Heise reports that World — Sam Altman's identity project, known for iris-based proof-of-personhood checks — wants to extend its verification into videoconferencing, framing iris scans as protection against deepfakes in Zoom meetings.
The logic is straightforward: as generative video makes faking a convincing participant cheap, the camera feed alone no longer guarantees that a face belongs to a real, unique person. World's answer is the iris scan it already deploys elsewhere — an identity anchor outside the video stream, checked before the call rather than during it.
The controversy is equally familiar. World's biometric collection has drawn scrutiny every time it has expanded, and iris recognition moving from pop-up verification events into ordinary office meetings widens the surface considerably. Whether a workplace accepts that trade — verified humans at the price of a biometric checkpoint — is a procurement question as much as a technical one.
For now what's being reported is the plan: how it ships, who gets to enable it, and whether verification happens per meeting or per account remain open questions.
