βIβm the new Oppenheimer!β: my soul-destroying day at Palantirβs first-ever AI warfare conference
Americaβs 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 cityβs biggest convention hall welcomed Americaβs military-industrial complex, its top technology companies and its most outspoken justifiers of war crimes. Of course, thatβs not how they would describe it.
It was the inaugural βAI Expo for National Competitivenessβ, hosted by the Special Competitive Studies Project β better known as the βtechno-economicβ thinktank created by the former Google CEO and current billionaire Eric Schmidt. The conferenceβs lead sponsor was Palantir, a software company co-founded by Peter Thiel thatβs best known for inspiring 2019 protests against its work with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) at the height of Trumpβs family separation policy. Currently, Palantir is supplying some of its AI products to the Israel Defense Forces.
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