This is Worldcoin: Humanness in the age of AI
Summary
TLDRAlex Blania, CEO of Tools for Humanity, introduces World ID, a biometric verification system designed to authenticate human users on the internet, ensuring privacy and inclusivity. The Worldcoin project, which includes World ID, aims to create a decentralized digital currency, Worldcoin, and a non-custodial wallet app for easy transactions. The orb, a custom hardware device, plays a crucial role in verifying humanness at scale, while preserving privacy through three layers of protection. The Worldcoin Foundation, a nonprofit entity, manages the project to ensure decentralization and prevent single points of failure, with the ultimate goal of empowering every individual on the internet.
Takeaways
- 🧠 AGI is an inevitable development that will significantly alter the economy and the internet.
- 🛂 World ID is designed to serve as a 'human gate' to ensure that only actual humans can access certain parts of the internet.
- 💡 Alex Blania, CEO of Tools for Humanity, is a key contributor to the Worldcoin project, which aims to address the impact of AI on society.
- 🎨 AI is expected to create and enhance most of our interactions, offering personalized entertainment like songs and videos.
- 🚫 There's a need to prevent AI from unduly influencing public opinion, as it could be manipulated by certain interests.
- 🔑 World ID offers a biometric verification system that operates independently of governments and can scale to billions of users.
- 🌐 The orb is a custom hardware device that enables World ID by verifying humanness through biometric data.
- 💰 Worldcoin is a digital currency that provides ownership to everyone who verifies with World ID.
- 📱 The World App is a non-custodial wallet designed to facilitate easy money transfers and World ID verification.
- 🔍 The orb ensures privacy by performing checks on the device, separating biometrics from World ID, and generating disposable, app-specific IDs for user interactions.
- 🌐 Decentralization is crucial for Worldcoin's success, as it prevents any single entity from compromising the system.
- 🏛️ The Worldcoin Foundation, a nonprofit, manages the IP and aims to transition governance to all of humanity, promoting an open-source public good.
Q & A
What is the main purpose of World ID?
-The main purpose of World ID is to verify human identity on the internet, ensuring that only real humans can access certain parts of the internet.
Who is Alex Blania and what is his role?
-Alex Blania is the CEO of Tools for Humanity, one of the main contributing entities to the Worldcoin project.
What problem does World ID aim to solve?
-World ID aims to solve the problem of distinguishing real humans from bots or AI on the internet, especially in areas where human presence is critical.
What are the two fundamental components of the Worldcoin protocol?
-The two fundamental components are World ID, a biometric verification device, and Worldcoin, a digital currency given to individuals who verify their identity with World ID.
How does the Orb device contribute to World ID?
-The Orb device performs biometric verification, ensuring that a person is a real human and issuing a World ID certificate.
What are the three layers of privacy protection in World ID?
-The three layers are: 1) on-device checks by the Orb, 2) separation of biometrics from World ID, and 3) creation of disposable IDs for different apps.
Why is decentralization important for the Worldcoin project?
-Decentralization ensures that no single entity can control or compromise the system, making it resilient to external attacks and internal mismanagement.
What is the role of the Worldcoin Foundation?
-The Worldcoin Foundation, a nonprofit, controls the intellectual property of the project and ensures governance will eventually be in the hands of all humanity.
How does Worldcoin plan to distribute its digital currency?
-Worldcoin plans to distribute its digital currency to every verified human being, preventing multiple claims and creating a large network effect.
What potential societal benefit does World ID offer?
-World ID can serve as an open-source public good, providing a trustworthy way to verify human identity on the internet, which can accelerate many positive developments.
Outlines
🌐 Introduction to AGI and World ID
Alex Blania, CEO of Tools for Humanity, introduces the concept of AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) and its profound impact on the economy and the internet. He highlights the necessity for a 'human gate' on the internet, exemplified by World ID, a project aimed at verifying human presence online. World ID is underpinned by biometric verification through a device called the orb, capable of scaling to billions of users without government intervention. Additionally, World ID is complemented by a digital currency, Worldcoin, which users receive upon verification. The World App is introduced as a non-custodial wallet that simplifies the use of these technologies. The paragraph emphasizes the challenges of identifying real people on the internet and the importance of privacy preservation through biometric solutions.
🛡️ Privacy and Security in Worldcoin's Ecosystem
This paragraph delves into the privacy and security aspects of Worldcoin's ecosystem, focusing on the orb's role in verifying human identity without compromising privacy. The orb issues a 'proof of human certificate' or World ID, which users can use across various applications while maintaining their uniqueness. The system is designed with three layers of privacy protection: on-device checks by the orb, separation of biometrics from World ID, and the generation of disposable, app-specific IDs for each interaction. This ensures that while providing a persistent user experience, the system does not track or expose the user's activities across different apps. The paragraph also touches on the importance of decentralization in preventing a single point of failure and the role of the Worldcoin Foundation in controlling the IP and governance, with the ultimate goal of transitioning to a system governed by all of humanity.
Mindmap
Keywords
💡AGI
💡World ID
💡Biometric verification
💡Orb
💡Worldcoin
💡World App
💡KYC
💡Decentralization
💡Worldcoin Foundation
💡Privacy
💡Inclusivity
Highlights
AGI is going to happen and it will change how the economy operates and how the internet works in meaningful ways.
Certain parts of the internet will need a human gate to ensure only real human beings can enter.
World ID is a way to verify humanness at a population scale, independent of governments, able to scale to billions of people.
The World ID is a biometric verification device called the orb that verifies real human beings.
Worldcoin is a digital currency that everyone who verifies with World ID receives ownership in.
World App is the first app that connects to the protocol, allowing users to send money and verify with World ID.
The hardest part of building the Worldcoin network was figuring out who was a real person to let into the network.
Biometrics, specifically iris biometrics, are the only inclusive and secure way to verify unique humanness while preserving privacy.
The orb performs checks on device using neural networks, ensuring privacy by separating biometrics from World ID.
Each app gets a different version of your World ID, creating disposable IDs for privacy and preventing tracking.
Decentralization means there is no central party that can make the system fail, ensuring the integrity of the project.
The Worldcoin Foundation, a nonprofit, controls all the important IP to ensure governance will eventually be in the hands of humanity.
World ID can be a significant public good by allowing every individual to prove their uniqueness on the internet.
Once unique humanness is proven, a digital currency can be launched by giving ownership to every human being, bootstrapping a billion-plus people network.
The World ID and Worldcoin project aims to create a trusted, inclusive, and privacy-preserving digital ecosystem.
Transcripts
All right, so let's start off...
AGI is going to happen,
and it will change how the economy operates
and it will change how the internet works
in very meaningful ways.
So there are certain parts of the internet where we clearly need
a human gate, almost.
Like, you can only enter this if you're an actual human being,
otherwise please stay out of this.
And that is what World ID is
in its purest form.
I am Alex Blania. I am CEO of Tools for Humanity
which is the founding and one of the main contributing entities
to the Worldcoin project.
We believe that, and I think at this point it's fairly obvious,
that in the coming years
90 plus percent of everything we interact with and see will be
somewhat created or enhanced by AI.
That is a problem.
It's not a problem for everything.
Actually it's, it's very fun and cool for most things
because it's just very entertaining.
You will be able to create the perfect song
that you like just with kind of a simple ask.
You will be able to create the perfect video. So these are all great things.
But, there's other
parts of the internet, I think X or Twitter is actually a good example,
where it's not in all of our interest
if people with certain interests can influence broad public opinion
with tens of thousands of instances of AI that follow a certain idea.
But now we are in the situation where I
really do believe in the next two years we are faced with two options:
either we will enforce government KYC at a pretty large scale
for many things that we use,
or we use World ID.
So fundamentally on a protocol level it's, it's two things.
It is a way to verify humanness
truly at population scale, independent of governments,
able to scale to billions of people.
And that is what we call World ID,
which underlying is a biometric verification
device that we call the orb, that you see here,
that actually allows us to do that.
So that is World ID, that's building block one. And two
is a digital currency called Worldcoin that
everyone that actually verifies for World ID receives ownership in it.
That is the protocol level. And then also, to get all of this going,
we built the first app that connects to the protocol that we call World App
So that's a non-custodial wallet that lets you send money to your friends,
lets you verify with your World ID and kind of brings together many of the technologies
that came out of crypto in the last couple years and just makes them
very easy to understand and use.
So as we started building out the Worldcoin network, we realized that one of the hardest parts
if not the hardest, honestly,
was just going to be figuring out who was a real person and who
was not in the first place to let into the network.
So we researched for many many years, tried a lot
of different things. At the end of the day we came up with this idea of World ID,
which is a digital passport that allows you to
prove that you're a real human on the internet while preserving your privacy.
So when we set out to solve this problem of how do you figure out
what is a real and unique person,
we tried a bunch of different things that you can imagine.
Verifying people's emails and phone number,
verifying their official documents like a passport, doing complex algorithms
to have people endorse each other and a bunch of other things.
And at the end of the day you realize
that the only thing that is privacy preserving, inclusive
and honestly just actually secure is biometrics.
I know it sounds scary from, like, sci-fi novels, etc. Minority Report.
It turns out it's the only way to, in an inclusive manner that allows everybody in the world
to participate, to issue such a proof of unique humanness.
But within iris biometrics, we could have or
we thought of using existing devices.
Like, the last thing we wanted to do, as much fun as
it was to to build something like an orb.
Is...it's actually really really hard. It takes a lot of
time, and we thought about other ways to to do this but it turns out
that they are, they're not built
for the same purpose. So in the end we had to build a custom,
custom hardware device to actually
enable something like Worldcoin from both, like, an accuracy inclusivity perspective
as well as from,
from a security perspective. Essentially what the orb does is, like, it takes a look at everybody
who's coming, verifies that you're a real human, you're not wearing a mask, you're not a
display you're not a house cat, but a real human. Then it issues a proof of human certificate,
essentially, that we call World ID
and that you then own in in your app. And you can use it to
authenticate against different, or for different applications and prove
that you're a unique human.
Yeah so one of the most counterintuitive things about Worldcoin is that the orb and World
ID are not just private, but they're perhaps one of the most private systems at this scale
that have ever existed. And specifically there's three different layers of of protection of privacy
that I think is important to understand. Number one is, the orb is able to perform all of these
checks on device with different neural networks. The second layer of protection is the fact that
your biometrics are separate from your World ID. You can actually even have a World ID before
you visit an orb. What the orb does is it simply marks your World ID as verified. So when you do
go around using that World ID, it's completely separate from any biometric data. And then the third
layer of protection, it's actually quite similar to what Apple shipped a few years ago that actually
broken Facebook's entire advertising model. And so the way this works is, when you go around using
your ID with different World ID apps, you're not even sharing your actual ID. You're almost like
creating a disposable ID so that each app gets a different version of your ID, which they can
use to provide you a persistent experience, you can sign in and sign out, but they cannot see or
track anything you've done anywhere else with your World ID.
So with these three layers of
protection: the the fact that the orb is able to perform these checks on device, the fact
that your biometrics are not your identity, but only use to verify your World ID and the fact
that every time you're using your World ID, you're generating a different, disposable, app-specific ID,
just makes World ID, again, not just private,
but one of the most private things out there period.
So decentralization means
that there is no central party that can make the system fail.
That, that's fundamentally what it means.
And so, if I'm right. If I'm right with my
assumption that Worldcoin will be as a fundamental shift as I think it will be,
it is very very important
that there will not be a single entity, not me, not the Worldcoin Foundation, not anyone else that can
either be attacked externally, or internally come up with bad ideas or stupid ideas to compromise
the whole idea of the project. That's why it matters.
There is a nonprofit foundation
called the Worldcoin Foundation that is fully out of mine and Sam's control and that actually has
all of the IP. All of the important IP that has been created here is controlled by a nonprofit
foundation. And why does it exist? Why is it not a normal company? Fundamentally because all the
governance eventually will switch to be become all of humanity.
This idea that every individual
being able to prove to the internet that you're a unique human being will be kind of a big building
block of this. Because once you have solved that,
that is something that doesn't exist right now on the internet.
Once you have solved that, you can actually launch a digital currency by giving
ownership in it to every human being, because everyone can prove that they didn't claim a
share in it before.
And as a result, bootstrap a billion plus people network and trust that
kind of the size of the network and resulting network effects will accelerate many many things
in the world that we think are strictly good.
I do think World ID can actually do great
service to society by being an open source, actual public good that we can all understand
and we can trust.
And of course there's still a long way to go, but I think that's kind of where we're headed.
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