WorldCoin: Evil's March Continues - We Are The Watchmen Weekly, August 17, 2024
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WorldCoin: Evil’s March Continues
Regular readers of We Are The Watchmen Weekly are familiar with the story of WorldCoin - the “ID technology” backed, in large part, by OpenAI founder Sam Altman (OpenAI is the creator of ChatGPT.)
Last year, we did a deep dive into what WorldCoin is - and isn’t - to help believers understand the dangers:
Earlier this week, Sam Altman, the co-founder of AI technology ChatGPT, officially launched WorldCoin, a cryptocurrency project.
When speaking about WorldCoin, Altman made the following statement:
If successful, we believe WorldCoin could drastically increase economic opportunity, scale a reliable solution for distinguishing humans from AI online while preserving privacy, enable global democratic processes, and eventually show a potential path to AI-funded UBI (Universal Basic Income.)
Please take a moment to re-read that statement…
Now that you have, here’s the catch:
The project's core offering is its World ID, which the company describes as a ‘digital passport’ to prove that its holder is a real human, not an AI bot. To get a World ID, a customer signs up to do an in-person iris scan using WorldCoin's 'orb', a silver ball approximately the size of a bowling ball. Once the orb's iris scan verifies the person is a real human, it creates a World ID.
That doesn’t sound very “private,” does it?
No, as a matter of fact, it sounds very much like a mark…
To be clear, we’re not saying that this is the mark of the beast, but it is very, very odd.
Here’s what’s equally odd:
The project has 2 million users from its beta period, and with Monday's launch, WorldCoin is scaling up ‘orbing’ operations to 35 cities in 20 countries. As an enticement, those who sign up in certain countries will receive WorldCoin's cryptocurrency token WLD.
At this point, you’ve probably seen enough to give you pause…
But wait, there’s more!
We’ll take a look at what’s happening now in a moment. Here’s scripture to keep handy as you read, which we will also include at the end of our piece:
22 “The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are healthy, your whole body will be full of light.
23 But if your eyes are unhealthy, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light within you is darkness, how great is that darkness!
And Psalm 115:4-5:
4 Their idols are silver and gold, even the work of men’s hands.
5 They have a mouth, and speak not: they have eyes, and see not.
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Inside WorldCoin’s Orb Factory, Audacious and Absurd Defender of Humanity
Editor’s Note: This article is from Bloomberg, and we will provide analysis. Please Click Here to read the full article.
“Visitors to a future-themed retail store called Josephs, just off the main drag, found a mysterious-looking metallic orb the size of a cantaloupe. The Orb, with its shiny chrome finish, sat atop a black pole, which poked out of a large, rectangular wooden base, and this whole arrangement had been placed near one of the windows at the edge of Josephs’ main show floor. Not far from this odd object was Alex Blania, the Orb’s co-creator…
…He’s the chief executive officer of Tools for Humanity Corp., which uses the Orb as part of an identity verification and cryptocurrency system called Worldcoin.
His company, based in San Francisco and Erlangen, Germany, is the ne plus ultra object of Silicon Valley yearning. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, who started Tools for Humanity and recruited Blania, is a major financial backer, along with Tiger Global Management, Fifty Years, Khosla Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz and dozens of other investors who’ve contributed more than $250 million to, as the company’s website says, ‘ensure a more just economic system.’
Hard Stop. Commentary:
2 Corinthians 11:14-15 accurately describes their desire to “ensure a more just economic system:”
14 And no marvel: for Satan himself is transformed into an Angel of light.
15 Therefore it is no great thing, though his ministers transform themselves, as though they were the ministers of righteousness, whose end shall be according to their works.
Beware of the wolf in sheep’s clothing. Let’s continue.
“To achieve that not-so-modest goal, Tools for Humanity wants to create a global identity system for humans.
The thinking is that artificial intelligence is improving so quickly that we soon will—or may already—need a way to separate humans from machines. In other words, to prevent supersmart AIs from flooding the internet with deepfakes, scams and the propaganda of their choosing, we must have a way to answer the modern existential question: bot or not?
And this is where the Orb comes in. It takes images of people’s irises under the supervision of a human Orb associate and grants them a unique World ID, which certifies that a real person belongs to a string of characters the machine generates.”
Hard Stop. Commentary:
This type of talk sounds very familiar…
16 And he made all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand or in their foreheads.
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark or the name of the beast or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath wit, count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man, and his number is six hundred threescore and six.
And as you’ll see, they confirm their true intentions in pretty short order.
“This, however, is just Step 1 in a very futuristic vision. People who obtain a World ID can also receive an allotment of the Worldcoin cryptocurrency.
Tools for Humanity, which manages Worldcoin, the Orb, World ID and all the rest, argues that crypto will be crucial to solving the income and resource distribution issues that might arise from AI.
The company would thus like to create a financial network that could theoretically do things like dole out regular payments to people in need. In this scenario, the Worldcoin network would function as a non-government-run financial backstop for people across the planet.
Blania and Altman, who formally outlined their Worldcoin master plan a year ago, have since received feedback that might be generously described as mixed.
On one hand, they’ve already persuaded more than 6 million people to go before an Orb and sign up for a World ID, and the sign-up rate has been surging this year. The total value of the digital currency (WLD) is more than $550 million. At a factory in Germany, Orbs are heading toward mass production and will soon be dispersed around the globe in a bid to push these numbers even higher.
On the other hand, the whole scheme has struck many people as ridiculous and dystopian, a privacy nightmare straight from the pages of Orwell.
Numerous countries have halted the iris-image-snapping operation out of fear that the people standing in front of the Orbs don’t really know what they’re signing up for and that the collection of biometric data is ‘unnecessary and excessive,’ as a Hong Kong regulator put it in May.”
Hard Stop: Commentary:
When China says that data collection is “unnecessary and excessive,” you get an idea of where something stands.
The real plan is to have WorldCoin to facilitate the function of handing out money… for the government… then for themselves acting as the government… because they convince governments that they can’t do it right and should just let WorldCoin take over.
Need proof? Let’s take a look at the next part of the article.
“Over the past year, though, Blania and his team have tried to address the knocks on Worldcoin one by one. They’ve improved the security technology in the Orb and how the company handles customer data. They’ve met with regulators again and again and managed to sway countries such as South Korea and Kenya to lift their Orb bans.
Yes, the Worldcoin project can sound nuts. Blania himself gives it maybe a 5% chance of succeeding. Still, he insists in interviews with Bloomberg Businessweek that governments and the public simply haven’t caught up to the technological change that’s coming for them, nor are they making the tools they’ll need to deal with the ramifications of AI when it really arrives. ’Tis better to have Orbed and lost than never to have Orbed at all.”
And there you have it.
We'll pull it all together, right after this.
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Pulling It All Together
WorldCoin is just one way that Satan works to pull people further away from the Father.
That’s where we come in as Watchmen.
Homework: There are two key components to having meaningful conversations outside the walls of the church on this topic.
Be clear on what’s happening. This is a BIG leap forward in controlling populations around the world with a dystopian system, which is being celebrated… like a false idol. The Lord warns us about this in Psalm 115:4-5:
4 Their idols are silver and gold, even the work of men’s hands.
5 They have a mouth, and speak not: they have eyes, and see not.
It’s also important to note that the eyes are used in doing this. Jesus speaks directly to our eyes in Matthew 6:22-23:
22 “The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are healthy, your whole body will be full of light.
23 But if your eyes are unhealthy, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light within you is darkness, how great is that darkness!
Be clear that the church body must be involved in the process. We don’t have the luxury of just sitting back and complaining. As believers, we must be involved in the process. As we are told in Matthew 5:13-16:
13 “You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled underfoot.
14 “You are the light of the world. A town built on a hill cannot be hidden. 15 Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl. Instead they put it on its stand, and it gives light to everyone in the house.
16 In the same way, let your light shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven.
We should be leading the way in the forum of ideas on AI, who is creating it, and what it’s doing specifically.
As our co-publisher RC Williams shared on The Sentinel Report With Alex Newman, “Should Christians be involved in technology? Absolutely 1,000 percent yes.”
Church, come out of your slumber… it’s time to get to work!
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