LLMs-gone-rogue dominated coverage, but had nothing to do with the targeting. Instead, it was choices made by human beings, over many years, that gave us this atrocity
Instead, it was choices made by human beings, over many years, that gave us this atrocity.
The targeting for Operation Epic Fury ran on a system called Maven. Nobody was arguing about Maven.
Eight years ago, Maven was the most contested project in Silicon Valley. In 2018, more than 4,000 Google employees signed a letter opposing the company’s contract to build artificial intelligence for the Pentagon’s targeting systems. Workers organised a walk out. Engineers quit. And Google ultimately abandoned the contract. Palantir Technologies, a data analytics company and defence contractor co-founded by Peter Thiel, took it over and spent the next six years building Maven into a targeting infrastructure that pulls together satellite imagery, signals intelligence and sensor data to identify targets and carry them through every step from first detection to the order to strike.
THE TRUTH IS FAR MORE WORRYING – THE MILITARY ASKED FOR IT AND PETER THIEL BUILT IT.
PUT THE TRUTHIN THE HEADLINE THEN
THE TRUTH IS FAR MORE WORRYING – THE MILITARY ASKED FOR IT AND PETER THIEL BUILT IT.