Episode

How Bots, Deepfakes and AI Agents Are Forcing a New Internet Identity Layer

Podcast: a16z crypto show
Published: Apr 17, 2026
Duration seconds: 2533
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Summary

Ben Horowitz and Erik Torenberg speak with Alex Blania of Tools for Humanity about World and the growing need for proof of human verification online. They discuss the challenge of proving human uniqueness at scale, the privacy model behind World ID, and why platforms from social media to dating apps to video conferencing may soon need stronger ways to verify that users are real people.