If you want to get online, you need to prove you are human – Nick Pickles, CPO, Tools for Humanity

If you want to get online, you need to prove you are human – Nick Pickles, CPO, Tools for Humanity

May 26, 2026 · 35 min · Season 14 · Episode 7

About this episode

Nick Pickles discusses the importance of proving human identity to combat misinformation and the technology behind Tools for Humanity.

Tools for Humanity was co-founded by OpenAI’s Sam Altman and provides ways to verify human identity with the belief that the only way to counteract fakery and misinformation is to prove our own humanity. The group’s chief policy officer Nick Pickles discusses the technology the firm uses, the new partnership the firm has just signed with Zoom, and his long history of policy-making, including working under Elon Musk at X. Plus we talk about how AI has created a new start-up culture and sense of urgency in Silicon Valley.

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