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Monday, August 7, 2023

Will Technologists Save or Destroy Humanity?

Crypto’s Next Craze? Orbs That Scan Your Eyeballs.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/07/technology/worldcoin-iris-scans.html
Sam Altman, OpenAI’s chief executive, has started Worldcoin, a cryptocurrency project that aims to scan billions of human irises. 

Worldcoin trades cryptocurrency for eyeball scans, creating a global ID database and scaring the willies out of privacy experts.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/08/08/worldcoin-launch-kenya-suspension-france-investigation-sam-altman/

Behind AI, the return of technological utopias
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/united-states/article/2023/06/20/behind-ai-the-return-of-technological-utopias_6034482_133.html
The tech sector has seen personalities like Sam Altman, creator of ChatGPT, and Elon Musk return to promethean, even messianic stances. Their ideas, inspired by movements such as transhumanism and longtermism, are deemed dangerous by many.