Palmer Luckey says Silicon Valley has the Pentagon all wrong: ‘Stick to a position that this is in the hands of the people’

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Who should control AI? Are the corporations that release the powerful technology the arbiters of its fate? Or should that power be vested in the hands of the government?

Palmer Luckey, the founder of defense company Anduril—which aims to modernize the U.S. military—thinks the answer is straightforward: Give the power to the government. In a recent interview with the New York Post, the billionaire founder weighed in on a burgeoning debate around who gets to determine how AI is used by the government.