The New American
As the line between man and machine becomes increasingly blurry, one of the people who helped create this trend has invented a gadget to supposedly address the problem. The machine, an eye scanner that issues a personal “World ID,” raises serious concerns about privacy.
The Orb
Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, which creates artificial intelligence technology, wants everyone in the world to get the Orb. Time magazine featured the new contraption on the cover of its June 23 issue. Here’s how it works:
It’s a white sphere about the size of a beach ball, with a camera at its center. The company that makes it, known as Tools for Humanity, calls this mysterious device the Orb. Stare into the heart of the plastic-and-silicon globe and it will map the unique furrows and ciliary zones of your iris. Seconds later, you’ll receive inviolable proof of your humanity: a 12,800-digit binary number, known as an iris code, sent to an app on your phone. At the same time, a packet of cryptocurrency called Worldcoin, worth approximately $42, will be transferred to your digital wallet — your reward for becoming a “verified human.”
The Orb is part of Tools for Humanity’s biometric identity project called World, which used to be called Worldcoin. Altman said he created it after realizing that AI is becoming so advanced and human-like “that you would no longer be able to tell whether what you read, saw, or heard online came from a real person.”
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