I worry about Palantir’s role in unchecked mass surveillance but anduril seems necessary given how wasteful and ineffective the incumbent defense contractors are. Adversaries are going there and mutual escalation seems inevitable.
Niceice was looking for an example where Palantir did something heinous, not an example where they did something good and righteous like in your linked source.
Were Peter Thiel et al ignorant of the ethical complexity around the Palantirs, that a sufficiently powerful user could control and distort what other users saw? Or was that part of the sales pitch?
Those companies have always existed. The main difference is that their PR teams have convinced the press to use the relatively-neutral term "tech company". It's of course a lot less attractive to have a headline like:
"Mass surveillance company Palantir and drone vendor Anduril form partnership..."
But hey, they use computers, so they are a tech company now! Just like Tesla isn't a car company, so you should totally value their stock like one of those big tech companies doing Magic Cloud Stuff.
Also a significant number of palantir senior leadership moved over to Andruil years ago. I would imagine this “fellowship” between the two companies has been in place for quite some time already
How much of Palantir's business is regular law enforcement vs intelligence vs other things?
Intelligence work is, I would imagine, very dirty work at the best of times, and someone has to do it. My understanding is, what Palantir does there is kind of like CRM for terrorist groups. Not skynet or click-to-bomb software (I have no inside knowledge).
Police work doesn't have to be as dirty, not to regular citizens anyway, and I'm not sure how I would feel to be included in a Palantir-enabled all-encompassing pre-crime database.
The same people propup the current genocide taking place in Palestine and the war in Ukraine. Their goal is neverending war with neverending profit at the expense of local populations.
Don't invest in amoral enterprises.
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[ 15.4 ms ] story [ 1280 ms ] threadhttps://www.morningstar.com/news/pr-newswire/20241209ny74705...
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/rymy7ret6
The cloud?
Were Peter Thiel et al ignorant of the ethical complexity around the Palantirs, that a sufficiently powerful user could control and distort what other users saw? Or was that part of the sales pitch?
I for one don't think moving fast and breaking things is a good approach to weaponized AI, but hey.
"Mass surveillance company Palantir and drone vendor Anduril form partnership..."
But hey, they use computers, so they are a tech company now! Just like Tesla isn't a car company, so you should totally value their stock like one of those big tech companies doing Magic Cloud Stuff.
Intelligence work is, I would imagine, very dirty work at the best of times, and someone has to do it. My understanding is, what Palantir does there is kind of like CRM for terrorist groups. Not skynet or click-to-bomb software (I have no inside knowledge).
Police work doesn't have to be as dirty, not to regular citizens anyway, and I'm not sure how I would feel to be included in a Palantir-enabled all-encompassing pre-crime database.