Sam Altman's plan for Web3

AI has often been portrayed as stripping humans out of the workplace, replacing people with bots. However, the biggest name in AI - Sam Altman, CEO of ChaptCPT - is on a journey of countering this effect with Web3 through Worldcoin, recently rebranded as World (a Web3 AI biometric system), and its supporting ecosystem. World aims to create a universal “proof of personhood” system to distinguish humans from AI bots, addressing a critical challenge as AI-generated content and deepfakes proliferate.

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By leveraging blockchain technology, World provides a decentralised identity layer that enables secure, privacy-preserving verification without relying on centralised databases. Altman has envisioned World as infrastructure for distributing universal basic income (UBI) in an AI-dominated job market, ensuring funds reach verified humans among many other things, which include:

· privacy-first digital identity - unlike centralised systems, Worldcoin’s decentralised identity uses zero-know…