Last year, a foundation called Tools for Humanity went on tour to show off its eye-scanning Orb. The metallic globe—an actual, physical orb—was one part of a process where citizens would someday use their biometric information to verify their humanity.
The project, called Worldcoin, might have been written off as another techno-utopian project bound to fail had it not had one name attached to it: Sam Altman, the cofounder and CEO of OpenAI, one of the most dramatic tech companies of the modern era. An inkling of Worldcoin began in 2019 when Altman began exploring identity verification that could be used in universal basic income schemes.
He teamed up with technologist
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