Labour and Lib Dem MPs demand ‘shameful’ Palantir NHS contract be scrapped | Palantir

Palantir should be forbidden in the whole of Europe. *Immediately.*

Last weekend, Palantir’s CEO Karp [posted](https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/palantir-corporate-manifesto) a manifesto on Twitter. It’s as sick as one would expect.

These people are pure evil. Their goal is a technofascist society. They need to be stopped. Palantir needs to be stopped. Palantir should not be allowed anywhere in Europe. But our politicians aren’t going to ban Palantir out of themselves. There is even hardly any debate about it in politics. So there needs to be public pressure and outrage. That’s the only way to make them listen and act.

Palantir is the sort of thing everyone should hate. Irrespective of political affiliation, they’re pure evil.

I work in the UK public sector, although not in the NHS. My organisation has had a suite of tools developed by Palantir which are being heavily pushed – and I do mean heavily. The suite is being lauded as nothing but positive and any criticism or objection is ignored or waved away. I sat in a demo last week, quietly horrified as this suite did part of my job. I’m concerned about my job and the ethical implications of AI, but am made to feel like I’m some tinfoil hat-wearing nutjobl if I say anything. We have constant budget constraints and have just gone through a round of voluntary redundancy/mutually-agreed resignations, all while public money is being paid to this unethical, immoral and (frankly) incredibly dangerous company. I feel like I’ve taken crazy pills.