Vitalik Buterin, co -founder of Ethereum, argues that the digital identification approach promoted by Sam Altman’s world project has real privacy risks.
Formerly known as WorldcoinA world was created under the tools of Altman and Alex Blania for humanity. The organization says it can help distinguish between AI agents and people Scanning the eye balloons of users and creating a unique identity for them in the blockchain.
In Long postButerin noted that a world approach to use zero-knowing evidence Control human identity when protecting anonymity is also explored from various digital passports and digital ID projects. And he acknowledged that “on the surface”, using “ZK-wrapped digital ID” could contribute to “protecting our social media, voting and all kinds of online services against manipulating Sybils and Bots, all without compromising on privacy.”
However, Buterin suggested that this approach is still boiling to a “one-person” ID system that creates major risks.
“In the real world, pseudonymity generally requires multiple accounts … so under a one-person identifier, even if a ZK-wrapped, we risk getting closer to a world where all your activity must be under one public identity,” he wrote. “In a world of growing risk (eg drones), taking away the possibility for people to protect themselves by pseudonymity has serious disadvantages.”
As a concrete example of the risks, Buterin noted that the US government has just begun requiring student and scholarship visa candidates Set up its social media accounts to the public so that it can siflets those accounts for “hostility.” Similarly, he suggested that even if there is no public link between various accounts created under a single digital ID, “a government could force someone to reveal their secret so that they could see all their action.”
Instead, Buterin advocates for an approach emphasizing a “pluralistic identity”, in which “there is no single dominant emission authority, whether this is a person, or institution, or platform.” Pluralist systems can either be “explicit” (they ask users to control their identity based on certificates of already controlled users) or “implicitly” (depending on various identity systems)-according to him, these represent “the best realistic solution.”
