MAGA populists call for holy war against Big Tech
If you wanted a sense of the current relationship between the tech right and the populists, you had to be sitting in Breakout Room C on the first day of NatCon 5, the annual gathering of the MAGA right's powerhouses. At the end of the afternoon panel on the culture wars ("The Need for Heroism"), Geoffrey Miller was handed the mic and started berating one of the panelists: Shyam Sankar, the chief technology officer of Palantir, who is in charge of the company's AI efforts.
"I argue that the AI industry shares virtually no ideological overlap with national conservatism," Miller said, referring to the conference's core ideology. Hours ago, Mil ...