Ex-banker: Digital ID and AI will let elites control every aspect of life.

Ex-investment banker Catherine Austin Fitts: Digital ID—once linked to AI and programmable money—enables authorities to monitor, manipulate, and ultimately control every aspect of human behaviour.

"If I can track you closely—where you're going and what you're doing—and I can get you on programmable money, which can be turned on and off, then I can start to use AI and surveillance systems and algorithms to basically manage and control your behaviour."

"So if I want you living in a 15-minute city, your money won't work beyond the 15 minutes unless you do what I say."

"So what we're talking about... is building a system that will allow you to be [surveilled] and tracked and turn your money on and off, or incentivise you or penalise you in a variety of ways with your money, that can be integrated with your behaviour."

"When you integrate [AI] with a digital ID and programmable money, then you're talking about complete control."

"That is a coup d'état. That is the end of human liberty in the West."