The takeover continues: FAA exploring 'partnership' deal with Palantir to integrate AI into air-traffic control systems

AI directing planes in flight paths? What could possibly go wrong?

I reported earlier this week that Palantir Technologies, the secretive data firm co-founded by the billionaire transhumanist Bilderberg insider Peter Thiel and his sidekick Alex Karp, had inked a $300 million contract to take over all federal government roles related to data collected on American farmers by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

This contract gets added to the billions worth of other contracts across 26 other federal government departments, including in military, Homeland Security, law enforcement and intelligence operations.

In short, the entity in Washington that people refer to as the federal government is increasingly being merged into this one very powerful private technology company, Palantir.

And now we have another federal role on the brink of falling into the hands of Palantir: air travel safety.

It’s well known that the United States of America has an aging, subpar air-traffic control system that is in urgent need of substantial upgrades.

More than a third of the co…