Iris scans: proof of our humanity in an AI future, or marketing gimmick? – podcast

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Madeleine Finlay speaks to the Guardian’s technology reporter Hibaq Farah about Worldcoin, a new cryptocurrency offering users tokens in exchange for a scan of their eyeballs. Farah explains what the motives behind the company are, why they think we all need to become ‘verified humans’, and how governments have responded to the project

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Clips: Worldcoin, DW News

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The Guardian's Hibaq Farah gets her eyeball scanned using an orb by cryptocurrency company Worldcoin. (Photograph by David Levene)
Photograph: David Levene/The Guardian

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