180 - Worldcoin’s Sam Altman & Alex Blania on Crypto's Most Ambitious Project

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🗓️ 24 July 2023

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Disclaimer: This episode was recorded on May 14th, 2023

David is joined by Worldcoin Co-Founders, Alex Blania and Sam Altman. Alex is Worldcoin’s CEO and Sam is CEO of OpenAI. Both Co-founded Worldcoin in 2020.

Worldcoin is one of the most ambitious crypto projects in the space. It’s Worldcoin’s philosophy that the best way to produce unique verifiable humanness is through human biometrics that map to our unique DNA. This is the most robust way to achieve sybil resistance. That is why Worldcoin created its silver Orb that scans user's eyeballs.

Why scan the eye? Is it safe? How is data stored? What’s Worldcoin’s crypto token distribution plan? All of these questions and much more answered in the episode.

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TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro
6:15 Inception of Worldcoin Idea
8:35 How Sam & Alex Met
10:57 Why Scan Eyes
16:35 The Technology Behind the Orb
21:40 Worldcoin & Privacy
25:05 How Worldcoin Data Flows
28:35 Why Worldcoin is Needed
33:02 Proof of Personhood & Crypto
35:05 Worldcoin’s Distribution Plan
36:49 Worldcoin’s Complexity & Pressure
39:25 Sam’s Involvement with Worldcoin
39:47 Worldcoin & Optimism
42:00 Orb Operations
48:10 Worldcoin Roadmap
49:25 The Ups & Downs of Worldcoin
53:10 Reflecting on Worldcoin’s Critiques
56:10 What Does Worldcoin Need the Most?
56:50 Where Sam Stands on AI Alignment
59:20 Closing & Disclosures

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RESOURCES

Worldcoin Privacy Deep Dive
https://worldcoin.org/blog/developers/privacy-deep-dive

Worldcoin
https://worldcoin.org/

Alex Blania
https://twitter.com/alexblania

Sam Altman
https://twitter.com/sama

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0:00.0	The immediate reaction is like it freaks you out and you really need to understand the
0:04.1	engineering behind it to understand that I think none of these concerns actually rounded.
0:10.7	Welcome to Bankless, where we explore the frontier of internet money and internet finance.
0:18.5	This is how to get started, how to get better, and how to front run the opportunity.
0:22.1	This is David Hoffman, here without my co-host Rantran Adams, but we are here to help
0:25.7	you become more bankless.
0:28.2	Today on the show, we have two of the world coin founders Alex, Blania, and Sam Altman.
0:33.6	And we are exploring the world coin story, one of the more ambitious projects in the
0:37.3	crypto space.
0:38.3	And here's what you're going to learn in this episode.
0:40.5	First, what is the idea behind world coin?
0:43.8	What does it want to do for the world?
0:46.3	Second, what is actually inside of an orb?
0:49.5	Is it safe to put your eye into?
0:51.5	Third, world coin's answer to how it's providing privacy to those who get their iris scanned.
0:56.5	And why some people are still skeptical about it?
0:58.9	Fourth, what is world coin's identity platform?
1:01.4	And what can it do for Sam Altman's other company, OpenAI, and the incoming AI-enabled
1:06.6	internet that humanity appears to just be waltzing into?
1:09.8	Fifth, how world coin plans to become a permissionless protocol, including the manufacturing
1:14.0	and operating of the orbs themselves?
1:16.7	And sixth, lastly, we had to ask him what Sam Altman thinks of the AI alignment problem.
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