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The Weirdest Project happening in the Tech World right now
No, the company using orbs to scan your eyeballs does not have your best interest at heart
5 min readAug 6, 2023
Tools for Humanity is a company co-founded by Sam Altman, the now-infamous CEO of OpenAI (of ChatGPT fame). The premise for the company’s flagship project, WorldCoin, is simple:
- Exponential improvements in Artificial Intelligence technology will one day lead to the creation of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI).
- When this happens, the global economy will be disrupted beyond recognition by job destruction, wealth concentration, etc.
- A post-AGI world will need something resembling a Universal Basic Income (UBI): money with no strings attached to par inequalities.
- AI improvements will make proving that someone online is a human very difficult.
- But, for UBI projects to work, you will need to verify that the people receiving it are real, and are not cheating the system.
So far, so good, right? It’s however all downhill from here. WorldCoin is the weirdest project happening in the tech world right now.
