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Regulators eyeball Worldcoin, Sam Altman's biometric crypto project

Worldcoin, a cryptocurrency project co-founded by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, has made waves this summer, enjoying millions of signups and raising $115 million, while other crypto startups struggle. But it's come under intense regulatory scrutiny, not least in France and Germany, over privacy concerns. We take a closer look in…

France 24

Sam Altman explains what’s wrong with Silicon Valley—and why OpenAI has no road map

OpenAI gave its researchers a “huge amount of freedom” rather than tightly controlling them, says Altman, and it paid off.

Fortune

ChatGPT boss Sam Altman granted Indonesia’s first golden visa

The AI kingpin will be able to come and go for up to 10 years without queuing at airports

Evening Standard

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Indonesia gives OpenAI CEO Sam Altman its first 'golden visa'

Indonesia recently unveiled a new five-year permit for those ready to invest $350,000 in Indonesian equities, deposits or bonds.

Fortune

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman first person to get Indonesian golden visa

OpenAI chief executive officer Sam Altman is the first person to get an Indonesian golden visa as Southeast Asia’s largest economy seeks to draw foreign investors.

The Times of India

Silicon Valley’s elites can’t be trusted with the future of AI. We must break their dominance–and dangerous god complex

Vivek Wadhwa and Vinita Gupta respond to Sam Altman's comments about India's AI prospects.

Fortune

ChatGPT creator OpenAI is reportedly earning $80M a month

The company started charging some users for ChatGPT earlier this year.

Fortune

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‘Very wonderful, very toxic’: how AI became the culture war’s new frontier

While the far right claims artificial intelligence has become too ‘woke’, experts argue it’s not a sentient being with its own viewpoints

The Guardian - US

The world has a big appetite for AI – but we really need to know the ingredients

Much ‘artificial intelligence’ harvests original creative work by humans. Regulators must demand transparency about training data

The Guardian - UK

ChatGPT's fate hangs in the balance as OpenAI reportedly edges closer to bankruptcy

The company is reportedly on the verge of bankruptcy. Predictions indicate that this could happen by early 2024.

Windows Central

Silicon Valley's latest hype: Eyeball-scanning silver orbs to confirm you're human

The project is called Worldcoin. It was co-founded by Sam Altman of ChatGPT fame. Its mission is to authenticate all the world's humans, one eyeball scan at a time.

WEKU

AI hysteria is a distraction: algorithms already sow disinformation in Africa

Forget ‘AI doomerism’ hype over ChatGPT, big tech’s colonial attitude lets hateful electoral propaganda be fed to millions

The Guardian - UK

Worldcoin is scanning eyeballs to build a global ID and finance system. Governments are not impressed

Millions of people worldwide are lining up to stare into a silver sphere about the size of a bowling ball so their irises can be scanned in exchange for online identity verification and “free” cryptocurrency.

The Conversation

Can A.I. companies move fast without breaking things?

The rapid, unfettered rise of social media taught the world some tough lessons. The stakes are even higher with A.I.

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PC Gamer

Hundreds sign up to ponder OpenAI founder's eye-scanning crypto orb despite data concerns

Who knew the processing of "sensitive data at a very large scale" might require a licence?

Tom’s Hardware

WorldCoin Attracts 2 Million Users, Hundreds Line-up To Stare at the Orb

Proof of Personhood can also net you a $50 return and promise you an anonymized world identity ID, there may be reasons to accept.

Zenger

Palantir CEO Says Our Generation’s Atomic Bomb Could Be AI Weapon

The controversy over the United States' use of an atomic bomb on Japan has been rekindled by "Oppenheimer."

Fortune

Kenya becomes the first country to suspend Sam Altman’s Worldcoin A.I.-crypto scheme

Worldcoin wants governments as customers, but they may not be so keen.

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The Independent UK

Chatbots sometimes make things up. Not everyone thinks AI's hallucination problem is fixable

Spend enough time with ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence chatbots and it doesn’t take long for them to spout falsehoods

The Week

Sam Altman: the OpenAI CEO leading the AI revolution

The launch of ChatGPT last November propelled OpenAI, and its co-founder and CEO Sam Altman, into the global spotlight.

Salon

Why utopian thinking is so dangerous

Futurist Monika Bielskyte on our dangerous addiction to utopia and dystopia — and how to build an inclusive future

Fortune

French privacy watchdog raises alarms over OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s “questionable” Worldcoin venture

The French agency CNIL said it initiated an investigation into the company.

The Guardian - UK

A new crypto firm wants to scan your eyeballs – should you look away?

For critics, the ID process from Worldcoin is a privacy risk; for others it is financial security in the age of AI. We try it out

Fortune

Microsoft, Google, and OpenAI just became charter members of what may be the first true A.I. lobby. Up next: Lawmakers write the rules

Here's a premise, says Mark Fagan, a lecturer at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Public Policy: "Everyone who walks into a policymaker's office is not an altruist."

The Guardian - UK

New cryptocurrency offers users tokens for scanning their eyeballs

Worldcoin, launched by CEO of ChatGPT developer OpenAI, says scheme will distinguish between ‘verified humans’ and AI

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