Text taken from the Telegram Channel of darpaandcia
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin is in italics.
[ColonelCassad] US Pushes for AI-Based Global Financial Control
On December 18, 2024, DARPA published a notice of the launch of the A3ML (Anticipatory and Adaptive Anti-Money Laundering) program, and on February 20, 2025, they plan to hold a presentation day for potential project participants.
According to them, the goal of the program is "to completely eliminate the ability to launder money on a global scale."
DARPA plans to achieve this by replacing existing manual analysis methods with next-generation algorithmic solutions. The agency openly admits the ineffectiveness of current anti-money laundering methods, despite all the efforts being made.
The documents say that half of the North Korean nuclear program is funded through money laundering schemes, and Chinese underground banking structures are closely linked to the Mexican Sinaloa drug cartel.
Technically, the program involves creating complex algorithms that will:
1. Track all money transfers worldwide
2. Automatically find strange money transfer patterns, such as when they "go in circles" or unexpectedly split into small parts
3. Predict new ways of laundering money
4. Create "digital dossiers" on suspicious transactions in a format that other computer systems can quickly understand and use
The program must learn to work without direct exchange of confidential data between participants, which indicates plans to create a distributed system of global financial monitoring.
The program will have both open and closed parts. Only US citizens with the highest level of clearance to classified information (TS/SCI) are allowed to the closed session, which indicates the use of particularly sensitive intelligence.
Of course, this is not about "fighting money laundering", but about establishing a new global system for monitoring and controlling financial flows, with the option of influencing them.