1. Worldcoin
The winner of Altman’s weird investment round-up is Worldcoin, a cryptocurrency startup that plans to scan people’s eyeballs to create unique personal identifiers that can then be linked to a “global currency.” Altman co-founded this company and has been in the process of raising more money for its expansion. As someone who reads about a lot of bizarre stuff on a daily basis, I have to say that Worldcoin’s vision for the future ranks highly on the dystopia scale. In essence, it wants to create a global digital currency that people all over the world can buy into and use. However, to do that, scans your eyeballs using something called “the Orb.” It then creates a unique digital identifier from the unique layout of your iris, which is then tied to your cryptocurrency account. People have noted that this seems like a creepy privacy nightmare and they are not wrong. I prefer to leave my irises unscanned and will just keep using my debit card, thank you very much.
Score: Most obviously “New World Order”-type creepy shit. Doesn’t help that Sam likes to go to those annual Bilderberg meetings.
