OpenAI CEO launches New Cryptocurrency
Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, announced today a new kind of cryptocurrency he's launching called Worldcoin:
It's unique because it uses an eye scan to initially give everyone in the world a piece to own some of the coin themselves.
I'm not sure if this company has anything to do with OpenAI … will becoming a crypto billionaire help pay for AI inference server costs? Maybe, but it's probably not why Sam is doing all this. Will Worldcoin be used to distribute the financial benefits of AI broadly and equitably to the world? I really don't know, but possibly.
I don't know why he would do this. Solving AGI seems a lot more important to me than another crypto “get rich scheme” and also I think Sam is a really smart guy, so he definitely deserves the benefit of the doubt here.
I will say this - there's something about this company, its copy, and language that feels eerily similar to OpenAI's brand. I'm not sure if this is the same design consultant, or a heavy inspiration from the OpenAI website, or Sam's signature “look”/voice for tech products but the two companies do look highly related here. Just putting it out there.