Alex Blania on Worldcoin, AGI, and Future Predictions

This week on Upstream, Erik is joined by Alex Blania, who, with Sam Altman, co-founded Tools for Humanity, the organization behind Worldcoin. Erik and Alex go deep on Worldcoin, AGI, and other future tech. To get Brave: Head to brave.com/brave-ads/ and mention “MoZ” when signing up for a 25% discount on your first campaign.
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LINKS:
Worldcoin: worldcoin.org/
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TIMESTAMPS:
(00:00) Intro
(00:36) WorldCoin: From AI to Cryptocurrency
(05:22) Solving the Proof of Identity Problem
(09:31) The Orb
(12:13) Sponsor - Brave
(13:56) Addressing Privacy Concerns and Misunderstandings of WorldCoin
(15:10) WorldCoin as the Largest Financial Network
(16:26) Navigating Controversies and the Future of WorldCoin
(19:25) On Building WorldCoin
(25:16) Engaging with Governments and the Global Landscape
(27:49) Safeguarding WorldCoin and the Influence of Vitalik Buterin
(30:30) Partnerships, Lessons from Sam Altman, and AGI's Future
(37:26) Exploring Other Game-Changing Technologies
(41:34) Wrap
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[@xdrjohnx]

14:17 the smirk and "You will be proven wrong relatively soon" = OpenAI has agents coming soon

[@if_it_pleases_the_council]

Seems a little bit disingenuous, suggesting 99% of concerns are around privacy invasiveness. While in actuality there are massive concerns around there being a pre-mine under the guise of funding for the dev team. OpenAI was supposed to be open source and non-profit, now we are to trust the same forked tongues with our financials?

[@electricrace]

“Concerns about privacy invasiveness” oh you mean what the government is doing and has been doing for YEARS? What corporations like Meta do? A Biometric hash based DID is the SOLUTION!

[@Jean-Luc-sh2pg]

he's so hot tho

[@dg-ov4cf]

alex why are you posting this on every worldcoin video

[@Jean-Luc-sh2pg]

@@dg-ov4cf worldcoin ... means everywhere in the world