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Palantir manifesto described as ‘ramblings of a supervillain’ amid UK contract fears

Artificial intelligence (AI) | The Guardian
Aisha Down and Robert Booth

Alarm caused by posts of Alex Carp, tech firm’s CEO, championing US military dominance and of AI weapons The US spy tech company Palantir published a manifesto extolling the benefits of American power and implying some cultures are inferior to others – in what MPs have called “a parody of a RoboCop film” and “the ramblings of a supervillain”. “Some cultures have produced vital advances; others remain dysfunctional and regressive,” wrote Palantir in a 22-point post on X over the weekend, which also called for an end to the “postwar neutering” of Germany and Japan. Continue reading...