World, known as WorldCoin until late 2024 when AI became trendier than cryptocurrency, announced on Tuesday that it was opening a limited beta of its new AgentKit. The new tech, says World, will serve as a way to tie AI agents directly to a human to prevent bad actors from abusing agentic AI and “infuse trust into the system.”
Given this is a World venture, that damn eyeball-scanning-orb is still involved.
Why even bother with this? Everybody knows that the new excuse for bot-based disasters is blaming the AI on it. Identity doesn’t matter. Facebook’s Head of AI Safety foolishly left a bot alone, and almost lost all her emails.
The only thing this provides is a great way to encourage identity theft. Thanks to the “code is law” underpinnings, the rules governing your personal safety will be “not your keys, not your identity”.