AI Killing-Machine Palantir Publishes Spartan Techno-Fascist Manifesto

April 24—Alexander C. Karp, the CEO of Peter Thiel’s tech firm Palantir, has published a manifesto mainly restating points he developed in the New York Times bestseller he wrote with Nicholas W. Zamiska, The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West.

Overwhelmed with questions, the X account of Palantir, on April 18, summarizes the manifesto, which has 22 points, which include a call for building “AI Weapons” (meaning automatic killing systems such as those currently deployed against Russia, Palestine, and Iran) and a return to a mandatory national military service for all, as discussed in the U.S. and Europe. Karp, as is known from earlier statements, opposes all forms of human empathy.

Karp is also known as a spartan personality for whom cold logic must rule over human sentiment. Even worse, Karp believes that “One age of deterrence, the atomic age, is ending, and a new era of deterrence built on A.I. is set to begin.” In short, if the U.S.A. gets Palantir’s AI, then it will be able to defeat any rival, nuclear or not.

The full text can be read in Palantir’s post on X. 

The 22-point manifesto was targeted again in RT April 21 by German writer Constantin von Hoffmeister, who has been a strong critic of Donald Trump. He writes that “we must dissect the alliance between corporate algorithmic power and the Zionist state. This is a new type of Newspeak, where ‘defense’ is a moral debt and ‘deterrence’ is the silent humming of an algorithm deciding who shall disappear.”

Von Hoffmeister compares this to George Orwell’s 1984, in which “the Party and the Corporation become indistinguishable.” He points to Palantir’s “strategic partnership” with the Israeli Ministry of Defense, finalized in early 2024 during a high-stakes visit by co-founders Peter Thiel and Alex Karp to Tel Aviv," a pact which “seeks to harness advanced data mining for ‘war-related missions.’” He adds: “Their corporate identity is so entwined with the Zionist project that Palantir held its first board meeting of 2024 in Israel, signaling that their ‘Technological Republic’ transcends borders when it comes to the enforcement of state power.”

On the Palantir role in the genocide in Gaza, von Hoffmeister writes: “By synthesizing massive datasets—surveillance footage, intercepted communications, and biometric records—the software assists in the production of targeting databases that function as automated ‘kill lists.’”