Colorado Is at the Center of a Fight for Democracy and the Future of AI

Alex Karp of Palantir Technologies , the Denver -based big data and AI analytics company, said, “I love the idea of getting a drone and having light fentanyl-laced urine sprayed on analysts that tried to screw us.” Karp ’s executive partner, Shyam Sankar , publicly targeted and condemned an ABC reporter for a piece she hadn’t even published yet, supposedly critical of Karp . Days later , on February 25 , on Donald Trump posted a gruesome, AI -generated movie of Gaza with Trump Hotels and golden idols of the president.

Julian Zelizer spent a year and a half working as a writer and graphic designer at Palantir Technologies in its headquarters in Denver .

Zelizer: The company's success owes as much to its success as to its effective marshaling of language and cult-like shibboleths.

He says Colorado is at the center of a fight over the exploitation enabled by the mass adoption of AI technologies in society and warfare.

Ecuadorian , American and Russian-Ukrainian heritage, whose great-grandparents crossed through Ellis Island and the Port of Philadelphia .

This is not the America I sought to immigrate to, but more akin to totalitarian governments I experienced many times growing up in Ecuador .

I am speaking out without fear — as I don't believe we are there yet.