The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West

Alex Karp of the now infamous Palentir AI company has written a book with a predictable title: James Corbett covers it, and recommends further reading.

"We are controversial, quite frankly, because we power every western power that's at war"

'Palantir’s tech helps detect unusual or suspicious patterns in large datasets using techniques that the founders learned working together at PayPal. The CIA was one of the company’s earliest investors and its only customer for a number of years. Eventually, other intelligence agencies like the FBI and the NSA jumped aboard.'

Karp was personally protested when acting on behalf of ICE, in tracking migrants.  Dystopian predictive crime was also a focus.

Karp: "Palantir is here to disrupt and make the institutions we partner with the very best in the world, and, when it’s necessary, to scare our enemies and on occasion kill them."

Karp on Iran situation: CNBC interview.
"Palentir makes valuable LLMs lethal and useful on the battlefield"
"A wide swath of Palentirians working on this."

"drones going through advanced radar systems". ...Can be done with great precision now.
"You have to bring your unique way of doing things which no one else has"

Karp says can't do a blue/red debate. "Nationalisation is coming"..."We need a common purpose"

"We are controversial, quite frankly, because we power every western power that's at war"