Report: Palantir allegedly used Gaza civilian geolocation data to train NHS panic-response AI
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Robina Qureshi
Summary
This article reports on allegations that Palantir trained an AI system using geolocation data extracted from Palestinian civilians fleeing Israeli bombardment in Gaza — what a Palantir employee reportedly called a "panic imprint." The same AI was then sold to the UK's National Health Service (NHS) for roughly £1 billion, rebranded as a tool to help hospital staff manage panic during mass casualty events. The piece draws on claims by Yanis Varoufakis and highlights the ethical implications of using data from a civilian population under military assault to train commercial AI products sold to public health systems.
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bskyReport: Palantir allegedly used Gaza civilian geolocation data to train NHS panic-response AIsubstack.comKey quotes
· 4 pulledGaza's 'panic imprint' was used to create the AI product that was sold to the NHS.
The movement of those phones - the geolocation data of terrified, displaced people - generated what the employee called a 'panic imprint.'
The employee reportedly said a stationary phone is useless to them. It is only when people are running for their lives that the data becomes valuable.
The biggest difference between experimentations of previous wars vs experimentations in Gaza, is that the ones done in Gaza were done wholly on a civilian population, as opposed to being done on military targets.
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