As part of a joint series with Corporate Watch UK, our latest publication is on defence tech startup Shield AI.
Shield AI’s catalogue of products includes autonomous drones and AI pilots for combat, enabling automated surveillance, mapping, and monitoring.
Its products have been used in an ever expanding series of context from war zones, naval operations, policing operations, as well as border and coastal surveillance.
Privacy International
in reply to Privacy International • • •This is a familiar pattern: a company building tools of war embedding itself civilian infrastructure.
While gaining profitable defence contracts, venture capital investments in the rapidly growing Shield AI point to the role of private finance, often based in Silicon Valley, in shaping the future of modern warfare.
Read more in the full company profile: privacyinternational.org/repor…
Dual-use tech: the Shield AI example
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in reply to Privacy International • • •Very, very interesting article … and, truthfully, *extremely* worrying!
The technologies that are being developed, both for military & “civilian” usage, by the likes of #ShieldAI, #Palantir, #Anduril and many others, will inevitably soon be used in acts of repression against peaceful protesters and others as imperialism “comes home”!
#AI #Militarization #Repression #Empire #US #Israel #PerpetualWar #Tseng #Thiel #AWS