TIME Cover Story | Tools for Humanity's Orb Explained
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Sam Altman, co-founder of Tools for Humanity, aims to reshape the online landscape with a new human-verification layer to manage the challenges posed by advanced AI. He predicts that as AI technology reaches higher intelligence levels, it will become challenging to differentiate between real and AI-generated content. To address this, he has conceptualized a device known as the Orb, which would serve as a solution for verifying human interactions on the Internet and countering the rise of bots and AI agents.
Sam Altman envisions a future where advanced AI could render it difficult to discern between real people and AI-generated content online, thus necessitating a new verification infrastructure.
Altman's initiative, Tools for Humanity, aims to develop a human-verification layer on the Internet, addressing the challenge posed by increasingly sophisticated AI agents.
The Orb, a device conceptualized by Altman, represents a pivotal solution to the problem of distinguishing genuine human interactions from those created by AI.
With the impending evolution of AI, Altman argues that society needs to prepare for a paradigm shift in how we interact and verify online identities.
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