Palantir CEO says the AI military future is already upon us
Nation states representatives weren’t the only people in attendance. The summit also welcomed industry excerpts and private industry executives like Palantir CEO Alex Karp. During his speech, Karp reportedly said the Ukrainian military’s recent use of AI to positively identify target on the battlefield had moved the question of AI weapons away from “highly erudite ethics discussion,” to something with immediate real world consequences. The CEO previously said Ulkranians are using Palantir’s controversial data analytics software to carry out some of that targeting.
Karp, who has faced criticism from U.S. civil liberties groups for helping fuel a wave of so-called predictive policing tactics in major cities, agreed that there should be more transparency around the data used by AI weapons systems, but simultaneously said it was important for western countries not to fall behind China and Russia in the tech race.
“One of the major things we need to do in the West, is realise this lesson is completely understood by China and Russia,” Karp said, according to Reuters.
