This marks the first-ever integration of proof-of-personhood systems with autonomous AI agents, creating an unprecedented infrastructure for human-AI trust verification. The Billions-Sentient partnership introduces a new paradigm where artificial intelligence requires human identity verification before interaction - a technological capability that directly enables AI to distinguish between real and fake humans at scale.
Billions & Sentient: AI Trust Layer Advances Digital Identity Grid
📰 What Happened
Digital ID startup Billions has secured $30M in funding and partnered with AGI platform Sentient to build a verification system for AI interactions. Launched in February 2025, Billions offers token-based identity verification competing with World ID and Civic. The partnership aims to verify real users, track reputations, and prevent fraud in AI interactions. CEO Evin McMullen highlighted the urgent need, noting 'millions of humans interact with AI without knowing if they're talking to a bot, scam artists, or legitimate service.'
📖 Prophetic Significance
The convergence of $30M in institutional backing, AGI integration, and digital identity verification accelerates multiple prophetic threads simultaneously. Billions' non-biometric approach combined with Sentient's AI platform creates a deceptively appealing system that appears privacy-preserving while building the framework for universal digital control. The 'agentic Internet' mentioned signals autonomous AI systems requiring human verification - precisely the type of infrastructure needed for the image of the beast to both speak and cause those who don't worship it to be killed (Revelation 13:15). This combination of AI autonomy with identity verification hasn't existed before.