The real sleeper is the AI whistleblower pipeline — legal infrastructure (like Psst's anonymous digital safe) is now being built specifically to funnel AI company insiders to press, meaning the next big AI cover-up leak is structurally inevitable.
China's UFWD surveillance architecture mirrors what AI agents could theoretically enable at scale — autonomous monitoring, behavioral suppression, and cross-border targeting — making this a blueprint both for authoritarian AI deployment and a cautionary tale for on-chain identity/privacy tools like zodiac-liquidity.