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The Eyeball-Scanning Plan Designed to Save Us From AI

Jun 15, 2023

Alex Blania, co-founder and CEO of Tools for Humanity, shares insights on Worldcoin, a project designed to create a global identity system using the innovative Orb, an eyeball-scanning device. He discusses the rise of AI and societal concerns, including identity verification challenges and the risks of deepfakes. Blania explores how the Orb can support Universal Basic Income and ensure authentic human interaction while maintaining privacy. The conversation also delves into the intersection of AI, cryptocurrency, and the potential dystopian implications of biometric technology.

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Alex Blania

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The Practical Use Case for UBI Universal Basic Income

03:35

The Future of Healthcare and Medical Care

01:53

Intro

2min

Identity in the Age of AI

16min

Innovative Identity Verification: Trusting Technology Without Personal Data

5min

Building Trust in Biometrics

9min

Exploring Decentralized Identity Verification and Future of RollCoin

5min

The Dystopian Edge of Biometric Technology

15min

Reflections on Business Strategy and Event Promotions

3min

There are all kinds of societal concerns emerging out of the rise of artificial intelligence. Will it put us all out of work? Will fraudsters be able to use deepfakes — technology that can replicate our images and our voices — to scam us? We're in uncharted territory and nobody knows for sure how society will negotiate these risks. While many people are familiar with ChatGPT, its founder Sam Altman also co-founded Worldcoin, which aims to mitigate these risks. Enter: The Orb, an eyeball-scanning device that could provide everyone with a unique personal identifier. Think a global social security number, except you never have to share what it is with anyone. On this episode, we speak with Alex Blania, the CEO and co-founder of Tools For Humanity, the developer behind the Orb and the Worldcoin project, on his company's vision for how this tech can be used for things like proving one's humanness or collecting a Universal Basic Income in a world where AI predominates.

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