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Why did Kenya give Sam Altman’s Worldcoin the boot?

Altman’s controversial project promised to pay people in cryptocurrency to scan their eyeballs. A few weeks on, Kenya is pushing back

AI entrepreneur Sam Altman’s Worldcoin project raised eyebrows when it launched recently for its plan to pay people in cryptocurrency for scanning their eyeballs.

The plan was to ostensibly collect data to be able to one day be able to differentiate between humans and robots.

So why is Kenya now giving the project the boot?

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