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Sama saw this coming a decade away, which is why he invested in Worldcoin (now World). At some point people (and agents) will be clamoring for human verification at the speed of technology.

I'm not a fan of World, but this is a portent of things to come. Spread the disease, sell the cure as they say.

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I think we need a similar technology to World being built by a more trustworthy company. The question is how trustworthy does one need to be for people to trust you with their very online identities that are literally needed for others to recognize them as human?

I think that this task will fall on governments.

Mostly because they already are responsible for systematizing documents that are needed to recognize us as citizens, land or car owners, etc.

Some laid back countries might allow companies to take and manage that function, but I don't think most of them would. Especially not in current landscape where people heard "you are the product" from all tech companies for the last 10 or so years.

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