Worldcoin, Sam Altman's mysterious crypto project

How do we define Worldcoin, a project whose ambition is at least as great as the vagueness that surrounds it?

For most of the specialists we interviewed for this survey, many agree in presenting it as a kind of "protection" in the face of the dazzling progress of artificial intelligence (AI).

The aim of the Worldcoin project - in all modesty - is to offer every human the means of proving that they are not a machine thanks to a digital identity whose data is derived from the iris of their eye. Without talking about a digital identity card, we can talk about a "proof of human personality" (Proof-of-Personhood, PoP).

The subject has become all the more crucial in recent months as new technologies, especially artificial intelligence, raise fears of a certain confusion between Man and machine. How do you know if someone is really who they say they are on the web?

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