Tech Companies Turned Ukraine Into an AI War Lab

Palantir Technologies has embedded its data-analytics and AI software deeply into Ukraine's wartime government, according to a TIME report on how tech companies have used the war as a testing ground for military AI. CEO Alex Karp met Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Kyiv on June 2, 2022, and offered the company's help, and Palantir has since provided its tools to Ukraine free of charge. Karp said the software is "responsible for most of the targeting in Ukraine," while Ukrainian Minister of Digital Transformation Mykhailo Fedorov described Ukraine as a place to test new technologies in real conditions. Georgetown researcher Rita Konaev warned that these tools risk reaching adversaries.