ey're saying and putting it into some important context as to whether they might be a terrorist or a criminal. And then what are you going to do about it?

Would it be, first of all, would it be legal for AI to look through everybody's communications? And it's not a human, right, so it's not a human looking through communications. But if it finds something then maybe it would flag it for the humans. Is that fair? Well don't we do that already? You're talking about the current situation. Do you know banks have been doing that for I don't know forty years? Banks have always run software that doesn't accuse a specific anybody of anything but it looks at all their transactions and it looks for anything that has a pattern that suggests fraud because there's patterns. And when it sees a pattern it surfaces it for the humans. So we've been doing that forever and I guess that's legal. You know it's legal for the banks to do it. So I feel like there will be certainly loopholes where AI can do it.

So if I haven't told you this before, stop doing anything illegal. If I have to tell you that you're definitely going to get caught. Anything that you're doing illegal today that you have a digital footprint for, you're definitely going to get caught. You know, maybe this year, next year, in four years, but you're definitely going to get caught. If there's any signs of a crime in your life you're going to get caught, right? So you should immediately adjust all of your illegal activities to get rid of them.

One of the predictions I made in the late nineties is that technology would eliminate crime. That technology would eliminate crime. And there are several ways I said that would happen. Number one was there would be cheap cameras everywhere. Right? Remember in the nineties I said the economics of little video cameras would go down so much there would just be a camera everywhere. And sure enough there's pretty much a camera everywhere. So there's still crime but the odds of getting away with lots of different types of crimes is going way down.

Now what if AI can find every financial crime? Imagine AI looking for insider trading. It could find it every time. It's not that easy to find insider trading with normal mechanisms but imagine AI could find the brother-in-law's cousin of the person who had the insider information. How about we can't do that now because the normal way you would get away with insider trading is you'd have somebody else do it. The dumb way to do it is to be a person in the company that has the insider information and then trade in that a day before the announcement. Right? You're going to get caught because the systems do look for that. They look for unusual trades right before big news events.

But if you would simply talk to your cousin in person and said to your cousin, hey you know your brother-in-law that nobody will ever connect me to because it's too many jumps, tell them to buy a little bit of this. And by the way I might be asking that brother-in-law's cousin for a favor someday so you can work things out. So there's a system of benefit that just never shows up on paper. But AI could find it because they know who your cousin is and they know your cousin's friend made a trade and suddenly this hiding stuff doesn't work.

Now remember Hunter Biden had all these shell corporations. Now that worked because nobody was looking for it. As soon as they were looking for it they could start to unwind it all. But if you weren't looking for it you weren't going to discover it. But could AI look for it? Could AI have enough access to enough databases in other countries etc. that it could find all the illicit corporate structures and also figure out how they connect to each other and just draw up the crime? Maybe. Maybe so.

I think we're reaching that point I suggested where we might be dumb enough to let the criminals out. That's a different story. But we'll have the ability to basically catch any crime. I don't know how y