You might think that, come the artificial general intelligence, humanity will enjoy a world of unlimited abundance and prosperity for all, beyond money, under the watchful sensors of the superintelligent AI.
But Silicon Valley bros talking up the Singularity still want to win at capitalism. So alongside OpenAI, Sam Altman’s other big project is a cryptocurrency called Worldcoin — which just rebranded to World Network, or World for short, to slightly reduce the coiner stench.
Altman gives away worldcoins free! He’s just nice like that, see. He makes sure coins only go to individuals by … collecting scans of their eyeballs.
Now, you might think Worldcoin was some sort of crypto pump-and-dump with a sideline in exploitable personal data.
This one’s written for the AI haters in particular — though it’s a crypto post at heart — so it’s over at Pivot to AI.
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