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AI vs. ID: Proving human in a world of AI agents, bots, deep fakes, more

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Andreessen Horowitz

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4.466 Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2025

⏱️ 125 minutes

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Summary

We’re entering a world where AI – including AI agents, bots, deep fakes, and so on -- are changing the internet, very drastically. And so we will need proof of who’s human, or not, online – aka “proof of human". (This theme is also represented on the latest cover of Time magazine). Since the technology -- and network -- story here draws on both existing and new tech to help solve what’s actually a *very* difficult problem, we cover why it matters, go into some common questions, and finally how it all works under the hood.

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0:00.0

Hi, everyone. Welcome to this week's episode of Web3 with A6 and Z podcast. I'm Sonal, and today we're talking about a hot topic, which is also very evergreen because we're entering a world where AI, including AI agents, bots, deepfakes, and so on, are changing

0:22.3

the internet and our online lives very drastically. And so we will need proof of Hughes Human

0:27.9

or not online, aka proof of human, as Tools for Humanity and World app call it. The theme is

0:35.0

actually represented on the latest cover of Time magazine, which features

0:38.6

the tools for Humanity Orb, a ball-like hardware device that maps your eyes, iris code, to an app

0:44.4

on your phone to verify your human. It's actually only the fifth time in the past decade that

0:48.8

hardware tech's been on the cover. The other times are the iPhone, Oculus consumer drones,

0:53.1

and SpaceX. Since the technology and Oculus, consumer drones, and SpaceX.

0:59.5

Since the technology and network story here draws on both existing and new tech to help solve what's actually a very difficult problem. And in a way where privacy is by default,

1:04.8

we begin with the why it matters, then go into some common questions, and finally how it all

1:09.8

works under the hood.

1:11.2

Our expert guests are Eddie Lazarin, CTO at A6NC Crypto, Adrian Ludwig,

1:16.2

Chief Architect and CISO at Tools for Humanity, and Remko Blumen,

1:20.6

head of protocol at World.

1:22.1

As a reminder, none of the following is investment, business, legal, or tax advice.

1:26.8

Please see A6NZ.com slash

1:28.6

disclosures for more important information, including link to Elizabethar Investments.

1:37.9

You guys, welcome, super excited to have you.

1:40.8

Thanks. Looking forward to the conversation. Great to be here. I know. I am too. And we'll talk

1:45.2

about the technology in a moment. But before we talk about that, though, I'd love for you guys

1:49.5

to help do the kind of a lay of the land about the world we're about to enter with this changing

1:53.6

internet. Like, I don't think most people know how quickly and drastically our internet's going to be

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