Sam Altman’s project that aims to scan the irises of every single person on Earth in exchange for cryptocurrency has made its debut in the U.S., even as concerns around biometric data collection and processing remain.

World Network, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s controversial cryptocurrency project, opened a new storefront Thursday in Union Square that features the organization’s signature iris-scanning orbs.

You might need to prove you're a human first. That's the requirement at World, formerly known as WorldCoin. The project, backed by OpenAI's Sam Altman, has launched in Atlanta, Austin, Los Angeles, Miami,