All authoritarian regimes, including Technocracy, require a enforcement function: "Secret police. Secret courts. Secret government agencies. Surveillance. Censorship. Intimidation. Harassment. Torture. Brutality. Widespread corruption. Entrapment. Indoctrination. Indefinite detention."
Technocracy marches on, even in face of government shutdown, because Technocrats are not part of the government. They are largely unelected and unaccountable and will continue their twisted agenda in spite of inconvenient roadblocks. Further, Technocracy intends to replace government altogether.
AI is emerging as the judge, jury and executioner. If you break the rules, there will be no mercy or human understanding. AI is incapable of human understanding or emotions. Punishment will be swift and there will be no appeal or other recourse to clear your name. Science fiction has dealt with this on several occasions, such as RoboCop, Judge Dredd and the Minority Report.
Every development like this will be used by the military to ultimately turn on the citizens of their own country. DARPA is already firmly embedded in Boston Dynamics, the Internet, Open AI, Google, etc. Imagine an army of robots equipped with ChatGPT and facial recognition to patrol the streets of America. Too far fetched for you? It's time to get in touch with reality!
Free Speech is a core element of a healthy, functioning society. The vacuum created by its absence can only be filled with tyranny. The government's attempt to criminalize Free Speech is not just inconvenient, but rather it is existential. George Washington saw this clearly: "dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter."
If you inadvertently and unknowingly pass by a crime scene with cell phone in hand, you may be intentionally caught in a "geofence" police dragnet to find all people within a radius of the criminal act. Upon sifting the data, "suspects" will be identified and targeted for investigation. This practice is an egregious violation of the Fourth Amendment, yet typical of Technocrat modus operandi.
With the addition of kill-switches and full-control automation of the car, they can be programmed to automatically repossess themselves if you miss a payment. Further, if the police want to pull you over faster than you pull yourself over, the kill switch could be used to force you to the side of the road. Even during a routine stop, your car could be disabled to prevent driving away prematurely.
The government knows everything about us while we know virtually nothing about the government. This is backwards and evidence that the Technocratic mindset has taken over in America. We should have listened to the 1967 British TV series, The Prisoner: "I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.”
Technocrats continue to build the police state with various equipment for surveillance, the latest being police cars with 360-degree cameras and "perimeter alerts" that analyzes people for perceived threats. Exactly how AI is used to "perceive" is not specified. Recording the 360-degree view is continuous thus recording everything in the immediate area, including unsuspecting civilians.
A 15-minute city means everything you have to (or can do) exists within 15 minutes from where you live. People are seeing it as a virtual gulag where confinement is monitored with geo-fencing, smart phones and panopticon-style surveillance. Also perceived is the inability (or great difficulty) to escape from your assigned 15-minute neighborhood. Globalists and Technocrats are thrilled at the prospect.