The Financial Panopticon: AI, CBDCs, and Currency Wars | Simon Dixon with Catherine Austin Fitts

In this long-requested interview, Simon Dixon joins Catherine Austin Fitts, founder of The Solari Report, for a wide-ranging conversation on Currency Wars, artificial intelligence, central banking, and the global surveillance architecture now being built through money itself. We explore how AI is accelerating financial centralization, why Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) represent a fundamental shift in power between the state and the individual, and how financial systems are increasingly being designed as a panopticon of control — tracking, nudging, and ultimately constraining human behavior.

Topics covered include:

• Currency wars and geopolitical power struggles
• AI and its role in financial surveillance and automation
• Central banks, CBDCs, and programmable money
• The rise of the financial surveillance state
• Why monetary systems are becoming tools of social control
• The implications for freedom, sovereignty, and the future of money
• Where Bitcoin and decentralized systems fit into this landscape

Catherine Austin Fitts brings decades of experience from Wall Street, government, and financial research, while Simon Dixon draws on his background in Bitcoin, banking, and global finance to connect the dots between technology, money, and power.

This discussion is essential viewing for anyone trying to understand: where money is heading, how AI changes everything, and what this means for personal and financial freedom in the years ahead.