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The US is to spend $480 million on a Palantir AI tool to identify terrorists in the Middle East, which so far has been used in a military conflict where 80% of the dead are civilians. (defensescoop.com)

submitted 5 months ago by Lugh to c/futurology

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[–] beebarfbadger@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Oh you mean the capitalist heroes who produce incredibly expensive and therefor valuable technology, create jobs, boost the economy and eliminate terrorists? What is a civilian but a corpse that doesn't yet know that it'll have been a terrorist for the purposes of statistics? Their own fault for being killable in the first place - they basically asked for it.

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