Just in case anyone thinks Palantir is just another IT/data management company here are a few bits from the Alex Karp (head honcho) 22 point ‘manifesto’ published recently on ‘X’:

Compulsory national service – aka everyone has to join the army

AI state surveillance of citizens

Some cultures and sub-cultures are “inferior” – decisions on which seems to fall to ... guess who???

Palantir will replace the global nuclear deterrent with a global AI deterrent – with Palantir in charge, natch. I’m sure no-one can see any problems with this at all ...

It was a mistake giving women the vote and they will probably no longer be allowed to (love the use of “giving” and “allowed”) because men are so good at all that tricky decision making stuff and never get anything wrong ... (actually just publishing this 22 point pile of crap probably goes against that view)

Isn’t it comforting to know that our security and our future is in such perceptive, reasonable and safe hands, that their involvement with our security systems, NHS, police data and surveillance systems is so well thought through and reasonable