Altman co-founded "World" in 2019 — known as Worldcoin until last year — to create a global identity verification system.

Tools for Humanity, a startup co-founded by Sam Altman, has launched its its World eyeball-scanning identity verification system in the US. During an event in San Francisco, Altman reportedly said that World's technology provides "a way to make sure humans remained central and special in a world where the internet had a lot of AI-driven content.

An eyeball-scanning ID device from Open AI used to globally verify identity debuts in the United States Thursday.