Spend enough time in San Francisco, turns into the future of Cyberpunk, and you may find that strange things begin to look normal. Fleets Self -driving cars? Yawning. Emerging is trying to revive the Sufi mammoth? Certainly, why not. Calling the same similar artificial intelligence that can wipe humanity? Home.
You may find yourself, as you did on Wednesday night, standing in a crowded room in the Marina area, staring in a glowing white field known as the name CelestialAfter your eyebrows have been wiped in exchange for the cryptocurrency and something called the world’s identifier.
World hosted this event, San Francisco, which was co -founded by OpenAi, which has reached one of the most ambitious (or creeping technical projects, depending on your point of view) in modern memory.
The company’s primary stadium is: the Internet is about to be crossed with swarms of realistic artificial intelligence robots, which will almost make it impossible to know if we interact with real humans on social networks, dating sites, gaming platforms and other online spaces.
To solve this problem, World has created a program called World ID – you can think of it as clear or TSA precheck for the Internet – will allow users to check their online humanity.
For registration, users stare in the celestial offense, which collects an examination of their scents. Then they follow some guidelines on the smartphone application and receive a unique permeter identifier that is stored on their devices. there Baked privacy featuresThe company says it does not store the iris of the users, only a digital symbol that corresponds to them.
On the other hand, users receive an encrypted currency called WorldCOIN, which they can spend, and send it to world identity holders or trade for other currencies. (As of Wednesday night, the registration bonus valued at about $ 40.)
In this event, Mr. Altman Al -Alem put as a solution to the problem called “trust in the era of AGI” like Artificial general intelligence He said that the need for a mechanism that tells robots and human beings that they are close to human artificial intelligence systems.
Mr. Al -Taman said: “We wanted a way to make sure that humans remain distinguished and central in a world where on the Internet there was a lot of content that artificial intelligence moves.”
Ultimately, Mr. German and Alex Blanya, the world’s CEO, believes that something like WorldCOIN is needed to distribute revenues from strong artificial intelligence systems to humans, perhaps in the form of a Global basic income. They discussed various ways to create a “real humanitarian network” that would combine the human verification system with a financial payment system that would allow human beings to be verified to deal with people who have been verified by others-all of whom without relying on government identifiers or traditional banking system.
“The initial ideas were very crazy,” said Mr. Al -Taman. “Then we got to one who was a little crazy, which became the world.”
The project was launched two years ago at the international level, and a lot of its early jar was found in developing countries such as Kenya and Indonesia, where users Lined For celestial crime tests in exchange for encrypted currency bonuses. The company raised approximately $ 200 million of investors including Andressen Horowitz and Khosla Ventures.
There were some hiccups. The collection of vital data in the world faced opposition from privacy advocates and organizers, and the company was banned or investigated in places, including Hong Kong and Spain. There was also Reports on fraud and exploitation of workers Located to the project -based bonus system.
But it seems that it is growing quickly. Mr. Blanya said that nearly 26 million people have participated in the application of the world since its launch two years ago, and it has received more than 12 million heavenly crime tests to verify themselves as human beings.
The world remained outside the United States at the beginning, and a partial start that the organizers will be linked to its plans. But the Trump administration Policies of encryption Give her an opening.
On Wednesday, World announced that it had been launched in the United States and opened sellers in cities including San Francisco, Los Angeles and Winshchella, where new users can wipe their eyes and obtain the identity of the world. It plans to get 7500 grams in the country by the end of the year.
The company also revealed a new version of Orb, Orb Mini – which is not, in fact, the celestial body. Instead, it looks like a smartphone with glowing eyes, but it serves the same purpose of the larger device. World has announced partnerships with other companies including Razer, The Gaming Company and Match Group, a set of dating applications, which will soon allow Tinder users in Japan to check their humanity using their global identifiers.
It is not yet clear how none of this will earn money, or whether the Americans who are privacy will be excited to ignite their biometric data for some codes codes like people in parts of the world.
It is also not clear whether the world can overcome the basic doubts about how strange and wicked everything can feel.
Personally, I am sympathetic to the idea that we need a way to tell robots and humans. But the proposed reform in the world – a biometric global record, supported by a volatile encoded and supervised by a private company – may seem like the “Black Mirror” episode to reach the prevailing acceptance. Until Wednesday, in a room full of adopts eager early, I met many people who were hesitant to stare in the celestial body.
One of the technological workers told me: “I don’t easily abandon my personal data, and I consider my eyebrows data.”
The world’s association with Mr. Altman was also associated with scrutiny. During this event, a few skeptics indicated that by virtue of his position on the top of Openai, it to some extent feeds the problem-the Internet full of excessive protections-the world tries to solve it.
But Mr. Altman’s connection can also help globally, if it cooperates with Openai or integrates with AI products in a way. Perhaps the social network is Openai It is said to be a building You will only have a “checked humans” mode, or users who contribute to Openai products will be pushed one day in WorldCoin.
(New York Times prosecution Openai and its partner, Microsoft, claiming that copyright violation of news content related to artificial intelligence systems. Openai and Microsoft denied these claims.)
It is also completely possible that privacy criteria for the world will change and that what feels strange and evil today may be normalized tomorrow. (Remember how strange you felt the first time that you saw a clear booth at the airport? Did you promise that you will never surrender your vital data, then link it in the end and accept it as the cost of rest?)
When it was my turn to escalate the celestial offense, I removed my glasses, opened my world application and followed the instructions I gave me. (Look this way, look this way, retract a little.) Celestial crime cameras for a minute, and pick up the iris fabric. An episode about the celestial offense glows yellow, and comes out of a happy ringing.
After a few minutes, you are the world’s identifier and 39.22 WorldCOIN symbol. (The value of the distinctive symbols is $ 40.77 at today’s prices, and I will donate it to charities, once you know how to get them out of my phone.)
The examination of the celestial offense was quickly and painless, but I spent the rest of the night to feel mysteriously vulnerable – just as I just agreed to participate in a clinical trial of some new risky drugs without reading the potential side effects. But it seems that many in attendance do not have such concerns.
“What do I hide, anyway?” She said a social media named Hanna Stocking, as she ascended to take a celestial crime. “Who cares? Take everything.”
