{"id":164019,"date":"2023-05-16T14:23:58","date_gmt":"2023-05-16T19:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/openai-ceo-raising-100-million-to-scan-every-eyeball-on-earth"},"modified":"2023-05-16T14:23:58","modified_gmt":"2023-05-16T19:23:58","slug":"openai-ceo-raising-100-million-to-scan-every-eyeball-on-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/openai-ceo-raising-100-million-to-scan-every-eyeball-on-earth","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI CEO Raising $100 Million to Scan Every Eyeball on Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/openai-ceo-raising-100-million-to-scan-every-eyeball-on-earth2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\ude00 \ud83d\ude0d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, apparently has more up his sleeve than <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/openai-ceo-predicted-end-world-huge-wealth\" class=\"\">bringing about the AI apocalypse<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/f1de2aee-ee13-45e1-bd61-0a269cd650d3\" class=\"\"><em>Financial Times<\/em> reports<\/a>, Altman is in advanced talks to secure around $100 million for Worldcoin, another of his ventures.<\/p>\n<p>Worldcoin\u2019s promise is hazy at best, but seems to involve scanning everybody\u2019s eye and giving them some amount of crypto. The <a href=\"https:\/\/worldcoin.org\/blog\/announcements\/introducing-world-app\" class=\"\">project\u2019s verbiage<\/a> invokes OpenAI\u2019s vision of powerful automation that will lead to an era of plenty, promising it will usher in a \u201cpath to AI-funded UBI.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ud83d\ude00 \ud83d\ude0d Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, apparently has more up his sleeve than bringing about the AI apocalypse. As the Financial Times reports, Altman is in advanced talks to secure around $100 million for Worldcoin, another of his ventures. Worldcoin\u2019s promise is hazy at best, but seems to involve scanning everybody\u2019s eye and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164019\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}