The Baffler
Indeed, since the early 2000s, but accelerating over the last decade, corporate conglomerates and tech startups have flocked to active conflict zones, which are the ideal innovation labs. There, dragnet surveillance, mass incarceration, and unfettered drone warfare serve as the AI hype cycle’s underbelly. Death and destruction double as opportunities for data collection and refinement, allowing the private technology sector to stake out a monopoly over AI development in military and commercial sectors. The end result is our present of endless war