Furthering the dystopian rollout.

Worldcoin, a controversial biometric cryptocurrency and digital ID project founded by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, works using biometric data contained in people’s irises and also operates something called World ID – a digital way to prove someone’s identity.

Now, the idea is – despite a rising number of questions and misgivings about the platform, specifically about the privacy protections (or alleged lack thereof) and whether some categories of people are taken advantage of in some situations – to extend the use of the global digital ID system to social welfare users.

Worldcoin continues to maintain and reiterate that the reason for its existence is to help create more equal opportunities in the world, and apparently, one (if not the necessary, from their point of view) way to do it is to contribute to “building the world’s largest identity and financial network, along with infrastructure that gives access and ownership to everyone.”