June 15, 2023· 51 min

The Eyeball-Scanning Plan Designed to Save Us From AI

Alex Blania

Orality

Model

89%

Highly oral (epic poetry, sermons, hip-hop)

Speaker Breakdown

HostTracy Alloway(2,156 words)

M:94%

HostJoe Weisenthal(1,433 words)

M:29%

GuestAlex Blania(5,124 words)

M:28%

Oral Indicators

Agonistic53%

basically, clearly, very

Engagement75%

you, our, your

Memory Aids100%

listen, like, now

Repetition100%

like (216x), it's (77x), that's (58x)

Parallelism98%

And I'm Tracy Alloway...., But what do you think is the w..., And people are like, I don't r...

Sound Patterns94%

88 question(s), alliteration: "markets move", alliteration: "barclays brief"

Formulaic Phrases9%

you know what, i mean, the thing is

Literate Indicators

Hedging9%

may, maybe, somewhat

Passive Voice5%

being used, been solved, was motivated

Abstract Nouns17%

investment, community, business

Subordination7%

because, although, while

Sentence Length32%

Avg: 13.0 words/sentence

Word Complexity46%

investment, analyze, anticipate

Academic Markers0%

Impersonal Style25%

704 personal pronouns found

Descriptive Style100%

apply, basically, clearly

Description

There are all kinds of societal concerns emerging out of the rise of artificial intelligence. Will it put us all out of work? Will fraudsters be able to use deepfakes — technology that can replicate our images and our voices — to scam us? We're in uncharted territory and nobody knows for sure how society will negotiate these risks. While many people are familiar with ChatGPT, its founder Sam Altman also co-founded Worldcoin, which aims to mitigate these risks. Enter: The Orb, an eyeball-scanning device that could provide everyone with a unique personal identifier. Think a global social security number, except you never have to share what it is with anyone. On this episode, we speak with Alex Blania, the CEO and co-founder of Tools For Humanity, the developer behind the Orb and the Worldcoin project, on his company's vision for how this tech can be used for things like proving one's humanness or collecting a Universal Basic Income in a world where AI predominates. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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