OpenAI CEO Sam Altman walks on the House side of the U.S. Capitol on January 11, 2024, in Washington, D.C. OpenAI founder Sam Altman has been embroiled in a series of controversies about the company’s decision-making. Most recently , he incorporated actress Scarlett Johansson’s voice without her permission into ChatGPT. Yet before that, Altman helped launch a cryptocurrency project in 2021 called Worldcoin that scanned people’s eyeballs and collected biometric data in exchange for digital money. Despite controversy surrounding the project, Altman believed Worldcoin could enable a crypto-based global universal basic income (UBI), where people receive money on a […]
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