2025 Predictions from Gautam Hazari, Sekura.id CTO
Here it is, folks. It’s that time of year again. Mobile Identity founding father and Sekura.id CTO, Gautam Hazari consults his crystal and silicon nanowafer ball and gives us his predictions for what shifts we’ll see in 2025 in identity, AI and fraud. We’ll be bringing more predictions and insight from the team on our socials, but first, over to you, Gautam…
Artificial Intelligence to Augmented Intelligence: Agentic AI Takes Centre Stage
AI will evolve from Artificial Intelligence to Augmented Intelligence, with Agentic AI taking centre stage and overshadowing generative AI advancements. Agentic AI will autonomously augment many digital tasks, going far beyond traditional RPA. It’s automation with agency, where tasks are not scripted by humans. Agents autonomously decide on sub-tasks to achieve a goal without explicit human intervention. These agents listen, understand, plan, reason, and act. According to a Deloitte report, 25% of enterprises using generative AI are forecasted to deploy AI agents by 2025, a figure expected to rise to 50% by 2027.
Online Fraud Becomes Much More Personal: Amygdala Hijack Gets a Boost Through Generative AI
Voice and video cloning powered by generative AI models will lead to a significant rise in phishing attacks, exploiting creative ways to trigger Amygdala Hijack and provoke emotional reactions. AI agents will be capable of leveraging psychological principles of influence, such as authority, commitment, liking, perpetual contrast, reciprocation, scarcity, and social proof. This could lead our biological brains to act emotionally, often without conscious control.
Generative Biology and Synthetic Biology Accelerate
In 2024, David Baker of the University of Washington won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for computationally designing proteins from amino acid sequences, alongside Demis Hassabis and John Temper of Google DeepMind for AlphaFold2, an AI model that solved the age-old protein folding problem with astonishing speed. This achievement has revitalized Synthetic and Generative Biology. In 2025, we can expect progress in training generative AI models to create new genetic sequences with specific properties, as well as developing new drugs, enzymes, and biomaterials using AI.
AI Learns About the Real World: Physics Enables Robotic Evolution
AI and machine learning models have rapidly advanced, particularly in understanding natural language. Large Language Models (LLMs) and their successors, Spatial Language Models (SLMs), are increasingly bridging the digital and physical worlds. This progress will accelerate as machine learning models gain a deeper understanding of physics and how the physical world operates—such as applying the correct pressure to grip objects, accounting for gravity, and navigating real-world constraints like solid walls. Platforms like NVIDIA’s Isaac Sim on AWS EC2 G6e will further this evolution. Early examples include Softbank’s Pepper and Tesla’s Optimus robots.
AI Moves to the Edge: From Cloud to Mobile Devices and IoT
LLMs have bridged the gap between the physical and digital worlds, enabling natural language to become the ultimate user interface. In 2024, devices like AI Pin and the Rabbit R1 hinted at this future. As 2024 ends and 2025 begins, Apple Intelligence is transforming the experience for proud owners of the iPhone 16 series. AI is moving closer to end-users, integrating into mobile phones, laptops, and disruptive devices like Rabbit R1 and smart glasses. Processing AI models directly on devices will improve privacy. In 2025, we will see this trend accelerate, putting AI literally into our hands.
There’s even a cottage industry on the dark web selling software to execute scams for prices ranging from $20 to thousands of dollars (Bloomberg). Deepfake apps are easily accessible on major app platforms, and some even offer the option to apply deepfakes in real-time video calls (as used in the Arup deepfake attack).
Whatever happens in 2025, have a very happy New Year!
Gautam Hazari, the founding father of mobile identity and a renowned expert in artificial intelligence, has been pioneering secure, human-centric identity solutions for decades. As Sekura.id’s Chief Technology Officer, Gautam blends his visionary expertise in mobile and digital identity with a deep understanding of fraud mitigation, helping to make the digital world safer. His latest innovations tackle today’s sophisticated fraud challenges, where AI and identity intersect. After all, as we navigate through the rising tides of deepfakes and identity risks, it’s clear that the humble SIM is far from obsolete—it’s our quiet, steadfast guardian.
