For critics, the ID process from Worldcoin is a privacy risk; for others it is financial security in the age of AI. We try it out
Worldcoin wants to prove I am “actually human”. At least that is the explanation a staff member gives for a cryptocurrency venture scanning my eyeball in a London office building.
Without the optical scan, Worldcoin will not verify your “humanness” – you could be a robot and you won’t get any crypto. Welcome to financial security in the age of artificial intelligence.
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