"Your company is named for seeing stones. Used to view things at a very long distance in J. R. R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings. Also worth noting that in the course of Tolkien's story, they fall into the wrong hands and are used for evil as well. The naming choice was intentional. It's a built-in warning and a reminder to us."
"Is artificial intelligence about to revolutionize warfare? Help the United States win an arms race with China? Or place us all under digital surveillance? My guest today was recently commissioned as a Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. Army reserves. And in his day job. He's the chief technology officer of Palantir, a company whose relationship to the U.S. government is increasingly profitable and immensely controversial."
"We're a software company. And we build software that allows you to manage your data to make better decisions. And I think that's best understood through an example. So I spent a lot of my time helping companies manufacture things really the reindustrialization of America. So if you're a manufacturer, you have a system called a PLM system, a Product Lifecycle Management system, that you use to design your"
The company name derives from Tolkien's seeing stones and serves as an intentional warning about potential misuse. The organization builds software that manages data to enable better decisions, applied across industry and government. The company works with manufacturers on product lifecycle systems as part of reindustrialization efforts. The firm maintains increasingly profitable relationships with the U.S. government and military, raising controversy about surveillance and ethics. Questions arise about artificial intelligence transforming warfare, contributing to an arms race with China, and the potential for expanded digital surveillance tied to these technologies.
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