The Silicon Panopticon: Palantir's Militarization of AI and the Erosion of Digital Liberty
The Silicon Panopticon: Palantir’s Militarization of AI and the Erosion of Digital Liberty In the dystopian fiction many of us grew up reading, surveillance states weren’t built by governments alone—they were constructed through public-private partnerships with corporations eager to profit from omniscience. Today, that fiction has materialized in the form of Palantir Technologies, a company whose very name—drawn from the corrupting “seeing stones” of Tolkien’s Middle Earth—betrays its function: to watch, to know, and to enable action based on that knowledge. ...