"If you wanted a sense of the current relationship between the tech right and the populists, you had to be sitting in Breakout Room C on the first day of NatCon 5, the annual gathering of the MAGA right's powerhouses. At the end of the afternoon panel on the culture wars ("The Need for Heroism"), Geoffrey Miller was handed the mic and started berating one of the panelists: Shyam Sankar, the chief technology officer of Palantir, who is in charge of the company's AI efforts."
""I argue that the AI industry shares virtually no ideological overlap with national conservatism," Miller said, referring to the conference's core ideology. Hours ago, Miller, a psychology professor at the University of New Mexico, had been on that stage for a panel called "AI and the American Soul," calling for the populists to wage a literal holy war against artificial intelligence developers "as betra"
NatCon 5 convened MAGA movement leaders and revealed acute tensions between tech-aligned figures and populist conservatives. Panelists depicted AI developers as ideologically distant from national conservatism and accused tech executives of lacking loyalty to conservative aims. Geoffrey Miller publicly confronted Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar and urged aggressive responses toward the AI industry. Speakers characterized Big Tech as a threat to Western civilization and encouraged populist activism against perceived technological and cultural dominance. The event underscored a widening rift within conservatism over AI, corporate power, and cultural influence.
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