The US spy tech company (yes that's what they are, AI spies,) Palantir in a bid to promote a book, Tech Republic, witten by Alex Karp its founder, CEO and wannabe pan - galactic evil emperor, published via its page on X, a manifesto extolling the benefits of American power, predicting a future global technocratic dictatorship and implying some cultures are inferior to others – in what UK Members of Parliament from across the political spectrumPs 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 the 22-point manifesto post on X last week. The manifesto also called for an end to the “postwar neutering” of Germany and Japan.
The post exhorted the US to reinstate a military draft, saying that “free and democratic societies” need “hard power” in order to prevail. Karp's vision of a free and democratic world involves mass surveillance, facial recognition and AI systems fingering potential criminals o they can be arrested before they can commit any crimes.
It also predicted a future dominated by autonomous weapons: “The question is not whether A.I. weapons will be built; it is who will build them and for what purpose. Our adversaries will not pause to indulge in theatrical debates about the merits of developing technologies with critical military and national security applications. They will proceed.”
The pronouncement is the most recent of a number of high-profile statements from Palantir and its chief executive, Alex Karp, which appear to indicate that Karp views himself as not simply the head of a software company, but a pundit with important insights into the future of civilisation. Palantir's business model is based on 'scraping' data from all internet connected ststems to build 'large language models' from which the fake intelligence of Artificial Intelligence povides themeans through which authoritarian regimes can control us. The rise of Palantir equals the death of privacy.
The Boggart Bloggers view is that he is trying to get himself into a quasi - political group we often refer to, The Billionaire psychopaths club, those incredibly rich individuals who presume their combined wealth can create the technocratic dictatorship they dream of.
In the Palantir “manifesto” we see predictions of the culmination of a US political economy that’s been in global domination overdrive since the dissolution of the Soviet Union. The imperialist wars abroad for global hegemony are the flip side of the war against democratic rights/working conditions at home.
To us ordinary folk who live lives untroubled by megalomaniacal desires for world domination, this ‘manifesto’ reads more like dystopian fiction that a route map to the promised land. In this age of ‘the tyranny of capital’, it is merely a handbook for how best to hsupport the insane oligarchic class usurp to themselves even more power over the minutae of our lives, contol of wealth ,and the corresponding immiseration of the masses which must accompany it.
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