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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Aisha Down and Robert Booth

Palantir manifesto described as ‘ramblings of a supervillain’ amid UK contract fears

Palantir CEO Alex Karp with the US national flag in the background
MPs have criticised Alex Karp over his recent pronouncements which embraces AI state surveillance and reinstating military draft in the US. Photograph: Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images

The US spy tech company Palantir published a manifesto extolling the benefits of American power and implying some cultures are inferior to others – in what MPs have called “a parody of a RoboCop film” and “the ramblings of a supervillain”.

“Some cultures have produced vital advances; others remain dysfunctional and regressive,” wrote Palantir in a 22-point post on X over the weekend, which also called for an end to the “postwar neutering” of Germany and Japan.

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