The tech gods are battling it out in the rarefied altitudes of the fabricated brain-game giving Zeus a run for his money in the hubris stakes.
The bitter rivalry between Elon Musk and Sam Altman over OpenAI heads to trial in California. The case will feature some of the biggest names in Silicon Valley, and its outcome could affect the course of the AI boom. Musk alleges that Altman, OpenAI’s CEO, broke the company’s founding agreement by restructuring the company and converting much of it to a for-profit enterprise. Altman and OpenAI counter that Musk is essentially a sore loser.
The case also carries sizable stakes for OpenAI, which is expected to go public later this year at about a $1tn valuation.
Altman, 22 April 1985 5am Chicago, Illinois, is an ultra-determined Sun Taurus (trine Neptune) opposition Pluto; with an even more rigorous, hard-ass Mars Moon in Taurus opposition Saturn in Scorpio. Birth time being accurate, he has his Solar Arc Midheaven squaring his Mars opposition Saturn now and in 2027 which hints at a considerable setback.
Musk, 28 June 1971 7.30 am Pretoria, South Africa, however does not look like racing off to wave the victor’s wreath, Tr Uranus will rattle his Neptune opposition Saturn from now into 2027 for jolts, jangles and panics; in 2027 as well tr Neptune moves to an undermining square to his Cancer Sun; with a grind-to-a-halt and spit-teeth frustration in late 2027/28 as his Solar Arc Pluto squares his Mars.
Elsewhere Alex Karp, CEO of Palantir has issued a manifesto championing US military dominance and of AI weapons, implying some cultures are inferior to others, described as ‘ramblings of a supervillain.’ The post exhorted the US to reinstate a military draft, saying that “free and democratic societies” need “hard power” in order to prevail. It also predicted a future dominated by autonomous weapons.
This is the latest pronouncement from Karp, which appear to indicate he views himself as not simply the head of a software company, but a pundit with important insights into the future of civilisation. In an interview with CNBC in early March, he suggested that AI would “disrupt” the power of “highly educated, often female voters who vote mostly Democrat”, and instead empower “vocationally trained, working-class, often male, working-class voters”.
It led to criticism from several MPs, who said that it raised yet more questions about the UK’s contracts with the company, including a £330m contract with the NHS, and deals with the police and Ministry of Defence.
“Palantir’s manifesto, which embraces AI state surveillance of citizens along with national service in the USA, is either a parody of a RoboCop film, or a disturbing narcissistic rant from an arrogant organisation,” said Martin Wrigley, a Liberal Democrat MP who is a member of the commons science and technology select committee.
Karp, 2 October 1967 New York, has a Libra Sun opposition Saturn in Aries with the innovative Uranus Pluto (Moon) conjunction in Virgo square Mars – again super-determined and ruthless. Plus a flamboyant Jupiter in Leo in a high-finance, over-optimistic square to Neptune. The ground will turn swampy under his feet from 2028 onwards with tr Neptune conjunct his Saturn and opposition his Sun with a devastating/confused 2029 as his SA Pluto is conjunct his Neptune.
Along the same timeline, Palantir, 6 May 2003, looks jammed up in 2028 with tr Pluto square its Mars, moving through an opposition to its Jupiter and then a conjunction with its Neptune in 2031/32 – that looks like an over confident push which may not end well.
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