Straight White American Jesus - The Sunday Interview: He Saw Palantir’s AI Pick Targets in Gaza. Now It’s Coming to the US.

Palantir’s AI is helping decide who gets targeted in Gaza, and the same technology is already in use by US police and ICE. This week, Brad Onishi talks with Jacob Sprang, a humanitarian worker who spent about 18 months in Gaza and the occupied West Bank. He also worked in Sudan and Ukraine, and he sat on the executive committee of the INGO Forum and the Humanitarian Country Team.



Chapters (approximate)


00:00 Intro: Palantir, Lavender, and the Israeli military

04:00 Spring’s background in humanitarian work

06:00 What AI targeting looks like on the ground

08:50 How a point-based system flags people

12:40 COGAT’s three categories of “Hamas”

15:20 Taking the human out of the decision

17:50 “AI slop” as human slop

19:50 Geo-fenced SMS warnings and Maven

24:40 Data as the price of aid

29:10 The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation

38:40 Planned communities and manufactured scarcity

43:20 Why Spring came home

50:00 Palantir, ICE, and surveillance in the US

56:50 NSPM-7, “domestic enemies,” and the shrinking protected class

1:00:00 Closing thoughts


Guest

Jacob Sprang is a humanitarian worker. He is writing about his experiences on Substack. https://substack.com/@jakesprang



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