry investors behind. But with interest in artificial intelligence reaching fever pitch, this risky solution to proving personhood in the digital world is gaining new impetus.
But as the crypto winter gives way to a scorching AI summer for tech fundraising, the project is aiming for a new lease on life more aligned with the vision of another Sam — Altman, co-founder ofparent organisation “Tools for Humanity”. Those iris scans, converted into unique identifiers, are the centrepiece of a plan to create a “World ID” that can distinguish between people and bots in a future dominated by AI.
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