Sam Altman’s Worldcoin Takes On Fight Over Eye-Scanning Tech

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🗓️ 20 August 2024

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Open AI co-founder and CEO Sam Altman launched a project last year called Worldcoin, which uses iris-scanning technology and pays users in cryptocurrency. But governments around the globe are raising questions about how users' data is handled and how its algorithm is trained. WSJ reporter Angus Berwick joins host Zoe Thomas to explain. Sign up for the WSJ's free Technology newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:14.4	slash Wall Street.
0:19.4	Welcome to Tech News briefing. It's Tuesday, August 20th.
0:23.0	I'm Zoe Thomas for the Wall Street Journal.
0:25.8	Sam Altman, the co-founder and CEO of Open AI,
0:29.6	has become the figurehead of the artificial intelligence revolution.
0:34.0	At the same time, one of his other projects, World Coin, is aiming to save society from an AI-dominated world.
0:42.0	But governments around the globe are raising concerns
0:44.5	about World Coins efforts to scan the eyeballs of every person on earth and pay
0:49.6	them in cryptocurrency. Today we're bringing you that story.
0:54.0	Sam Altman's World Coin Initiative
0:58.8	says it's addressing a potential risk.
1:01.2	In a future where AI models might outsmart humans, how do you tell robots
1:06.0	and humans apart? But more than a dozen jurisdictions around the globe have suspended World
1:11.8	COIN's operations or looked into the way it handles user data.
1:16.0	Our reporter Angus Berrick is with us to talk through the project strategy and the regulatory issues it's facing.
1:22.0	So Angus, first off, how does the World
1:24.7	Coin project, which is made up of World Coin and a company called Tools for
1:28.7	Humanity work? How does it verify humanness? Well coin, so they've manufactured these kind of basketball sized
1:35.8	chrome orbs and within each orb there's a kind of very sophisticated
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