Palantir has published a nine-point manifesto on the importance of “AI sovereignty”

Palantir, a developer of software for military and civilian applications, published nine points on “AI sovereignty” on the social media platform X on July 1. Business Insider called this the company’s manifesto. Palantir urged businesses to keep their data within their own organizations rather than outsourcing it to institutions that Palantir deems unreliable.

— At Palantir, they believe that AI sovereignty determines an organization’s future, since it is independence that ensures freedom of choice. “Relinquishing sovereignty hands control over the company’s future decisions over to others—those who are most likely to exploit it for their own benefit and to your detriment,” the statement said.

— “Your data is your treasure. Share it at your own risk,” the company wrote. The ability to succeed depends on recognizing and leveraging your unique advantages, while long-term success is achieved by accumulating data to derive new analytical insights, the manifesto notes. Sharing such information provides access to the organization’s existing winning strategies and frees up resources to create new ones.

— “Tokenmaxing” (a practice in which the use of AI tokens becomes a measure of performance) undermines a business’s core values and reduces an organization’s resilience and intellectual potential, according to Palantir. “The drive to actively use tokens encourages the creation of one-off scripts instead of reliable software, bringing with it an addictive sense of false progress,” the company wrote.

— According to Palantir, control over one’s “weights” (the key parameters of AI models that determine how they operate) means control over one’s own destiny. This is a clear expression of the organization’s hard-won and accumulated knowledge: by allowing third-party AI developers to control these “weights,” businesses are effectively giving them the opportunity to copy and take for themselves what makes their product unique and successful (“alpha”), thereby depriving themselves of their main competitive advantage in the market.

— “There is no contradiction between sovereignty and ‘alpha.’ The architecture that preserves sovereignty to the greatest extent is one that allows organizations to retain their proprietary knowledge and grow it as ‘alpha,’” Palantir stated.

— “The politicization of technical issues related to sovereignty is exactly what your adversary wants,” the statement said. Palantir believes that the politicization of technology serves as a source of false sovereignty and leads to decisions that, at first glance, reduce dependence but ultimately limit freedom of action.

“True expertise is of existential importance,” the company added. “If we allow politics or favoritism to dictate technical decisions, it will benefit those who understand the technical details, rather than those who are right,” the AI developer stated. He urges us to listen to those who are closest to the problems, rather than those who argue about them most persuasively.

— “Learn from organizations that succeed or consistently deliver strong results. Organizations facing existential threats cannot afford the luxury of making technical decisions based on political preferences,” writes Palantir.

— The company urged people to trust only those organizations, countries, and individuals that have a track record of making the right decisions. According to Palantir, a track record of past successes is the best and only indicator of future success, and evaluating actions based on personal preferences is a profound mistake.

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