Worldcoin: an Orb on Demand for Nearly Everyday Humans to Order Identified Metrics and Detect Identities
Heley said that Orb on Demand would let people order Orbs much like a pizza they would have delivered to their apartment. The Orb is coming to a number of countries including Costa Rica, Brazil, Indonesia, and Australia.
The Orb has a new look. Tools for Humanity said it provides nearly 5X theai performance for faster identity verification. This doesn’t make it less weird.
“We need more orbs, lots more orbs, probably on the order of a thousand more orbs than we have today,” Tools for Humanity chief device officer Rich Heley said during the keynote.
Today, in an airy space in San Francisco’s Mission District, Altman and Blania presented their latest vision for Worldcoin, now rebranded to the World Network, or World for short. The event included keynote presentations, new hardware, promises of expanded services, and hands-on (eyes-on?) time with the new product, like an Apple event if the Apple designers had just returned from an ayahuasca retreat. (The Wi-Fi password for the event: IntelligenceAge.)
He and Alex Blania worked to turn the idea into a reality. In a world of rapidly advancing AI, they theorized, it would be important for a human to prove they were not a bot. The answer they came up with relied on individuals using iris-scanning tech to generate private tokens that would verify their identities around the world.
A spokesperson for Tools for Humanity said all event attendees can have their iris scanned today, and 500 attendees will receive a new Orb when it ships in 2025.
World Changing the Name and Changing Orb Device for Authentication of Humanness In The Age of AI: Observing Data Collection Practices in Hong Kong and Spain
Last year, World was suspended due to an investigation of it’s data collection practices. Hong Kong asked World to stop all operations in the country over privacy risks, while both Portugal and Spain have also taken action against the project.
World says it has verified nearly 7 million “unique humans” so far, despite privacy concerns about building a privately operated global database based on biometrics.
People registered to the system will get a WorldID that they can use to prove their humanness online as well as a share of theWLD token.
Worldcoin, the cryptocurrency / human identity network / UBI project co-founded by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, is now known as World. Along with the name change, World introduced an updated version of its eyeball-scanning Orb device which is designed to solve a problem that does not currently exist: authenticating that someone is human “in the age of AI.”
