The buried lede in the story about Palantir’s role in Afghanistan is this sentence: I knew his face. I doubted the computer. I was right. If you doubt Palantir, you’re probably right. In other words, the American company shamelessly built an overpriced and unaccountable “justice” system that tries to paint the world with an overly … Continue reading Lessons of Afghanistan: If you doubt Palantir, you’re probably right.
I’ve covered this before, when Elon Musk uses the “some of my best friends are” defense. It’s wrong to use for many well known and studied reasons, including being clearly racist. Here’s yet another example of him using it, as if he really doesn’t care. The forthcoming book Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter, … Continue reading “My Good Friend is Black”: Elon Musk Gives Racist Response to Concerns About Twitter Racism
It’s no secret Peter Thiel’s grandparents were Nazis who sent their family fortunes after losing WWII into South African apartheid, then somehow endied up with him meddling in the “business” of promoting American fascism. In 2016, Peter Thiel, the contrarian billionaire and co-founder of PayPal, had been the only prominent Valley figure to support Trump, … Continue reading Peter Thiel Exposed in Nazi Rant, Planting J.D. Vance to Overthrow Democracy
Scientists, not to mention digital ethics experts, are warning that OpenAI may still be up to no good. Apparently it is being run by a dangerous man whose continuous intentional deceptions now pose a direct threat to democracy. Here, a scientist who appeared with Altman before the US Senate on AI safety flags up the … Continue reading OpenAI Giant Private Trojan Horse: Grave Dangers That CISOs Must Manage ASAP