The co -founder of Ethereum Vitalik Buterin argues that the digital identification approach promoted by Sam Altman’s global program has real risks to protect privacy.
Earlier known as Worldcoin, people were created under the tools for humanity Altman and Alex Blania. The organization says it can help distinguish between AI agents and people scanning users’ eyes and creating a unique identity for them in blockchain.
In A long postButerin noted that the world’s approach to use Zero -knowledge receipts For the verification of human identity, while protecting anonymity, it is also investigated by various digital passport projects and digital identifiers. And he acknowledged that “on the surface”, using a “zk-spinned digital identifier” could contribute to “protecting social media, voting and all sorts of internet services from manipulation from Sybils and bots, all without compromising privacy”.
However, Buterin suggested that this approach is still boiling in a “one by person” identity system, which raises significant risks.
“In the real world, the nickname generally requires that we have multiple accounts … So under a person’s identifier, even if the zk-pissed, we run the risk of getting closer to a world where all your activity must de-Facto be under a single public identity,” he wrote. “In a world of increasing risk (eg drones), the removal of people’s choice to be protected through nickname has significant disadvantages.”
As a specific example of risks, Buterin noted that the US government started recently Requiring candidates for the Visa of Students and scholars To determine the social media accounts to the public so that they can display these accounts for “hostility”. Similarly, he suggested that even if there is no public link between different accounts created by a single digital identifier, “a government could force someone to reveal their secret so they could see all their activity”.
So how do governments, online services and anyone else hopes to verify that one is a real person without forcing them to endanger their privacy? Buterin supports an approach that emphasizes the “pluralistic identity”, in which “there is no single dominant version, whether it be a person or an institution or platform”.
Pluralist systems can either be “explicit” (ask users to verify their identity based on testimonies from already verified users) or “implied” (based on a variety of different identity systems)-in his view, they represent “the best”.
“In my opinion, the ideal outcome of the identity of the” one by person “identity that exists today is if they were to merge with the identity based on social graphics,” Buterin concluded.
