Sam Altman’s Eyeball-Scanning Orb Startup Made a Cult-Like Demand of Its Employees
Joe Wilkins
created: Nov. 23, 2025, 2 p.m. | updated: Dec. 3, 2025, 1:28 p.m.
If you thought tales of OpenAI’s nonexistent work-life balance were bad, wait until you get a load of Sam Altman’s blockchain company.
The startup, aptly named “Tools for Humanity,” bills itself as a global tech company working on “open-source solutions” via the blockchain.
“We don’t care about politics, we don’t care about DEI, we don’t care about anything, we just care about how can we achieve the mission through merit, performance, and excellence,” the CEO said.
The product might be nonsense — a surveillance orb inscrutably connected to the blockchain — but the exploitation behind it is clearly anything but.
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