Jancso, a former Palantir employee, wrote in a Slack with about 2000 Palantir alumni in it that he’s hiring for a “DOGE orthogonal project to design benchmarks and deploy AI agents across live workflows in federal agencies,” according to an April 21 post reviewed by WIRED. Agents are programs that can perform work autonomously.
We’ve identified over 300 roles with almost full-process standardization, freeing up at least 70k FTEs for higher-impact work over the next year,” he continued, essentially claiming that tens of thousands of federal employees could see many aspects of their job automated and replaced by these AI agents.
Workers for the project, he wrote, would be based on site in Washington, DC, and would not require a security clearance; it isn’t clear for whom they would work. Palantir did not respond to requests for comment.
They’ve gargled so much of their own cool-aid they now believe these AI agents actually work. I’m going to get more popcorn.
Palantir is probably the closest thing we have IRL to that fictional megacorp that the supervillain owns
The world would be magnitudes better if it and everything remotely connected to it got ended with extreme prejudice.
Yes, it’s basically a merger between skynet and OCP
You know what? Fine. AI can be convinced to do the wrong thing with a little creative talk, and they’ll figure that out the hard way.
