Palantir CEO Says a Surveillance State Is Preferable to China Winning the AI Race

Not to mention, we sold China their surveillance tech which has given them the upper hand in this “race” we never agreed to participate in.

The data collecting capabilities of an authoritarian surveillance state (which we created and sold to China) are allegedly what we will have to accept because it’s necessary to win this imaginary race with China…

I know not everybody is a “crazy conspiracy theorist,” but does that logic not seem the slightest bit obviously fucked? How much of a “conspiracy” is it really to just acknowledge there are wealthy people in positions of power who don’t have our best interest in mind when they talk about making America great and beating China?

US tech companies enabled the surveillance and detention of hundreds of thousands in China

US government allowed and even helped US firms sell tech used for surveillance in China

Detailed findings from AP investigation into how US tech firms enabled China’s digital police state

American tech companies to a large degree designed and built China’s surveillance state, playing a far greater role in enabling human rights abuses than previously known, an Associated Press investigation found. They sold billions of dollars of technology to the Chinese police, government and surveillance companies, despite repeated warnings from the U.S. Congress and in the media that such tools were being used to quash dissent, persecute religious sects and target minorities.