Privacy regulators in several countries have been sniffing around Sam Altman’s Worldcoin project since it launched last week, but now one country has outright suspended it: Kenya.
Worldcoin is a very grand scheme with multiple facets. The ultimate aim is to provide a system through which people can prove they are humans and not A.I. To achieve this, Worldcoin is trying to entice people into having their eyes scanned by offering them a new cryptocurrency called WLD, which it has claimed may also “show a potential path for A.I.-funded universal basic income” (UBI) after A.I. takes lots of jobs. (The token is currently not available to those signing up in the U.S.)
