Equipment for humanity, the startup behind the World Human Verification Project, co-installed by OpenAII CEO Sam Altman, unveiled a mobile device on Wednesday, designed to help people determine the difference between humans and AI agents.
Rich Haley, the main equipment of humanity, and a former Apple Director, started Orb Mini device during his “final” program in San Francisco. The device looks like a smartphone, and there are two large sensors to scan the eyeballs of users.
A web3 project launched by the World, Altman and Alex Blania, earlier known as WorldCoin, is based on the idea that it would eventually be impossible to separate humans from AI agents on the Internet. To address this, the world wants to make digital “proof of human” tool; These announcements are part of its effort to sign up to millions.
After scanning your eyeball with your silver metal jewelry – or now, one of its orb minis – one of the world will give you a unique identifier on blockchain to verify that you are a human.
Orb Mini, in terms of company’s large ORB devices, is a familiar shape of a smartphone and designed to make it portable, a tool for a spokesman of humanity explained Techcrunch in a briefing. According to people familiar with the new product, Apple Mayorhoff, a former Apple designer helped designing Orb Mini.
The main objective of Orb Mini is to verify more people, not necessarily use apps, call, or send texts. However, the spokesperson said it is not clear what the final functionality of the device would be.
After the incident, Blania told Techcrunch that its purpose is to eventually convert Orb Mini into a mobile point-off-cell device, and perhaps also sell sensor technology to device manufacturers.
The equipment for humanity is also launching its world network in the US on Thursday, and will open a storefront in Austin, Atlanta, Los Angeles, Miami, Nashville and San Francisco. The store, which the world is already in other countries, is designed to come to people and scanned by a jewelry of their eyeball company.
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The world project claims that 26 million people have signed, and 12 million people are verified worldwide. Today, the company has a big presence in Latin America, South America and Asia – but the purpose of Wednesday’s announcement is to increase the project in the US.
While the company was highlighting the details about its Orb Mini, the device seems to attempt to distribute its verification equipment more widely. While the objectives of the world have moved over the years, Orb seems to be original for their mission.
An important question around moving around the world is whether it will be a day partner with other enterprises of Sam Altman, Openai. It is unclear whether Orb Mini will have any AI feature, or whether it belongs to the AI device is allegedly functioning OpenIAI.
