Should you trust Tools for Humanity’s iris-scanning orb?

Are you talking to a real person online or another bot? As bots increasingly outnumber humans online, leading to an explosion of deepfakes and AI-driven fraud, one company has a solution straight out of sci-fi: Your iris is being scanned to verify your humanity.

Today on TechCrunch equity Podcast, Rebecca Bellan talks to Adrian Ludwig, Chief Security Officer and Chief Architect Tools for humanityThe company behind the world’s eye-scanning Orbs appears around the world. Belan and Ludwig discuss privacy-first identity verification, open-source approaches to biometric technology, and why proving humanity is more important now than ever.

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Correction: Previous version stated that World Orb scans your iris to verify identity instead of humanity.