Palmer Luckey says Silicon Valley has the Pentagon all wrong: ‘Stick to a position that this is in the hands of the people’

Who should control AI? Are the corporations that release the powerful technology the arbiters of its fate? Or should that power be vested in the hands of the government?

Palmer Luckey, the founder of defense company Anduril—which aims to modernize the U.S. military—thinks the answer is straightforward: Give the power to the government. In a recent interview with the New York Post, the billionaire founder weighed in on a burgeoning debate around who gets to determine how AI is used by the government.

For the billionaire, it’s up to the government, and therefore, the people, to make specific use decisions. Otherwise, tech companies could imperil democracy.

“We need to stick to a position that this is in the hands of the people,” he said. “Anyone who says that a defense company should be going beyond the law, beyond what legislators and elected leaders say in terms of who they’ll work with and not, you are effectively saying you do not believe in this democratic experiment, that you want a ‘corporatocracy.’

“In all cases, whoever the United States government tells me that I can and cannot sell to,” he continued, “to have any other position is to fall further into … basically corporate executives having de facto control over U.S. foreign policy.”

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