BREAKING: Inside Sam Altman's "Proof of Human" Company 'Tools for Humanity'
CEO & Co-Founder, Alex Blania
As agents like OpenClaw explode, OpenAI calls the future “extremely multi-agent”
If bots can act human at scale, humanity becomes the ultimate infrastructure.
We unpack:
• 38M users, 17M verified humans
• Why “combating bots is a lost cause”
• Why platforms will need proof-of-human
• 99% of internet traffic could be AI
• The “last innings before superintelligence”
• Why platforms like X may not be usable very soon
we dive into Merge Labs,
@alexblania & Sam's latest co-founding, a BCI research lab with $252M in seed funding at a $850M valuation
This is the most in-depth look at
@worldcoin,
@merge, & the breakthrough entrepreneur hand picked by
@sama to lead Tools for Humanity
Highlights:
(00:00) Alex Blania
(01:27) World Explained: ID, Chain, App — The Full Stack
(04:47) World Card, Stablecoins & Encrypted World Chat
(08:22) 37M Users, 17M Verified
(11:02) “Fail-Safe Privacy” — Why This Can’t Break
(12:18) Where Proof of Human Actually Wins: Social, Dating, Gaming
(14:04) Stop Fighting Bots
(16:49) How Alex Met Sam Altman
(22:25) Operating with Sam While Building Two Companies
(24:39) Inside Merge Labs — Why It Took 18 Months
(24:58) “Last Innings Before Superintelligence”
(32:38) Launching Merge Labs — $252M Seed Round
(34:01) OpenAI Funding Support
(37:30) Brain–Computer Interfaces 101 — Why Bandwidth Matters
(42:14) Mind Control? Privacy? The Real BCI Misconceptions