Annie Minoff
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Jonathan says that flying is still statistically the safest way to travel. And he says he's been reassured by recent steps taken by the FAA. Last week, the FAA said that it's working to increase staffing levels at Newark. It's also adding temporary backup systems to prevent more outages and eventually new high-bandwidth connections between Philadelphia and New York.
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy also announced plans to upgrade air traffic control infrastructure nationwide. He said the Philadelphia facility overseeing Newark would be a priority in those plans.
What do you hope that people will take away from this interview and from hearing Jonathan?
That's all for today, Thursday, May 15th. The Journal is a co-production of Spotify and The Wall Street Journal. Additional reporting from Robert Barba, Alison Sider, and Bodhi Atwe. Thanks for listening. See you tomorrow.
Last week, a new storefront opened in San Francisco. Our producer Sophie Codner was there. And what brought you into the store today?
Nothing's sold at this store. And what's actually going on inside sounds pretty sci-fi. People are getting their eyes, specifically their irises, scanned by a device called the orb.
The orbs are metallic spheres about the size of volleyballs. Inside each one, there's a camera taking high-definition pictures of people's eyes. The goal is to create individualized online IDs for each person based on the unique patterns in their eyes. Did you get your eye scanned?
Okay, how'd it go?
All this eye scanning is part of a project called World. It's the brainchild of Sam Altman, the tech visionary and CEO of OpenAI. In Altman's view, what's happening in this San Francisco storefront could be part of the solution to a pressing problem, how to tell humans and AI apart.
Welcome to The Journal, our show about money, business, and power. I'm Annie Minoff. It's Friday, May 9th. Coming up on the show, Sam Altman's global project to tell man from machine. Have you seen one of these orbs or touched one?
My colleague Angus Barak has been following Sam Altman's eye scanning project. As the CEO of OpenAI, Altman's had a front-row seat to AI advances, including helping to create chatbots like ChatGPT that sound a whole lot like humans. And that's where Altman saw a potential problem.
How far away did he think that future was? Because it almost feels like it's here.
This man or machine problem has come up in all sorts of areas. On social media, in online dating, e-commerce, education, and gaming.
AI fakes are also becoming a problem in banking.
Altman says he wanted to help solve this problem. And to do it, he co-founded World.
So how does World plan to identify real humans on the internet? That is where the orbs come in. How does that process work? How does the scan happen?
World says it then deletes the pictures of your eye. The only thing it says it retains is that individualized code. That iris code can then link to something called a world ID, basically your online proof of humanness. I mean, isn't this just a fancy social security number? Like, why is it better than a passport or a password?
Not everybody in the world has a passport. Passports can be forged, and they're not standardized around the world. The world ID, on the other hand, could work for anyone, anywhere. Or at least that's the idea. And in Altman's kind of vision of the future, how are people using this code? Like, what's the scenario where I'm being asked to flash my world ID?
But World had a problem. How to get people to stand in front of an orb and get their eyeballs scanned.
But World had a solution for that, too. It would give people a little extra incentive to get scanned. The project developed its own cryptocurrency called WorldCoin.
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