worldcoin.org is presently scanning about 1 person per second for proof of personhood presumably to prepare for defending against ai replications, possibly with universal basic income as incentivization the protocol is described as agnostic to the method of proof. the designers appear ignorant of a blockchain’s ability to cause goal-oriented research efforts to take off exponentially, but they introduce normalization of the importance of direct biometric interaction in a digital age. their first proving device is https://whitepaper.worldcoin.org/technical-implementation#the-orb which includes teardown. they ask for contributions to the design but i do not see it yet listed on their open source page at http://worldcoin.org/open-source .