US EditionSupervillain or Cicero? Why Palantir’s Manifesto Has Such Sinister Vibes
The manifesto says technological strength is a moral duty and rejects pluralism, drawing widespread criticism as Palantir seeks to shape policy and power.
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Palantir Unmasked: Its Digital Technology Is Tyranny » Sons of Liberty Media
Last week, Palantir Technologies, headed by Peter Thiel and Alex Karp, released a technological manifesto. However, it was more of a dystopian blueprint than anything else. Palantir has unmasked itself, revealing its authoritarian face and desire for control over humanity. To be fair, Palntir is only one of several major technology companies that sell their …
Alex Karp, head of the US security company Palantir, is making a fuss with a political manifesto – and dozens of millions of clicks. The entrepreneurial philosophy calls for an upgrade with AI weapons and speaks of a hierarchy of cultures. An expert explains what the influential CEO really pursues.
Alex Karp's manifesto is the blueprint for a post-democratic order. A data corporation as the guardian of the state? No, thank you!
Supervillain or Cicero? Why Palantir’s manifesto has such sinister vibes
Fabrice Coffrini / Getty ImagesEarlier this month, multibillion-dollar US tech company Palantir posted on X a summary of its chief executive Alex Karp’s recent book, the portentously titled The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West. The book and the post offer a kind of manifesto, making sweeping claims about a hierarchy of civilisations, the rejection of pluralism, Silicon Valley’s moral obligation to US mi…
We could say in precise terms, without making much mistakes, that Palantir is like the digital backbone of Western military power. What inspires me in his Manifesto has nothing to do with a technological improvement. He has invited me to write these lines because, probably, I have interpreted it as the intellectual legitimization of a control architecture that is already operational. In other words, even more devastating, the document does not t…
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