The Eyeball-Scanning Plan Designed to Save Us From AI

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🗓️ 15 June 2023

⏱️ 55 minutes

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There are all kinds of societal concerns emerging out of the rise of artificial intelligence. Will it put us all out of work? Will fraudsters be able to use deepfakes — technology that can replicate our images and our voices — to scam us? We're in uncharted territory and nobody knows for sure how society will negotiate these risks. While many people are familiar with ChatGPT, its founder Sam Altman also co-founded Worldcoin, which aims to mitigate these risks. Enter: The Orb, an eyeball-scanning device that could provide everyone with a unique personal identifier. Think a global social security number, except you never have to share what it is with anyone. On this episode, we speak with Alex Blania, the CEO and co-founder of Tools For Humanity, the developer behind the Orb and the Worldcoin project, on his company's vision for how this tech can be used for things like proving one's humanness or collecting a Universal Basic Income in a world where AI predominates.

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0:30.0	I'm Akshatrati and this summer on my podcast zero, I'm doing a series about climate storytelling, how we talk about climate change and what it means for how we confront it.
0:40.8	This week, I'm interviewing Dorothy Fortenberry, executive producer of Extrapolations and Apple TV Climate Show.
0:47.6	All of the current shows on TV that are taking place right now that don't portray climate change, those are the science fiction shows.
0:54.7	Listen to zero on the iHeart Radio app or wherever you get your podcasts.
1:10.4	Hello and welcome to another episode of the Oddlots podcast. I'm Joe Weisenthal.
1:15.8	And I'm Tracy Alloway. Tracy, do you remember a few weeks ago or maybe a couple of months ago now, someone made a like a fake AI version of the Oddlots podcast and they like replicated our voice.
1:28.1	Yes, I think they use chat GPT to do it. I mean, basically asked chat GPT to create a script for all plots.
1:34.8	And then we had someone replicate another app or something replicate.
1:38.7	It wasn't a someone like, I mean, it was like someone like other like AI app is like, yeah, it was pretty, it was pretty good.
1:45.2	It was like good. I mean, it clearly like was not us.
1:48.6	How much did it worry you, Joe? I think I'm more of an AI Doomer Warrior than you are.
1:54.0	Interesting. I mean, I have concerns. Don't get me wrong. But what do you think is the worst case scenario? Is it robots taking over the world?
2:01.1	No, I think that like in a couple of years, the AI will do a really good job of making the Oddlots podcast and people will say,
2:09.4	I don't really need to listen to Joe and Tracy anymore. The AI is, I don't know. I'm like, you know,
2:13.9	I, but I feel like maybe that's a little paranoid.
2:16.6	No, I feel like there is reason for concern. I hope maybe I'm just being an optimist here.
2:20.9	I hope we are a few years away from the Oddlots replicate.
2:24.4	I know, but I want to do this for like another 30 years.
2:26.8	I don't want to just have like three or four years or a few years.
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