chrisjj2d ago

New York City hospitals drop Palantir as controversial AI firm expands in UK

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/26/new-york-hospitals-palantir-ai

New York City hospitals drop Palantir as controversial AI firm expands in UK

The decision follows activist pressure as Palantir faces growing scrutiny over NHS and UK government deals

The Guardian
Show threadtombert2d ago
It seems like letting a company like Palantir anywhere near private medical data is a pretty bad idea. I am happy NYC is doing this.
Show threadManuel_D2d ago

Palantir builds software that customers use to work with their own data. Custody of the data remains with the customer.

This is like saying a hospital that uses Excel is handing over data to Microsoft.

Show threadcatoc

You’re calling people who critique Palantir “borderline Q-Anon” ?

While you yourself think Palantir’s products are “like Excel” ?

They are not.
Source: https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/mar/26/ai-got-the-blam...

AI got the blame for the Iran school bombing. The truth is far more worrying

LLMs-gone-rogue dominated coverage, but had nothing to do with the targeting. Instead, it was choices made by human beings, over many years, that gave us this atrocity

The Guardian
Mar 26 at 11:01pmWeb
Show threadManuel_D2d ago

I'm calling people insinuating that Peter Thiel is going to use orbital weapons to assassinate people, as commenters in this thread are doing https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47536467 are indeed borderline Q anon.

Also, I don't see anything in your link that contradicts the fact that governments' data remains in the custody of the government, not Palantir.

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