Army says it’s part of plan to tap latest AI technology from private sector that will increase ‘efficiencies’ on the battlefields (i.e. killing fields) of the future. In race to defeat China will we become China?
Executives from Meta, Palantir, and OpenAI are being sworn into the Army Reserves at the rank of lieutenant colonel. That’s an officer’s rank typically reserved for someone who has served for years and has led thousands of men into combat.
Known as Detachment 201, the new “Executive Innovation Corps” will be responsible for the military’s tech transformation, integrating new technologies such as AI-powered drones and humanoid robots, the Army announced on June 13.
Patrick Wood, editor in chief of Technocracy.News and an expert on the global technocracy movement, said the move is unprecedented.
“In the history of the military, no civilian has been summarily appointed to rank of lieutenant colonel until recently,” Wood told me in an exclusive interview. “The rules changed in 2019 when the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) authorized the practice. Not surprisingly, the staff that created NDAA were populated with Technocrats.”
According to Defense Scoop, the move is the latest push by the Pentagon to tap into capabilities and know-how from Silicon Valley and the private sector.
The new unit “brings top tech talent into the Army Reserve to bridge the commercial-military tech gap” and is “designed to fuse cutting-edge tech expertise with military innovation,” the Army stated in a press release.
The Army is set to swear-in Meta’s chief technology officer Andrew Bosworth, OpenAI’s chief product officer Kevin Weil, Palantir’s Chief Technology Officer Shyam Sankar and Bob McGrew, an advisor at Thinking Machines Lab who was previously OpenAI’s chief research officer.
Meta, which owns Facebook, recently announced a new partnership with defense tech company Anduril to develop extended reality (XR) products for soldiers, according to Defense Scoop.
OpenAI is the creator of ChatGPT, the popular generative AI tool. According to Defense Scoop, the U.S. Pentagon is pursuing new genAI tools to “boost productivity and efficiency.”
Palantir uses AI-powered software to collect and analyze data on Americans as well as foreign nationals. It has or is working on developing various government contracts, including with the Department of Defense, CIA, FBI, IRS, ICE and local law enforcement agencies. Palantir also supplies the Israeli government with its Maven Smart System, which provides targeting data for soldiers in its various wars, from Gaza to Lebanon to Iran. If the Maven Smart System says to blow up a building because a couple of Hamas combatants are inside, that building gets blown up, as modern warfare increasingly turns such decisions over to AI. Maven Smart System has an admitted 10 percent failure rate. Apparently if AI is right 90 percent of the time in deciding who gets killed, that’s OK with the politicians who control the world’s military forces.
Palantir’s AI-driven products are capable of creating highly detailed dossiers on people by quickly scanning their social media, bank records, phone records and other data.
Regarding the automatic officer status of Palantir, OpenAI and Meta execs, the Army stated in its press release:
“Detachment 201 is an effort to recruit senior tech executives to serve part-time in the Army Reserve as senior advisors. In this role they will work on targeted projects to help guide rapid and scalable tech solutions to complex problems. By bringing private-sector know-how into uniform, Detachment 201 is supercharging efforts like the Army Transformation Initiative, which aims to make the force leaner, smarter, and more lethal.”
The swearing-in of the four new officers “is just the start of a bigger mission to inspire more tech pros to serve without leaving their careers, showing the next generation how to make a difference in uniform,” per the release.
I can’t help but wonder how much of this is going to be turned inward against the American people. These types of “innovations” and “tools,” as the government likes to call them, almost always end up being used for purposes other than merely what is announced.
Taken in the context of President Trump’s creepy public-private partnership with OpenAI in Operation Stargate, along with his enforcement of the Real ID Act. If there was ever any doubt, Trump announced his intentions in an August 2016 speech “We will have a proper tracking system” for all people coming in and out of America.
Here’s the full quote from that 2016 Trump campaign speech:
“We will finally complete the Biometric Entry/Exit Visa Tracking System which we need desperately. It will be on land, sea, and air. We will have a proper tracking system.”
UPDATE: What Trump publicly dreamed about doing in 2016 has now come to pass. Funding for his “proper tracking system” was included in the Big Beautiful Bill passed today, July 3, by Congress. He will sign it with much fanfare, likely tomorrow, on July 4th. His sycophants will cheer their own enslavement.
So, it’s becoming quite clear that this administration is being used to hand Americans over to a soon-to-be globalized digital surveillance system. And they’re doing it in Warp Speed.
In my opinion, the most dangerous of all these fascist corporations is Palantir, due to the sheer scale of its involvement with the federal government, across multiple civilian agencies as well as the military.
In July 2022, the Defense Post reported that the US Army Research Laboratory awarded Palantir a contract to implement artificial intelligence and machine-learning capabilities for the service’s combatant commands.
The $100 million contract will see the company produce software platforms that quickly implement advanced AI capabilities in battlefield situations.
According to Palantir, the armed forces need “best-in-class” software to fulfill missions and boost capabilities to prepare for future conflicts.
The warfare of the future has most dramatically played out in Israeli use of technology to assassinate top commanders of Hezbollah, Hamas and the Iranian Republican Guard Corps. It was also evident in Ukraine’s drone attack on Russian strategic bombers.
“Maintaining a leading edge through technology is foundational to our mission and partnership with the Army Research Laboratory,” said Palantir President Akash Jain said. “We are honored to support this critical work by teaming up to deliver the most advanced operational AI capabilities available with dozens of commercial and public sector partners.”
Palantir Senior Vice President Shannon Clark explained that the 2022 contract will allow US Army personnel to leverage AI insights to make quick decisions across multiple domains.
“From outer space to the sea floor, and everything in between,” she stressed.
And that includes U.S. cities when the current or future president declares martial law. Mark my words, Palantir and companies like it will at some point become the suppliers of software that helps the U.S. government hunt down political dissidents, which will include outspoken Christians and various other truthtellers.
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It’s terrible that our government has been taken over by the billionaire, kleptocratic class. BTW, many neocon Zionist billionaires attended Trump’s inauguration because they made sure Trump got elected. Were any of you average MAGA voters invited to attend his inauguration and sit in the places of honor?? No?? Because your little one-man vote really didn’t matter, just like the last election. This class fully intends to one day reduce the US population to abject feudalism and not only the US, but the world at large. That’s why there’s so much saber-rattling going on by this class with Trump (previously Biden) as their megaphone. Our thoroughly corrupted elected officials are cheerleaders for it. Look how many countries US foreign policy has utterly wrecked over the past 6 decades. Look how our own economy and monetary system is thoroughly corrupted and teetering on disaster by this class to carry out their agendas. How all this chaos and mayhem their mobbed-up black-ops and NGOs are doing world-wide comes out of our pocket, making us poorer, and may soon plunge us into WWIII.
Paul Thiel of Palantir is only one of those billionaire oligarchs who actively funded Trump’s campaign. Thiel is very pro-Israel and supports Christian Zionist political candidates to make sure that our foreign policy is “Israel First”. Palantir’s AI weapons systems are currently being used by Israel to exterminate all Gazans found in its crosshairs. And Thiel knows exactly what his products are being used for. Gaza is the test ground for future AI military operations elsewhere—count on it. Watch the various methods of aggressive population reduction being used there—the starvation, carpet bombing, sniping of children, bombing of hospitals and all infrastructure, the daily mass shooting by the IDF and American mercenaries at aid distribution sites. All this systematic destruction to bring a people to ruin and extinction. Netanyahu said 2 months ago that he doesn’t care about Hamas or the hostage—he just wanted the Palestinians gone. Was anyone taking seriously his Hitlerian talk and recognizing it for what it was??
Don’t think these war crimes wouldn’t be done here?? Of course, it would—what’s to stop it? The rule of law? Nobody follows it, least of all Trump who has consistently violated the Constitution at many points and totally disregards international law. Don’t forget historical precedent. We did the same to the American Indians using low tech and government policy. Our government led extermination campaigns, then deliberately reduced the survivors into submission by taking away their traditional economy and boxing them on reservations. Perhaps the Israelis learned their genocidal procedures both from us and the Nazis (who had also been supported by our elites). And now our modern corporations provide high tech to do it because there’s big bucks in high tech wholesale murder. Remember their goal is to reduce the world’s population of useless eaters–”for the sake of the planet”.
Which is the reason for all the wars going on now and soon to be in the future. This kleptocracy class that has our government by the throat has megalomaniac geopolitical ambitions, and they know that drugged-up, liquored-up or video-gamed Americans will not do a thing to stop it. Even worse, many of the “christian” zionist cult—like Ted Cruz and Mike Huckabee– will actually cheer it on, thinking Rapture will relieve them of the consequences, not realizing how these man-made catastrophes will one day return upon us and our descendants with a vengeance.
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Right is right and wrong is wrong…. no matter who does it… or when. Israelis were subjected to the Covid jab first Meanwhile, the “Palantir PIMPS*****” are out to subjugate us all. *****PIMPS = Political / Intelligence / Military / Personnel Strategists
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