Article 6YAR8 Peter Thiel’s Palantir poses a grave threat to Americans | Robert Reich

Peter Thiel’s Palantir poses a grave threat to Americans | Robert Reich

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Robert Reich
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Working with the Trump administration, the data company could be used to target the president's opponents

Draw a circle around all the assets in the US now devoted to artificial intelligence.

Draw a second circle around all the assets devoted to the US military.

The 1920s were the last decade in American history during which one could be genuinely optimistic about politics. Since 1920, the vast increase in welfare beneficiaries and the extension of the franchise to women - two constituencies that are notoriously tough for libertarians - have rendered the notion of capitalist democracy' into an oxymoron.

Robert Reich, a former US secretary of labor, is a professor of public policy emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a Guardian US columnist. His newsletter is at robertreich.substack.com

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