<ul><li>Tools for Humanity, co-founded by OpenAI’s Sam Altman, is introducing its ID services to the UK through its World Network project, deploying iris-scanning 'Orb' devices for creating unique digital IDs to differentiate humans from AI and prevent fraud.</li><li>The spherical Orb devices will be placed at various World premises in cities like London and later in other cities such as Manchester, Birmingham, Cardiff, Belfast, and Glasgow, with plans to increase production and enable self-serve usage similar to ATMs.</li><li>The World ID created through the iris scans can currently be used to access applications like Minecraft, Reddit, and Discord, with millions of IDs already generated in several countries globally and expansion plans announced for six US cities.</li><li>Tools for Humanity, facing privacy concerns, ensures that personal data remains on the user's smartphone, not on external servers, and intends to distribute over 12,000 Orb devices in the next year to scale up ID verifications drastically, supported by substantial venture capital funding.</li></ul>

Sam Altman’s World Network Brings Iris-Scanning ‘Orb’ To UK

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