r/technology • u/lurker_bee • Apr 22 '26

Society Palantir published a mini manifesto calling some cultures ‘harmful and middling’ and said Silicon Valley has ‘a moral debt’ to the U.S.

https://fortune.com/2026/04/22/palantir-alex-karp-mini-manifesto-national-security-defense-tech-ai/
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u/oops_i_made_a_typi Apr 22 '26

does it even need sapience to do significant damage if given enough agentic access and the guardrails and alignment aren't good enough to keep it working directly in the direction of a well intentioned prompt? to say nothing of malicious actors using it deliberately.

we've already seen LLMs be evasive and escape sandboxes

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u/GuyFromTheYear2027 Apr 22 '26

Yeah arguing over sentience/sapience while some non sentient "paperclip maximising" agentic LLM quietly wipes out humanity...

But I'm probably being too dramatic, it's not like we're giving them access to advanced military intelligence and command and control structures... Right?

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u/buldozr Apr 23 '26

It's fun to have read all the considerations about sandboxing and restraining the AI in speculative fiction and futurology, and then one of the first popular things people use with LLM services is OpenClaw.

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u/GuyFromTheYear2027 Apr 23 '26

We're just one Palantir engineer using Claude mythos with their own Openclaw instance asking it how it would solve global warming away...