Palantir and automated genocide

Rating :: 4
Completed :: 2025-08-20

Notes

• Tech washing is making a faulty machine (ie for flagging Palestinians as supposedly terrorists) and blaming the system for the actions you make from its assessments
• Use of everyday social media helps create weaponised tech. When you use technology, consider the worst case it could be used in, because we have no safeguards. Facebook's facial recognition is now available for companies (is it being used by Palantir?), and was trained on your profile data.
• Tech companies naturally erode their morals. Palantir started with aims to protect (or not compromise) civil rights, but it quickly stopped caring about this. Now, they flat out confess they're content to kill people if necessary.

I think this podcast is a great example of Why you should care about your data.