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   Sam Altman's newest venture has built a robot to decide if you're human   
      
   Date:   
   Tue, 27 May 2025 22:00:00 +0000   
      
   Description:   
   Sam Altmans new venture, World, debuts Orb iris scanner to prove you're human.   
      
   FULL STORY   
      
   Staring into a small metal orb and hearing it confirm your humanity is a    
   scene from many a dystopian science fiction story. It's also an idea that   
   OpenAI CEO Sam Altman thinks should be implemented in real life. That's the   
   idea behind biometric identity startup Tools for Humanity's World system.   
   World, formerly known as Worldcoin, is rolling out a portable iris scanner   
   called the Orb Mini in the U.S. to carry out that directive in a way the   
   company claims will benefit people.    
      
   The Orb Mini looks like something between a futuristic smartphone camera and    
   a Black Mirror prop. The device scans your iris to confirm your humanity,   
   creating a unique World ID, a blockchain-stored identity token that says,    
   this person is real and has irises to prove it.    
      
   Sam Altman and company claim a lack of trust is one of the most urgent crises   
   of the modern internet. Unspoken is Altman and OpenAI's contribution to a   
   world where AI can generate books, deepfake voices, and even realistically   
   awful dating profiles with ease. Tools for Humanity is betting that the next   
   evolution of the internet will require biometric proof that youre actually a   
   person, not just a particularly well-programmed AI model.   
      
   Human behavior    
      
   But its not just tech theatrics. Tools for Humanity has lined up some    
   big-name partners to help bring the Orb Mini to everyone. Visa is working    
   with World on a debit card connected to the World App, while Match Group is   
   testing the technology in Japan to verify that the people you see on your   
   dating app are both human and adult. Gaming hardware brand Razer is also   
   exploring how to use World IDs to weed out bots from multiplayer sessions.   
   After scanning your eye, Orb will provide you with a cryptographic identity    
   to use for shopping, flirting, and gaming with other humans.    
      
   The company plans to roll out 7,500 Orb Mini devices across the U.S. by the   
   end of the year. Youll find them at pop-ups, partner company locations, and   
   anywhere else they can get a kiosk to scan your face. The Orb Mini is    
   designed to be portable, so it could go anywhere people with eyes go.    
      
   Of course, a company collecting and storing biometric data from millions of   
   people sounds problematic. That's because it is unless there are a lot of   
   foolproof security systems for storing and accessing the data. Tools for   
   Humanity says it has all that covered with anonymized data, as well as not   
   storing iris images and other privacy-centered features. Still asking people   
   to trust you with their eyeballs may be a big swing.    
      
   But, as AI-generated content floods social media and scams get more   
   sophisticated, the appeal of ensuring you're interacting with actual humans    
   is understandable. A verified human internet is a nice idea, but there are a   
   lot of questions about what it means to have to prove youre real in a world   
   where realism is becoming suspiciously easy to fake. Trusting that someone is   
   human is tough online; trusting a company to always keep your identity safe    
   is even tougher.   
      
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   Link to news story:   
   https://www.techradar.com/computing/artificial-intelligence/sam-altmans-newest   
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