Whether this investment in AI is successful depends largely on achieving government contracts or some other form of monopoly. This is something that Palantir Technologies has been very good at in the past. It was established by Peter Thiel in May 2003. Thiel holds extreme right-wing views and is a supporter of Donald Trump. He explained his political philosophy in an article entitled, The Education of a Libertarian: "I remain committed to the faith of my teenage years: to authentic human freedom as a precondition for the highest good. I stand against confiscatory taxes, totalitarian collectives, and the ideology of the inevitability of the death of every individual. For all these reasons, I still call myself ‘libertarian.' But I must confess that over the last two decades, I have changed radically on the question of how to achieve these goals. Most importantly, I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible."
