Sam Altman made back (finally, in the sense that he could not take more than that pull and spring): after months of floors, statements, clashes with Elon Musk, and some legal scratchers, Openii announced that he will remain under the control of his non-profit structure, so the division for profit will be converted into a “public utility company”. Which sounds like an oxymoron but makes curriculum. “We decided so after talking to civic representatives and general prosecutors,” said Altman. Translated: we thought about it, and it is better for us to look good still a little.
But while Openai keeps his feet in the social, Altman keeps his eyes … everywhere. Literally. His parallel project, Worldcoin, starts from a question that seems to have come out of an episode of Black Mirror: how do we know, in twenty years, if we are talking to a human or artificial intelligence? The answer: we scan the iris (among other things, remember, the Ai manages to distinguish if a retina is male or female, only that those who have trained it still cannot understand how it does).
Feel here: Worldcoin has created metal spheres as large as a basketball ball that look you in the eyes and generate a unique code, the “World ID”. It is your digital passport, biometric test that you are a real person and not a chatbot with access to too many gifs. Nobody can replicate it, unless you clone your eye (and that, for now, is not cheap).
The idea is: today we seem forward, however tomorrow we will no longer recognize those who are human (and this tomorrow is not so far). Better to prepare. Alex Blania, co -founder of the project, said that “there will be very intelligent and difficult to distinguish online entities from people”. It does not specify if it refers to Twitter users or to new generation linguistic models, in any case the concept is clear.
Of course, it may seem exaggerated to talk about these risks today, but it is also true that ten years ago nobody thought that a bot could respond to an email better than us, now it does. Maybe with some hallucination here and there, but we are almost there: better to start saving the tests we are alive.
Thus Altman on the one hand preaches responsibility, on the other he scands eyes for the good of digital humanity. He is not a villain, he is not a savior, he is one who is moving, like everyone else, for a reality that changes too quickly even for those who are at the top of change.
We do not take ORWELL and apocalyptic dystopian visions out: rather, in the future, if you want to remain human, you
It is better to have at least one document that proves it. Better if techno-biological and encrypted. Not that it is such a shocking thing: our iPhones are already protected by the faceid, to be scanned we have been used to for some time.