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Altman is the CEO of OpenAI. He built the flood. Now he’s selling the ark.
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World, Sam Altman’s digital identity project, just unveiled World ID 4.0, what the company calls “full-stack proof of human” infrastructure.
The partner list: Tinder, Zoom, DocuSign, Shopify, Okta, AWS, and Vercel.
Altman opened by saying we’re heading to a world where AI generates more content than humans. Pantera Capital says we’ve already crossed that threshold. World’s answer is an iris-scanning device called the Orb that creates a unique cryptographic ID proving you’re a real person. 18 million people across 160 countries have already verified.
Tinder is rolling out “verified human” badges in the U.S. after a Japan pilot. Zoom built a feature called “Deep Face” that verifies the person on a video call isn’t a deepfake. DocuSign is adding proof-of-human checks to digital signatures. Shopify is enabling verified-human commerce.
The most significant announcement is AgentKit, infrastructure that lets AI agents carry cryptographic proof they’re acting on behalf of a verified human. Okta built an agent delegation system on top of it.
The problem World is solving is real. The question is whether a centralized iris-scanning identity layer controlled by the same person whose company helped create the problem is the right answer.
Altman is the CEO of OpenAI. He built the flood. Now he’s selling the ark.
Donald Trump has fired the entire National Science Board, all 24 members, all at once. The board was responsible for deciding which scientific projects America should pursue and helping to direct the nation’s technological future.
Megalomaniacs How the Tech World Turned Evil
Once upon a time, they were counterculture idealists bringing power to the people. Today they’re greedy monopolists who’d sooner destroy our democracy than be reined in by government in any way—and they have to be stopped.
Tech lords’ ferocious opposition to government interference reflects a collective financial investment in AI that’s quite literally unprecedented within the private sector.
The stakes have pushed Silicon Valley into the arms of the GOP.
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