Prove You’re Human – Have Your Eyes Scanned

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s identity startup ‘World’ has begun its rollout in the United States, introducing 20,000 biometric devices known as Orbs that scan users’ irises to confirm they are human.

From Worldcoin to World

World began life in 2019 as Worldcoin, a startup co-founded by Sam Altman and Alex Blania through their company Tools for Humanity. Its original mission was to create a global digital identity system and one that could reliably distinguish real people from bots, fake accounts, or AI-generated personas online.