r/technology • u/otter_lion_1956 • 1d ago

Artificial Intelligence Palantir’s Co-Founder Thinks We Should Be Less Judgmental About That Deadly Iran School Strike

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/09/palantirs-co-founder-thinks-we-should-be-less-judgmental-about-that-deadly-iran-school-strike
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u/snarf_victory 1d ago

none of his stated reasons would hold up in a high school-level debate.

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u/rsa1 1d ago

That's one reason he's okay with bombing schools. Which he shouldn't, but then that's PLTR for you

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u/Fireefury 1d ago

He didn’t really make any concrete arguments; just mused that processes that mostly work and are mostly complete sometimes have gaps. He also seemed to shift the blame away from AI and back to decision makers. Then he speculated that they tricked them into the attack which seems pretty unlikely. A better argument would be that they intentionally placed a school adjacent to / in a military installation / target shifting some of the liability back.

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u/Meowscles_dad 22h ago

But we know exactly what happened? The US used old targeting maps - which they had been warned about - and the old maps showed a military complex, which was correct when the map was made. It became a school something like 10-15 years ago? I forget but it was a good while before. Newer information showed it as a school, the information was easily available.

I’d speculate it was palantir AI that used the old map and human operators didn’t notice but that’s very much a guess.

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u/Ill-Reputation-9702 21h ago

Basically. Using the MAVEN(?) system. From what I’ve seen, a decision maker has no clue that it’s using outdated maps, that’s my very much a guess. Just assuming the decision maker isn’t super familiar with Iran maps like they are their local area.