How Proof Of Human Could Change Social Media | Alex Blania On The A16z Show

a16z's Ben Horowitz and Erik Torenberg speak with Alex Blania, cofounder and CEO of Tools for Humanity, World, and cofounder of Merge Labs. World is building the largest real human network, a proof-of-human layer for the AI era. They cover the technical challenge of proving human uniqueness at scale using iris biometrics, the privacy architecture behind World ID, and why platforms from social networks to dating apps to video conferencing will soon require proof of human verification.

Timestamps:
0:00—Introduction
4:07—Three Big Ideas People Were Interested In
9:05—The Orb Verification Piece
15:21—Social Media Bots: PSYOPs and Propaganda
29:21—We Had Proof of Personhood for the Longest Time
36:44—Next Year Go-to-Market Is Focused on the US
40:09—Different Levels of Verification

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