Opinion: Want to help OpenAI CEO Sam Altman fix the knock-on effects created by his company? All you need to do is look into his orb.
Worldcoin is partly a response to Altman’s vision for AI. He anticipates his AI project will cause massive disruption and allow AI tools to pose as humans, so his response is to scan the eyeballs of everyone in the world. Altman asks us to trust him with that biometric information, and he will give us a few WLD tokens — which currently don’t actually do anything, so it’s the biometric equivalent of buying our identity registration with an on-chain version of the beads used to buy Manhattan.
Imagine the ego needed to assert that you will change the world with AI but warn your AI revolution will wreak havoc — yet, don’t worry, the whole world just needs to also scan their eyeballs into his secret Orb to fix it. This depth of hubris would make Soviet-era commissars blush.We are told not to worry because Worldcoin will decentralize. We were also told OpenAI was a nonprofit research organization, but we know how that promise changed when the lure of Microsoft’s $10 billion came calling.
In fairness, some of the top minds in zero-knowledge proof cryptography are working on the project. I don’t doubt their commitment or their tech, and we can appreciate the search for identification solutions within cryptocurrency to build on-chain identity while preserving privacy. That doesn’t mean buying into a solution from Altman — for a problem he’s creating with OpenAI — that works by giving his centralized project control over my identity.
That’s an understandable bias for an Ethereum developer who is already wealthy. However, for the rest of us, the market’s regular pricing system is more trustworthy than Altman’s dystopian eyeball scanner. There are easier solutions to Sybil attacks and other identity challenges to the extent they are a legitimate problem. I’d rather pay for access, or be fooled into interacting with bots, than scan my eyeballs into Altman’s Orb.
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