Another one of Jimmy’s podcast appearances has been noticed outside of the comedy sphere.

In the December 2025 Triggernometry pod (here, around the 1-hour mark) he talked about AI and digital ID:

“People are worried about the wrong thing with AI, in my humble opinion. People are worried about losing their job. It’s a perfectly valid thing to worry about, but I think you’re worried about the wrong thing …

“The cost of running an authoritarian regime, like the Stasi, has come down by 10 orders of magnitude in the last three years … When you had to run their Stasi, if you were in East Germany back in the day, it was like 20 percent of the GDP [spent] on spying on people and keeping an eye out.

“Now you’ve got a bunch of cameras, you’ve got AI, everyone’s got a phone on them, and we’re tracking everything at all times. Okay? That’s a worry, because we live in liberal democracies, and we’re very lucky too. But our leaders, how long will they resist that temptation?”

This PPSA site (Protect Privacy Now) then pulls out what it calls a “devastating observation”:

“More Jews died in the Netherlands than in France. You know why? Better records.”

The text above was something that was also highlighted by the Triggernometry team (see in the post here).

This Project for Privacy & Surveillance Accountability are based in the US and advocating for the state to respect “constitutional and statutory protections”. See more in their About page here.