The high-tech company Palantir, founded by billionaire Peter Thiel with initial CIA funding, is making moves to expand its reach beyond domestic surveillance services for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Thiel is not only a pioneer in the funding of the “legal” cannabis industry. The company has released a video demo of its latest offering, the Palantir Artificial Intelligence Platform (AIP), which is designed to integrate large language models (LLMs) like OpenAI’s GPT-4 and Google’s BERT into privately-operated networks.
In the video, says an April 27 article published by the Mataverse Post, “Palantir showcased how its software could be used by the military in modern warfare scenarios. An operator could use a ChatGPT-style chatbot to order drone reconnaissance, generate attack plans, and coordinate the jamming of enemy communications.”
Therefore, “the launch of Palantir’s AIP is sure to raise questions about the ethical implications of Palantir’s involvement in military operations.”
(Already in February, Palantir CEO Alex Karp had been interviewed by the CIA-affinity Washington Post columnist David Ignatius, and told Ignatius how Palantir’s AI capabilities had been provided to the Ukrainian military, implying —to Ignatius at least — that Palantir AI was “winning” the war for Ukraine.)
