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Ricky
Rise of emotional surveillance. I'm going to give you a little bit of a. A synopsis on this, too. We're talking about surveillance, guys, that moves beyond faces and voices. You ready for this? To emotions. Right. Emotions, guys. So in other words, AI Won't simply identify who you are. It will attempt to determine your emotional state. Stress and anxiety levels. Confidence levels. Anger or aggression. Happiness, Depression. Fatigue. Engagement. Intentions. That's what we were just talking about. So the goal of this is to interpret not only behavior, but also internal emotional conditions. Now, how are they going to do this? Well, I'm going to read this, Joe, and I'm going to throw it over to you. Rather than relying on one signal, these systems combine facial expressions, eye movements, voice tone, word choices, typing behavior. What? Typing behavior, body posture, heart rate, through wearables, breathing patterns, and physiological signals. This creates a far more. What it does, it completes. It creates a complete psychological profile that is far beyond traditional surveillance. And then you. And this is all through, of course, AI Wow.
Joe
It's absolutely wild. And if your audience remembers, you know, four or five years ago, and maybe even longer than that, maybe six years ago, you've all know a Harare. I'm sure that everybody knows that guy's name. You know, the candidate for the false prophet, you know, he is. You know, he once said that humans have become hackable animals. And, and I know that we all talked about this whenever that happened, but he also talked about how the whole. The plan Dimmick, that came out whenever this came out. This an opportunity for us to reevaluate what's going on. Right. You know, Klaus Schwab was big at doing this. The World Economic Forum, you know, never let a good crisis go to waste is kind of their motto. And, and they took this as an opportunity for the. The surveillance to go above the skin to under the skin. And the way that they. He talked about doing this is that you would utilize, you know, wearable devices and implantable devices to monitor your biometrics, to. To monitor internal biological and neurological processes. Because he said that human emotions like fear, joy, anger, and boredom, they. They're ultimately biological in nature and that these algorithms are capable of monitoring your health, that. That can theoretically monitor exactly how you feel at any given time. Now, of course, you know, they push this information out during a time of. Of of panic, during a time of a pandemic, right? People are worried, they're scared. You know, they really don't care how they're protected. They just want to be protected. So now we fast forward to, you know, five, six years later. And we're seeing the. The fruition of that statement come to light through these types of technologies. I believe the company's name is valance AI, and they use the technology. Let me pull it up here. It's called. I believe that it's called. See here.
Ricky
Is it on your pulse?
Joe
Well, it's.
Ricky
It's.
Joe
It. I pulled it up from bio.biometricupdate.com the. The technology is pulse emotion model. And, and it's designed to do exactly what you just talked about. I mean, it's. It's. It's a way of trying to monitor people's emotions and monitor what they're thinking and what they're doing at any given time, like what me and you are doing right now. I mean, you can take our facial reactions and, and you can monitor what we think about any given thing just based off of our facial reactions. And of course, this isn't, you know, new technology per se. I mean, you know, law enforcement has used this for years to, to identify if a suspect is lying or not. Right. But they're using it now to create these AI devices, and these are going to be things that they're going to implant into these or install into these flock camera devices and just any, you know, surveillance camera devices that'll be able to. Monitors people's emotions based on their external reactions to any given situation, whether it be eye, movement, facial, you know, movement, voice, so on and so forth. And, you know, and. And what they're trying to do is, in my opinion, they're. They're trying to put themselves just like what they always do in. In place of God, right? They're trying to. To understand what's on your heart and what's on your mind. And it reminds me of what was said in 1st Samuel 16, 7. For the Lord does not see, his man sees. For a man looks at the outward appearance, but God looks at the heart, right? So Satan is always trying to mimic and, you know, do exactly what God does. Right. So what do we see happening with this technology? Well, we're seeing, you know, Satan through this technology, trying to mimic what God can do by reading people's hearts and reading people's emotions when only one can do that, and that's the Lord. I mean, and. And anybody that. And. And I know that everybody has heard this, this phrase before, Just follow your heart, right? You know, just follow your heart is probably one of the stupidest theologies that you can have, because our hearts can even deceive us, right? If you follow your own heart, then you're following your own ways. You're not following the ways of the Lord. Only the Lord knows your heart. I mean, just like me and you. I mean, I, I can tell by Ricky's appearance and by his, the way that he acts and the way that we communicate with each other online and even offline when we're talking to one another, that he's legitimate. I mean, at least that's what it appears, right? And same thing with me. I'm sure Ricky would say the same thing about me. You know, it seems like this guy is legitimate, that he's walking with the Lord, that he's doing everything that he's supposed to be doing. But in reality, there's only one that really knows exactly the truth, and that's the Lord. So when you see these types of technologies being instituted like this, and, and believe me, they're going to have false readings. They always have false readings. And it's going to be false readings to the point to where it's going to do exactly what it was programmed to do, right? They're trying to figure out exactly what people are thinking, what they're feeling at any given time so that they can use that information to. Going back to Revelation 13 to control them, because that's the ultimate mechanism that they want to do. If they can control our emotions, if they can control our heart, then they can control us.
Ricky
So, Joe, as we're. Here's something that's interesting is people don't realize this technology is, is, is incorporated and is infiltrating every sector of life. I, I look this up. So think about what we're talking about. Emotional AI is already in customer service. That makes sense. They're, you know, they're monitoring the emotions of customers. In fact, I don't know if you saw this, Joe, but these companies like Walmart, they're, they're replacing traditional stickers and tags, and they're putting in these digital price tags, and they're also putting in these cameras that has this technology where it's able to analyze emotions of customers. And they can, they can change those prices based on the emotion of the customer. Have you seen that? Yeah. So you got that then. Hiring interviews. Now I'm gonna tell you a true story. This happened yesterday. My son, my oldest son and I were at a restaurant locally here where I. It's one of our regular places we go eat at, it's a steakhouse. And, and he. Because he's been taught, you know, because we've been trying to get him, you know, he just graduated high school, so he's looking for a job and he's, he actually started working. But an interview. And again, we know these people and one of the hostess was talking to us and she said, did, did you ever hear back from us? And he said, no. And she got to talking and turns out that AI interviews people for the job. I'm like, wait, stop. What did you just say? She said, yeah, everyone is interviewed through AI. What? Like we're not even doing physical a interviews anymore. It's, it's moving AIs and this is a steakhouse. So if, if a steakhouse is doing this, you know, big companies are doing this. So school education's rolling this out. Now think about, and I know where this is going with this too is the potential for school shooters. These cameras are in there, they're reading emotions, the whole nine yards. Health care, now this is a creepy one. Why do we need this in healthcare? Joe, any, any thoughts on that?
Joe
Yeah, I mean, I know that they use it with, you know, with Medicaid to deny and to, to approve certain applicants for, you know, applications for Medicaid and Medicare.
Ricky
Yeah, again, this is, I don't see any call centers. That makes sense. That's along with customer service, retail, again, makes sense. Smart vehicles, again, this is that new legislation. This is all, this is why all your new vehicles has this built into it. Because they're going to read your emotions, they're going to see your heart rate, your breathing patterns are going to see all that security systems, same ordeal, same. And then even law enforcement. I think you and I talked about this, that movie with Chris Pratt that came out recently called Mercy, where you have an AI judicial system. And, and you know, we were talking to someone that was, I think they were in law enforcement and they said that that movie is not far fetched. And in inner circles they have discussed how this will soon be a reality. How scary is that?
Joe
It's wild. And I mean, and we've, we talk about this all the time. Predictive programming. What they put out in movies and what they put out in TV shows ultimately comes to fruition. So I, I agree with that. I mean, we see a lot of that stuff on TV and movies that, that'll actually come out and play. I mean, you look at Minority Report, you know, predictive policing, they actually use this type of technology to predict whether or not kids in schools will eventually commit crimes. I think that there was a, a school in Texas that if a kid rates at a certain level based on their behavior and grades and things like that. They'll put them in a different class and monitor them more closely because they're more apt to be a problem child, basically, and commit a crime at some point in their life. So that's. And that's predictive policing right there.
Ricky
Yep, it is. And I predict I could be wrong if the Lord Terries and this thing drags on. Some social media platforms like Meta is going to incorporate this where they can, they can monitor behavior because these systems are going to know when someone is fearful, vulnerable, excited, lonely, angry. And they will alter those algorithms to tailor them to advertisement, advertisements geared to them, to their emotions, political propaganda, recommendations, the whole nine yards. So in other words, translation, if you think the algorithms on these social media platforms are aggressive now, we ain't seen nothing yet. This is, this is sick, man. I mean, we are. I posted something the other day, I actually shared it and it was talking about why, you know, individuals like us have nostalgia for the 80s and 90s, especially in the 90s. It's not because we didn't have technology, because. But we did. But we had the ability to turn it off at will. We were not products of algorithms. But that's not the case today. People are not shutting it off and they're wired to something 24 7. And look, I'm just going to be open with you and transparent. I watched a documentary. I don't even know when it was. I don't even know where it was at. It was either Netflix prime, you know, YouTube, who knows. But it was out there and it was talking about it basically did a self evaluation and this, this. There was a young girl in there, she was a college student and she was talking about how she didn't even realize that she was a product of this. And she didn't know she was addicted to this until she. In her classes, she realized she didn't have a very good attention span. She was losing focus and all this stuff. And, and she, so she, she actually went to counseling, they did an evaluation on her and they had to detox her. She had to shut down her complete social media account. And she said eventually or she completely turned it off. Went. I think it was like weeks on end. And eventually all that started coming back. Her attention span, all of that stuff. And, and it. She was talking about how, you know so many people that she knows personally, family members, friends, co workers, etc, students that are walking around like zombies because of this technology right here.
Joe
It's unbelievable. And, and I was just at children's camp about two weeks ago, and we were in an area where there was no cell service, no WI fi. It was. Honestly, it was wonderful. I mean, I enjoyed it because we were disconnected from. We were off the grid, basically. But when we would. We would leave and go into town at least two times during that week to go get some. Some supplies from the local Dollar General. Two of the ladies that was with us in their 40s, they were almost going through withdrawals because they couldn't get on Snapchat and do their. I guess they call them snaps. I don't know anything about Snapchat. But as soon as we hit the threshold where the. The service kicked on, it was. The phone started dinging, and then it was just. They were glued to their devices for that period of time. And as soon as we got ready to cross over that. That threshold where we were going to lose service, it was like their whole demeanor changed. And it was like, oh, I have to wait another few days before I have access to this. I mean, it's. It's unreal.
Episode: Emotional Surveillance Is Terrifying
Guests: Joe Hawkins & Ricky Scaparo
Hosts: Gary Stearman, Mondo Gonzales
Date: July 15, 2026
In this episode, Joe Hawkins and Ricky Scaparo delve deep into the emergence of "emotional surveillance"—the AI-driven monitoring of internal emotional states using a wide array of biometrics and digital signals. The discussion explores the technology, its integration into everyday life, implications for privacy and freedom, spiritual parallels, and the broader prophetic context.
"So in other words, AI Won't simply identify who you are. It will attempt to determine your emotional state... That's what we were just talking about. So the goal of this is to interpret not only behavior, but also internal emotional conditions."
"You know, the candidate for the false prophet, you know, he is. You know, he once said that humans have become hackable animals... they took this as an opportunity for the surveillance to go above the skin to under the skin."
"They're trying to put themselves just like what they always do in place of God, right?... only one can do that, and that's the Lord."
"The technology is pulse emotion model. And, and it's designed to do exactly what you just talked about. I mean, it's... a way of trying to monitor people's emotions and monitor what they're thinking and what they're doing at any given time."
"My son... interviewed through AI. What? Like we're not even doing physical a interviews anymore... if a steakhouse is doing this, you know, big companies are doing this."
"They actually use this type of technology to predict whether or not kids in schools will eventually commit crimes."
The tone throughout is urgent, warning, and personal—Ricky and Joe alternate between prophetic analysis, worldview critique, and real-life storytelling. Both express concern about technology supplanting the spiritual domain, and the societal risk in surrendering privacy and autonomy to algorithms. The episode urges listeners to remain aware, vigilant, and spiritually grounded as these technologies become further embedded in daily life.
This episode of Prophecy Watchers examines the rapid deployment of AI-based emotional surveillance at the intersection of technology, society, and prophecy. Ricky and Joe underscore that while surveillance moves “under the skin,” believers should recognize the attempt to mimic divine understanding, maintain discernment, and value the irreplaceable wisdom of God—reminding listeners that only the Lord truly knows the heart.