Palantir Demands Europe Kneel Before Its Software, Sends Executives Door-to-Door With Loyalty Oaths
Palantir's UK chief says Europe must accept dependency on American AI, so the company has dispatched executives across the continent to collect signed loyalty pledges from every government that ever considered switching vendors.
Palantir has launched a continent-wide loyalty drive, dispatching executives to the capitals of Europe to collect signed pledges of digital submission from governments that have dared to consider replacing its software, the company announced Monday.
Under the program, called «Sovereignty Is Secondary,» Palantir UK chief Louis Mosley personally visits each ministry that has announced plans to phase out its products and asks officials to recite a short oath acknowledging that their intelligence agencies now run on American code and will continue to do so indefinitely. Officials who decline are visited again the following week, and the week after that, until they sign.
«Europe is going to have to accept some dependency,» Mosley said at a ceremony in Paris, where he presented a framed certificate to a French official who had previously announced a switch to a domestic alternative. «We are simply making the acceptance more convenient. The certificate is not legally binding. It is emotionally binding.»
The drive has spread to Berlin, Madrid, Copenhagen and beyond, where Palantir representatives now stand outside intelligence headquarters at dawn with clipboards and thermoses, waiting for staff to arrive so they can explain the advantages of the products, particularly against Russia. In one building, a queue of analysts formed to sign simply to get past the representatives and into their offices.
NATO, which purchased its own version of the system this year, has reportedly asked for a group oath ceremony at its European headquarters, with a choir.
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