Have you ever wondered if you are talking to a real person online or just another bot? As bots increasingly outnumber humans on the internet, there has been an explosion of deepfakes and AI-driven fraud. One company is proposing a solution that seems like science fiction: scanning your iris to verify your identity.
On a recent episode of the TechCrunch Equity podcast, Rebecca Bellan spoke with Adrian Ludwig, the Chief Security Officer and Chief Architect at Tools for Humanity. This is the company behind the Worldcoin eye-scanning Orbs that are appearing around the globe. Their conversation covered the development of privacy-first identity verification. They also discussed the open-source approach to this biometric technology and why proving you are human matters more now than ever before.