JOE ALLEN: 9/11 happened, Patriot Act was signed, and the infrastructure built up for decades would be used not just against terrorists overseas, but dissenters on our soil. Fast forward to 2020: biosurveillance, contact tracing, and vaccination ops were facilitated by Palantir through their data analytics.
JOE ALLEN: Artificial intelligence, by way of @PalantirTech surveillance and data analytics coupled with AIs, is leading us to a place in which human beings are less and less involved in what is among the most important and sacred things that people do, which is to eliminate another human life. It may sound horrible to say that’s sacred, but I think anyone with any knowledge of history up to this point would say that warfare is in fact a sacred thing, and it’s being taken away from human beings.
Washington spent decades funding a soft-power apparatus that had quietly lost sight of its own purpose. USAID was conceived as an instrument for winning hearts […] Source