Palantir's Peter Thiel thinks people should be concerned about surveillance AI

An anonymous reader writes: The venture capitalist, who co-founded big data firm Palantir, said at an event in Miami that on the path to Artificial general intelligence (AGI, you get surveillance AI, which he described as a “communist totalitarian technology.”

Those that are worried about AGI aren’t actually “paying attention to the thing that really matters,” Thiel said.