{"id":14497,"date":"2024-05-17T14:37:46","date_gmt":"2024-05-17T12:37:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/17\/were-the-peace-activists-my-surreal-soul-sucking-day-at-palantirs-first-ai-warfare-conference\/"},"modified":"2024-05-17T14:37:46","modified_gmt":"2024-05-17T12:37:46","slug":"were-the-peace-activists-my-surreal-soul-sucking-day-at-palantirs-first-ai-warfare-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/17\/were-the-peace-activists-my-surreal-soul-sucking-day-at-palantirs-first-ai-warfare-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We\u2019re the peace activists\u2019: my surreal, soul-sucking day at Palantir\u2019s first AI warfare conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>America\u2019s military industrial complex took center stage at AI Expo for National Competitiveness, where a fire-breathing panel set the tone<\/p>\n<p>On 7 and 8 May in Washington DC, the city\u2019s biggest convention hall welcomed America\u2019s military industrial complex, its top technology companies, and its most outspoken justifiers of war crimes. Of course, that\u2019s not how they would describe it.<\/p>\n<p>It was the inaugural \u201cAI Expo for National Competitiveness\u201d, hosted by the Special Competitive Studies Project \u2013 better known as the \u201ctechno-economic\u201d thinktank created by the former Google CEO and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2023\/nov\/20\/twelve-billionaires-climate-emissions-jeff-bezos-bill-gates-elon-musk-carbon-divide\">current billionaire Eric Schmidt<\/a>. The conference\u2019s lead sponsor was Palantir, a software company co-founded by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2023\/nov\/21\/palantir-peter-thiel-nhs-natural-target-outspoken-tech-billionaire\">Peter Thiel<\/a> that\u2019s best known for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/business\/2019\/08\/22\/war-inside-palantir-data-mining-firms-ties-ice-under-attack-by-employees\/\">inspiring 2019 protests<\/a> against its work with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) at the height of Trump\u2019s family separation policy. Currently, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2024-01-12\/palantir-israel-agree-to-strategic-partnership-for-battle-tech\">Palantir is supplying<\/a> some of its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/world\/nsa-palantir-israel-gaza-ai\/\">AI products to the Israel Defense Forces<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/article\/2024\/may\/17\/ai-weapons-palantir-war-technology\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/b25937f8f65e503e38d7bc4f244160e0d1a8b18b\/0_290_6000_3600\/master\/6000.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=89fdaed93801d965e7f4d901be234475\" title=\"\u2018We\u2019re the peace activists\u2019: my surreal, soul-sucking day at Palantir\u2019s first AI warfare conference\" \/>America\u2019s military industrial complex took center stage at AI Expo for National Competitiveness, where a fire-breathing panel set the tone<br \/>\nOn 7 and 8 May in Washington DC, the city\u2019s biggest convention hall welcomed America\u2019s military industrial complex, its top technology companies, and its most outspoken justifiers of war crimes. Of course, that\u2019s not how they would describe it.<br \/>\nIt was the inaugural \u201cAI Expo for National Competitiveness\u201d, hosted by the Special Competitive Studies Project \u2013 better known as the \u201ctechno-economic\u201d thinktank created by the former Google CEO and current billionaire Eric Schmidt. The conference\u2019s lead sponsor was Palantir, a software company co-founded by Peter Thiel that\u2019s best known for inspiring 2019 protests against its work with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) at the height of Trump\u2019s family separation policy. Currently, Palantir is supplying some of its AI products to the Israel Defense Forces. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>America\u2019s military industrial complex took center stage at AI Expo for National Competitiveness, where a fire-breathing panel set the tone On 7 and 8 May in Washington DC, the city\u2019s biggest convention hall welcomed America\u2019s military industrial complex, its top technology companies, and its most outspoken justifiers of war crimes. Of course, that\u2019s not how &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/17\/were-the-peace-activists-my-surreal-soul-sucking-day-at-palantirs-first-ai-warfare-conference\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018We\u2019re the peace activists\u2019: my surreal, soul-sucking day at Palantir\u2019s first AI warfare conference<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":14498,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14497"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14497\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}