https://newsletter.mollywhite.net/p/worldcoin-a-solution-in-search-of
"Having my eyeballs scanned by a shiny chrome orb so I can someday receive
cryptocurrency disbursements because artificial intelligence has stolen my job
sounds like something from the pages of a half-baked sci-fi novel. It also
sounds like the kind of operation that venture capitalists would value at over
a billion dollars.
The premise is simple, they say: As artificial intelligence becomes more
sophisticated, approaching the level of human-superior artificial general
intelligence, it will both create wealth and disrupt labor markets as human
workers are replaced by machines. It will also become increasingly challenging
to distinguish human from machine, as the current-day problem of bots mimicking
humans online is made worse by sophisticated AI fakes. Or at least, that’s
today’s problem. Check back in a month or two and see if it’s changed.
Worldcoin is, at the moment, a project to distribute cryptocurrency tokens
(also called Worldcoin, or WLD) to those who confirm they are human by having
their irises scanned by a custom piece of hardware that both captures its
subject’s unique iris “fingerprint” and performs biometric scans to ensure it’s
scanning a living, breathing human being and not a printout or some other fake.
That custom hardware just so happens to be a chrome orb that evokes HAL 9000."
Classic tech-bro fantasy.
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
