{"id":171711,"date":"2023-09-10T04:26:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-10T09:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/why-go-with-an-evil-looking-orb"},"modified":"2023-09-10T04:26:00","modified_gmt":"2023-09-10T09:26:00","slug":"why-go-with-an-evil-looking-orb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/why-go-with-an-evil-looking-orb","title":{"rendered":"Why Go With an Evil-Looking Orb?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VtvjbmoDx-I?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>But OpenAI isn\u2019t Altman\u2019s only project, and it\u2019s not even his only project with ambitions to change the world. He is also a co-founder of a company called <a data-event-element=\"inline link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.toolsforhumanity.com\/\">Tools for Humanity<\/a>, which has the lofty goal of protecting people from the economic devastation that may arise from AI taking human jobs. The company\u2019s first major project is Worldcoin, which uses an evil-looking metallic orb\u2014called the Orb\u2014to take eyeball scans from people all over the world.<\/p>\n<p>Those scans are converted into unique codes that confirm you are a real, individual human, not a bot. In the future, this will theoretically grant you access to a universal basic income parceled out through Worldcoin\u2019s cryptocurrency, WLD. (You will want this because you will not be able to find work.) More than 2 million people in 35 countries have been scanned already, according to Tools for Humanity\u2019s <a data-event-element=\"inline link\" href=\"https:\/\/worldcoin.org\/world-id\">World ID<\/a> app. Although it\u2019s not yet available in the United States, the WLD token has been distributed elsewhere, and the company has also <a data-event-element=\"inline link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/2022\/04\/06\/1048981\/worldcoin-cryptocurrency-biometrics-web3\/\">recruited users<\/a> through cash incentives in countries such as Indonesia and Kenya.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But OpenAI isn\u2019t Altman\u2019s only project, and it\u2019s not even his only project with ambitions to change the world. He is also a co-founder of a company called Tools for Humanity, which has the lofty goal of protecting people from the economic devastation that may arise from AI taking human jobs. The company\u2019s first major [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1761,39,1878,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cryptocurrencies","category-economics","category-employment","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171711","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\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171711\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}