If it wasn't for the grace of God and America, his father said he would be dead in a ditch in Lagos. For Shyam Sankar, an Indian-origin Chief Technology Officer at Palantir and Lieutenant Colonel in US Army, it is important to rearm Western democracies. And he is doing just that with the help of AI.
The 43-year-old officer working at one of the most successful US data analytics firms is all set to publish his book 'Mobilize: How to Reboot The American Industrial Base and Stop World War III'. As per The Times, he described the book as a celebration of "crazy duded" who overcame oppressive defence procurement bureaucracy to rearm the West. “Will we look back at this moment and realise that World War III had already started, and we just didn’t know it?” he writes at the start of the book.
