AI visionary Sam Altman is leading a project to distinguish real people from software fakes on the internet using eye scans. The World identification project, which uses eye scans to distinguish people from machines, is entering the money transfer and financial services business. Users can send money to friends and family free of charge via the World app and will have an account number for interactions with the banking system. The project aims to make it increasingly difficult to distinguish people from software online. Users create a profile called “World ID” using an eye scan on World scanners called Orb. As an incentive, World is launching its own digital currency. The project is also targeting online dating markets, such as gaming specialist Razer and dating platform operator Match Group. With these new functions, World is moving closer to the vision of a super app that covers all possible areas of everyday life, similar to WeChat in Asia. World, a web3 project started by Altman and Alex Blania that was formerly known as Worldcoin, is based on the idea that it will eventually be impossible to distinguish humans from AI agents on the internet. To address this, World wants to create digital “proof of human” tools; these announcements are part of its effort to get millions of people to sign up. After scanning your eyeball with one of its silver metal Orbs — or now, one of its Orb Minis — World will give you a unique identifier on the blockchain to verify that you’re a human.