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The US is to spend $480 million on a Palantir AI tool to identify terrorists in the Middle East, which so far has been used in a military conflict where 80% of the dead are civilians. (defensescoop.com)
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[โ€“] Philharmonic3@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

This is so unbelievably fucked up. How are people not storming the doors of these companies? How are people not showing up in force to stop this evil craziness that LITERALLY NAMED ITSELF AFTER SOMETHING EVIL???

[โ€“] beebarfbadger@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

Oh you mean the capitalist heroes who produce incredibly expensive and therefor valuable technology, create jobs, boost the economy and eliminate terrorists? What is a civilian but a corpse that doesn't yet know that it'll have been a terrorist for the purposes of statistics? Their own fault for being killable in the first place - they basically asked for it.

Shareholder value tops human life, tops the livable environment of future generations, we have an unofficial new god.