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I had had a couple conversations with Sam about what he was trying to achieve at Tools for Humanity.

Tools for Humanity is the company that essentially programs to World, which was once called World Coin, and has World ID.

World ID is kind of like a digital passport you hold on your phone that you can use to prove that you're a unique human being and not a bot or an algorithm.

It sounds like a simple thing, but it's a really incredibly valuable basic building block of AI.

And it also has a chain, a world chain associated with it.

And I was like...

Well, what about, you know, this and what about that? And he's like, those are just Internet,

like, call them what you will, but they just they still use the World

It came out of nowhere, the screening of your retinas at the airport.

And this goes back also to OpenAI and WorldCoin and a lot of this stuff.

But people don't even question that they're doing that.

And I think like, did you not see in Minority Report that Tom Cruise cut out his eyeballs because his retinas were used as fingerprints in the future and all of this? So people have given a lot of their private information willingly and openly, just like You know, a lot of people still don't understand that DARPA and In-Q-Tel created Facebook.

So I think, you know, it's not a tenable situation to expect users everywhere to hang on to kind of very valuable keys.

Like one end game is the WorldCoin end game.

And the WorldCoin end game would be everyone has a kind of physical level of authentication on their device, and then they use that for transactions.

And so you would need to have this kind of, you know, both sides, you know, pseudonymous, but, you know, you have this ability.

I think there is an ultimate end game, I feel.

Our Zoom, the platform I use for this show, is introducing proof of humanity, proof of human verification capabilities associated with world ID.

The identity technology developed by the world ecosystem.

It brought you WorldCoin.

The idea is straightforward as AI becomes more capable of generating convincing video and audio impersonation.

I'm telling you, I'm talking to you right now, but it could be my deepfake.

Well, So the distinction between verifying a person and essentially storing their biometric information, I would say that's crucial.

We shouldn't assume that the two are equal.

Nevertheless, the governance question remains, who controls the verification infrastructure? Does WorldCoin do it? What happens if the credentials are compromised? Can someone challenge an incorrect determination about somebody? If you say that my name is Joe Smith and I'm saying my name is Jamil Hasan and you're claiming I'm Joe Smith, do I need to verify that I'm Jamil Hasan and what do I show you that I am, right? What alternatives exist for people who cannot or do not want to participate? And here's the bigger issue, right? So, Today, a verification badge might be optional.

Yeah, and that's that orb of Sam Altman that we briefly talked about.

You get a world ID, digital passport, WorldCoin is what the name of their digital currency is.

They give you $42 in WorldCoin, $42 US dollars in WorldCoin as an incentive.

And they're bringing them to the US.

They tested them already.

The market is aggressively demanding utility.

Perfect example of this is Worldcoin, trading under the ticker WLD.

Yes.

Worldcoin is fascinating.

Their newsletter update highlights how they are finding massive relevance right now, not as a speculative currency, but as an actual defense against artificial intelligence.

With the massive surge in AI-generated deepfakes, Worldcoin's identity verification technology is securing major adoption by platforms like Zoom, Tinder, and even traditional financial institutions.

Yeah, it makes sense because it is solving a uniquely modern problem.

How do you definitively prove you are a human being on the internet when an AI can perfectly mimic your voice, your face, and your writing style?

It's awesome.

Um, well, we announced what we call World ID for finance.

Mm.

So it's a new stack of financial product, of products, uh, that bring trust to, like, your banks or i- or investment firms, where, like, the risk with AI are getting really high, right? And so specifically, there is a new, um, a new plugin, uh, that we've built with Zoom, an integration, where when you're having a Zoom call, you can actually h- get, like, a verified blue badge to prove that you're not a deep fake, right? Which is, like, super important for many use cases we can get into.

Uh-huh.

Uh, we are also doing some updates to our agent kit.

So as agentic finance and just agents, uh, continue to grow, you can use World ID to prove that you're a good bot rather than a bad bot.

And then we're also upgrading our consumer product to World ID app, uh, to bring all of these things to consumers.