Vitalik Buterin has reservations about Sam Altman’s World project

Vitalik Buterin, co -founder of Ethereum, argues that the approach to identifying the digital identity that is promoted by the Sam Altman Global Project has real private risks.

The world was previously created as WorldCOIN, under Altman and Alex Blania tools for humanity. The Foundation says it can help distinguish between artificial and human intelligence agents by wiping eyes fried for users and creating a unique identity for them on Blockchain.

In a prolonged publication, Burin pointed out that the world’s approach to using zero knowledge of the human identity verification while protecting its identity is also explored by various digital passport projects and digital identification. He admitted that “on the surface”, “Zk Digital ID” can contribute to “our social media protection, vote, and all types of Internet services against manipils from SYBILS and robots, all without bargaining for privacy.”

However, Burin suggested that this approach is still summarized in a “one person for a person” identifier, creating great risks.

“In the real world, the borrowed name generally requires multiple accounts … so under the identification of one person for a person, even if it is wrapped in ZK, we risk approaching a world in which all your activity should be actually under one general identity,” he wrote. “In a world of increased risks (for example, drones), getting rid of people’s choice to protect themselves through the wigs has great negative aspects.”

As a tangible example, Burin pointed out that the United States government recently started asking applicants for students and researchers in a visa to appoint their social media accounts on public places, so that it can examine these “hostilities” accounts. Likewise, he suggested that even if there is no general connection between different accounts created under one digital identifier, “the government can force someone to reveal his secret, so that they can see their entire activity.”

How, then, can online governments and services and anyone else to check that someone is a real person without forcing them to give up his privacy? Burin calls for a approach that focuses on “pluralistic identity”, as “there is no single dominant issuance authority, whether it is a person, an institution or a platform.”

Multiple systems can be either “frank” (they ask users to check their identity based on certificates from already verified users) or “implicit” (relying on a variety of different identity systems)-in his opinion, this represents “the best realistic solution.”

Burin concluded that “in my view, the ideal result of identity projects” one person “today is if they have to integrate with the identity based on the graph.”