Tag: palantir

  • ‘It beggars belief’: MoD sources warn Palantir’s role at heart of government is threat to UK’s security

    Charlie Young & Carole Cadwalladr · The Nerve

    “When you have that mosaic built from UK sovereign defence, health, roads, power networks, power stations, and our major industrial bases, you have a detailed understanding of virtually every aspect of the sovereign United Kingdom. For an adversary, or even a nation with whom we have a special relationship, that picture is worth more than all the fine art on Earth.” 

  • How US Intelligence and an American Company Feed Israel’s Killing Machine in Gaza

    James Bamford · The Nation.

    The project involved selling the ministry an Artificial Intelligence Platform that uses reams of classified intelligence reports to make life-or-death determinations about which targets to attack. In an understatement several years ago, Karp admitted, “Our product is used on occasion to kill people,” the morality of which even he himself occasionally questions. “I have asked myself, ‘If I were younger at college, would I be protesting me?’”