Xprize founder says ‘humans behave better when they’re being watched’

Xprize Foundation founder Peter Diamandis has joined a growing list of tech executives who think that global surveillance is a good idea, saying, “[h]umans behave better when they’re being watched.” Diamandis shared his opinion in a post on X this week, and went much deeper on his beliefs on his Substack , where he described, essentially: Big Brother, but good. “Radical transparency is coming. A future where you can know anything, anytime, anywhere. A future where no one can hide,” he wrote on Substack. “We are wrapping the planet in an ‘Sensor Ecosystem’: a living, multi-layered sensing system that runs from the cameras in your home, to the phone in your pocket, to autonomous cars and humanoid robots on the ground, to drones and flying cars in the air, all the way up to a constellation of satellites imaging every square meter on the Earth every single day.” Diamandis’ comments come roughly two years after Oracle founder Larry Ellison said something very similar. “Citizens will be on their best behavior, because we’re constantly recording and reporting everything that is going on,” Ellison predicted during an Oracle event in 2024. Diamandis appears to have been spurred to make such claims after hosting a podcast interview with Will Marshall, the CEO of Planet, the largest operator of Earth-observing satellites. “No one can hide anymore,” Marshall told Diamandis during the conversation. “If you build a school, we’re going to see the school. …