Whitney Webb's Chilling Theory About the Next Financial Crisis, The AI Poisoning Attack That Should Terrify You, Why Japan's Bond Market Should Terrify Everyone | Weekly Recap

Tom Bilyeu and the Impact Theory team react to a clip from journalist Whitney Webb, who lays out a thought experiment in which a real or manufactured cyberattack on banks could consolidate power and push the public into a new digital-currency system under coercion. The conversation expands into AI security, including new research showing how tiny amounts of poisoned training data can plant backdoors in large language models, and a real-world malvertising attack that used the Claude platform to distribute a password-stealing trojan. The team then breaks down the yen carry trade unwind, Japan's bond market stress, and the possibility that rising Japanese rates could force a global contraction. Bilyeu closes with an argument for embracing AI as a thought partner, defining weapons-grade versus civilian AI, and deliberately running the opposite experiment: putting freedom first even if it costs something.