Hakim sounds the alarm on the convergence of AI, digital IDs, biometrics, centralized finance (CBDCs), and surveillance infrastructure. He raises a critical question: could data centers evolve into the "digital military bases" of the AI era, playing a key role in societal control?
His research reveals a global digital ID push, with the World Bank funding programs even in impoverished nations where basic needs are unmet. He predicts 2027 will be a pivotal year, confronting us with CBDCs and a greater role for digital IDs, forcing a stark choice between convenience and personal freedom.
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So, Hakim, you've been vocal about the convergence of AI, digital IDs, biometric systems, centralized finance and surveillance infrastructure. Um, could these data centers become the new digital military basis of the AI era and play a key role in the future of societal control? Is could that be? Yeah, I mean that's um, it very well could be. You know, I I wrote this report last year on on digital ID. Uh, you can look for it at abovephone.com/digital. I looked at pretty much every country that was doing a digital ID program and I found that, um, if you, there was no country. If you wanted to escape digital ID or a digital ID program, you need to go to the Amazon rainforest or a war-torn part of the Middle East. It was coming everywhere. The World Bank was was uh investing uh hundreds of millions of dollars in countries that didn't have the money to do it, where the the people there, they didn't have money for food or water or energy, but gosh darn, they had money for for digital ID, right? So that that is the agenda at the end of the day. Um, I ...