WATCH: 5th Generation War and the dangers of illegal, AI-driven conflict
House Democrats took 40% of their campaign funding from Palantir in January — so I made a video to let them know what AI warfare is all about
“AI is turning warfare into an endless, automated corporate activity, where insiders are making millions of dollars from prediction markets while CEOs make billions off of our taxpayer money.”
[Watch or read below]
Are you confused and anxious about why the government seems to be starting a war every weekend?
Are you confused about your taxpayer dollars being used to murder dozens of schoolchildren in order to kill one 80-year-old foreign leader?
If you live in America, you need to understand how the Trump administration and big tech are lying to you about mass surveillance and AI warfare. [Watch above or read below.]
For years, I worked in AI defense companies in order to help explain emerging technologies to powerful people, including at the Pentagon. I even worked on the tools that likely allowed Anthropic’s Claude model to be used in operations in Iran and Venezuela. Now I continue doing the same, but for the people: explaining how AI technologies endanger our lives and our democracy.
What you see abroad are not conventional wars, and what you see at home are not civil wars. What you’re looking at is something quite different: military experts call it a 5th Generation War (5GW). This is the “latest, most secretive and difficult to understand form of war,” according to military expert and defense scholar, Armin Krishnan. It exploits AI surveillance and covert operations in order to weaponize data and physical violence against people — both abroad and at home.
These AI wars are wildly unconstitutional, and violate the Geneva Convention, primarily because they turn civilians into targets, and involve cruel and unusual methods of punishment, also known as “irregular” or “unrestricted” tactics. Here are some of the defining characteristics of 5GW, according to Krishnan:
“Violence in 5GW is very dispersed or hidden, which makes it difficult to perceive as war…5GW relies on covert or ambiguous means that hide nefarious activities or disguise them as benign or harmless.”
You can see this “dispersed” pattern everywhere. In the United States the government is targeting American neighborhoods under the pretense of law enforcement and peace. In Venezuela, the operation to capture Maduro was framed as a drug bust. Likewise in Gaza, Palantir is working with the Board of Peace, an entity created entirely out of states involving humanitarian crimes, in order to help distribute — and potentially deny — aid to Palestinians right after Israel enabled mass slaughter on them using their software. Similar patterns are being repeated in the ongoing crisis in Cuba.
“5GW bypasses the battlefield and targets society as a whole rather than its military forces [shifting] the emphasis from the control of physical terrain to control the human terrain and the human mind as a target of attack…the objective is to overthrow an existing political order or change the culture in society in accordance with the goals of the oppressor… ”
5GW doesn’t only rely on AI in order to carry out covert operations such as decapitation strikes [Iran] and kidnappings of world leaders [Venezuela] in order to take down their societies. This kind of war also relies on AI to track, monitor, and influence social media in order to shape your perception at home. That means making sure you’re either too scared, tired, or hopeless to speak out — or completely onboard with an operation that furthers violence around the world, and turns it into a spectacle on social media.
5GW war tactics were developed partly by studying terrorist groups like ISIS, which weaponized social media and perception in order to scare their enemies. Now you see the Department of Homeland Security using the same tactics of fear mongering on social media — and also using masked agents — in order to assault Americans.
Both at home and abroad, AI is turning warfare into an endless automated corporate activity, where insiders are making millions of dollars from prediction markets while CEOs make billions off of our taxpayer money. The highest paid CEO last year made nearly $7 billion — that’s the equivalent of $3.3 million an hour — helping the IDF, DoD, and DHS develop crueler and crueler methods of using people’s personal data in order to target them, and in order to influence the world without people noticing. His boss, Peter Thiel, believes waging constant wars and managing constant crises is the best way to keep elites in control.
Now following their vision, the DOD and the IDF have turned weekends — which are supposed to be holy and for the family — into a time of mass slaughter and warmongering abroad. All while you aren’t looking. As you can imagine, this is also a 5GW war tactic.
Congress needs to put an end to these illegal wars that are leading to mass war crimes and the violation of our civil rights — but will they? Recently it was found that the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee took nearly 40% of its funds in January from Palantir lobbyists.
In the 18th century, we rebelled against a 7% tax in order to overthrow an oppressive government. In the 60s, we rebelled with protests in music in the face of war crimes in Vietnam, and put an end to a war which had sacrificed millions of Vietnamese people and thousands of Americans.
Where is our rebellion? Well, as you can imagine, these fifth generation wars are achieving their goals. They’re keeping us nihilistic, hopeless, and accustomed to war that will continue to enrich only a few individuals in the world.
We need an anti-war movement more than ever. 5th generation warfare will perpetuate slaughter and evil around the world, and the violence will no doubt return home.
Note for residents of Colorado:
5th generation warfare relies on third party data and intelligence gathered from social media in order to conduct covert tactics. It’s coming to Colorado, especially now that ICE is using third party data in order to track and target American citizens and migrants. Please use this link to sign a letter in support of state-level protections.