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PALANTIR USED GAZA’S “PANIC IMPRINT” TO CREATE AN AI MODEL THAT IT SOLD FOR HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS TO THE UK’S NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE TO HELP IT MANAGE MASS CASUALTY EVENTS.
A Palantir employee told Yanis Varoufakis that Palantir used the geolocation data of the mobile phones of terrified, fleeing, displaced Palestinians to generate a "panic imprint."
This imprint was then used to train an AI agent that was then sold as a product to the NHS for £1B to help hospital staff to manage mass casualty events eg motorway pile ups.
Israel's sustained bombardment of densely populated areas in Gaza forced civilians to flee frantically while carrying their mobile phones.
The movement of those phones - the geolocation data of terrified, displaced people - generated what the employee called a "panic imprint."
That data, extracted from a population under bombing, was used to train an AI agent designed to manage chaos in high-stress environments.
The same AI was then sold to the UK's National Health Service for roughly £1 billion, rebranded as a tool to help hospital staff manage panic during mass casualty events like motorway pile-ups.
The employee reportedly said it is only when people are running for their lives that the data becomes valuable, stationery phones are useless to them.
The biggest difference between experimentations of previous wars vs experimentations in Gaza, is that the ones done in Gaza were done wholly on a civilian population, as opposed to being done on military targets.
Israel has been "herding" the Palestinians of Gaza back and forth on a tiny strip of land.
That helped Palantir acquire more data on civilian movement under crisis and bombardment.
It shows just how involved Palantir is in this genocide.
Palantir has a longstanding contract with the Israeli Ministry of Defence. The Israeli military has used AI systems trained on Palestinian surveillance data in Gaza, as documented by +972 Magazine, The Guardian, and others. And Palantir holds a major NHS contract worth hundreds of millions of pounds to run the NHS Federated Data Platform, a deal that has been controversial since its announcement.
Read the transcript on the Substack post linked below.
Source: Yanis Varoufakis