The future is a confusing one.
The CEO of OpenAI, Sam Altman, has raised $100 million for his project Worldcoin. The program offers free crypto if the user allows to have their eyeballs to be scanned. Yikes.
Fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried was an early angel investor, signaling great things to come.
The eye info gleamed from the program will be saved in the Worldcoin database in perpetuity.
Reid Hoffman is another key investor. He’s the co-founder of LinkedIn, and was known to visit Jeffrey Epstein’s island.
Good grief.
Ostensibly, Altman is on a mission to make cryptocurrency accessible to less wealthy people. The Worldcoin website says they will make cryptocurrency available to “every person on the planet, regardless of country of background.”
Worldcoin will have its own separate crypto economy, separate from some of the big players. But they’re trading it on the ethereum blockchain, although their tech will allow transactions to be done more efficiently.
Identifying and letting a user login quickly with their eye will be a part of that.
It might be a smart move as bitcoin has seen good numbers and has recently proven to be a wise investment stock market-wise. And of course, betting on AI’s success has gone through the roof at well.
But who knows how many civil liberties that might cost us.
In meantime, Neil deGrasse Tyson made a lot of key ChatGPT predictions on PBD four months ago. A prescient conversation to say the least:
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