Palantir manifesto described as ‘ramblings of a supervillain’ amid UK contract fears
by Aisha Down and Robert Booth from World news | The Guardian on (#75332)
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.
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