The Sam Altman identifier project is launched in 6 American cities

Openai CEO Sam TamanThe US -controlling general survey project makes its first appearance in the United States on Thursday.

Altman participated in the founding of “World” in 2019-known as WorldCOIN until last year-to create a global system to check identity for people, using IRIS and Blockchain tests to perfectly fight fraud and robots.

Here’s how to do: you can climb to the celestial body, and a spherical biometric device, spends about 30 seconds to wipe your face and Iris, then you create and store a unique “IrisCode”, which checks that you are a human being and that you have not registered before. Next, you can get some of the project cryptocurrency, WLD, for free, and you can use your world identifier as entering with integrated platforms, which currently include Minecraft, Reddit, Telegram, Shopify and Discord.

Starting on Thursday, the company opens six main retail sites in the United States, where people can subscribe to an article in their eyes: Austin, Atlanta, Los Angeles, Nashville, Miami and San Francisco.

In an event in San Francisco on Wednesday, the project announced two high -level partners: Visa This summer, the World Visa Card will be provided, only available to people who have been scanned by the world, and online dating giant The match group An experimental program for a global identity test and some age verification tools will start with Tinder In Japan.

Altman spoke at a global event on Wednesday, but the company’s representative said that integration with Openai was not in business at the present time.

One of the disputes surrounding the world is related to data storage.

The project maintains some personal data for fraud purposes, to ensure that people are not impossible or deceiving the system. But investors in the project, in addition to his team members, say that the data is not central and impossible to reverse engineering-unlike the usual unknown data, which can cancel the identity and identify someone.

Adrian Ludwig, chief information security official at Tools for Humanity, a key contributor in the world, said in an interview that the project divides the data of individuals stored between multiple parties, such as “two different financial institutions” and some Blockchain institutions.

“The way I always think is that we were very surprised when Panama’s leaves were stormed and leaked,” said Ludwig. “We are concerned about this type of position, so we do not have one place that contains all sensitive data. We have divided it through many companies and institutions that they keep, and we use encryption to keep it separate. You must all settle at one time.”

Since its foundation, Humanity tools Altman, which was established behind the global project, has gathered more than $ 140 million in financing from investors including Andressen Horowitz, Coinbase And the co -founder of the co -founder LinkedIn Red HoffmanThe company granted a billion dollars ’evaluation as of 2021, the last year of evaluation.

So far there are 26 million people on the network throughout Europe, South America, Asia and the Pacific, with 12 million verification, according to a representative of the world, adding that its goal is to expand one billion people. It moves slower than expected, although: In 2021The project’s goal was to expand the scope of one billion people by 2023.