A new crypto firm wants to scan your eyeballs – should you look away?

For critics, the ID process from Worldcoin is a privacy risk; for others it is financial security in the age of AI. We try it out

Worldcoin wants to prove I am actually human". At least that is the explanation a staff member gives for a cryptocurrency venture scanning my eyeball in a London office building.

Without the optical scan, Worldcoin will not verify your humanness" - you could be a robot and you won't get any crypto. Welcome to financial security in the age of artificial intelligence.