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This is the kind of creeping government overreach that should set off alarm bells for every freedom-loving American.
In the Last Frontier, Alaska's bureaucrats are quietly plotting to hand your digital life over to "agentic" artificial intelligence, turning a simple state login into a surveillance super-app that could act as your proxy while hoarding your most sensitive data.
The Alaska Department of Administration's Office of Information Technology issued a Request for Information on Nov. 25 seeking vendors to rebuild the myAlaska platform.
The RFI envisions embedding advanced AI agents capable of autonomously handling transactions, submitting applications, managing personal data, reading documents, filling forms, verifying eligibility, and even initiating tokenized payments—all with initial user consent.
The system would incorporate biometric authentication, including facial recognition and fingerprints, alongside digital wallets for mobile driver's licenses, professional certificates, hunting and fishing permits, and prepaid balances.
Built on W3C Verifiable Credentials and ISO 18013-5 standards, it aims to consolidate up to 300 government services into one app with voice navigation and multi-language support.
The document touts security measures such as NIST compliance, audit trails, adversarial testing, explainability tools, and human overrides.
Yet it offers scant details on oversight, leaving unanswered how deeply AI could probe legacy databases or concentrate behavioral and biometric data in one vulnerable hub.
Privacy watchdogs warn this aligns with global trends toward mandatory digital IDs, potentially blurring service delivery with constant monitoring and making true opt-out impossible as verification becomes required for everyday life.
Alaska's push promises convenience but risks surrendering citizen control to unaccountable AI inside government networks—a dangerous step toward a tracked, tiered society where privacy is optional and power tilts further to the state.
