It's KERI or Surveillance

Highlights from Samuel Smith's response to the Five Eyes warning on frontier AI.

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A one-minute distillation of Samuel Smith's response to the Five Eyes warning on frontier AI — the timeline, the fork in the road, and why KERI is the only exit from total surveillance.

It's KERI or Surveillance in under a minute: frontier AI will break today's digital identity within months; society must choose between AI-based surveillance identity and KERI's cryptographically verifiable alternative. Watch the full talk below for the complete argument.

Full video

Watch the complete talk (~54 minutes) with subtitles.

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State of the KERI Suite — Interactive

Watch Samuel Smith's keynote from KERI Conference 2026 and test your understanding with ten questions placed throughout the talk.

KEL

What a Key Event Log (KEL) is, how it works, and why KERI uses one instead of a shared blockchain.