MAGA Tech Summit: AI’s Ideology Crisis in Breakout Room C

At NatCon 5, the annual MAGA right fest held sometime recently, Breakout Room C turned into a gladiator arena over the soul of AI. Geoffrey Miller, apparently feeling brave or just poorly caffeinated, grabbed the mic to antagonize Palantir's CTO, Shyam Sankar, the human in charge of the company’s AI wizardry. Miller boldly claimed the AI industry shares ‘virtually no ideological overlap with national conservatism,’ as if Palantir’s AI wasn’t busy crunching data for government projects anyway. This awkward exchange unfolded beneath the panel titled ‘The Need for Heroism,’ which might explain why Miller felt the need to play hero by dissing tech geeks at a culture war soap opera.

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Source: Theverge | Published: 9/6/2025 | Author: Tina Nguyen