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In 2012, Palantir quietly embedded itself into the daily operations of the New Orleans Police Department. There were no public announcements. No contracts made available to the city council. Instead, the surveillance company partnered with a local nonprofit to sidestep oversight, gaining access to years of arrest records, licenses, addresses, and phone numbers all to build a shadowy predictive policing program.

Palantir’s software mapped webs of human relationships, assigned residents algorithmic “risk scores,” and helped police generate “target lists” all without public knowledge. “We very much like to not be publicly known,” a Palantir engineer wrote in an internal email later obtained by The Verge.

After years spent quietly powering surveillance systems for police departments and federal agencies, the company has rebranded itself as a frontier AI firm, selling machine learning platforms designed for military dominance and geopolitical control.

"AI is not a toy. It is a weapon,” said CEO Alex Karp. “It will be used to kill people.”

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[–] Mrkawfee@lemmy.world -3 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

Yep. I read some of his non fiction and he was clearly. a little Englander xenophobe. I have no doubt he would have supported Brexit and be hostile to.immigrants if he was around today.

[–] RedditIsDeddit@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago

you really shouldn't project that shit on the other people without really knowing for sure

[–] Bloomcole@lemmy.world -1 points 7 hours ago

Very much hated blacks and gays. He stole the Animal farm idea that was about nazism and made it into anti-communist propaganda.
Also tried to rape a girl when he wasn't busy being a rat and snitching on left-wing elements he infiltrated.
Total scum.