Worldcoin wants to prove your personhood

Enrique Dans
Enrique Dans
Published in
3 min readJul 26, 2023

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IMAGE: An Orb, the biometric device used to authenticate each user and ensure they are unique
IMAGE: Worldcoin

Monday, July 24, saw the official launch of the Worldcoin project, an interesting initiative by OpenAI founder Sam Altman to create a cryptocurrency, WLD, based on biometric identification that recognizes the uniqueness of each user while guaranteeing anonymity.

Since AI will supposedly be a boon for humanity by doing most of the work for us, it will soon be nigh on impossible to tell a human…

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Enrique Dans
Enrique Dans

Professor of Innovation at IE Business School and blogger (in English here and in Spanish at enriquedans.com)