Interview: US Military Expert Sharon Weinberger: "I think they're in for a reckoning"
Military expert Sharon Weinberger talks about the new power of tech billionaires over America's weapons, the dispute between the Pentagon and Anthropic – and Steve Jobs' secret deals with the CIA.
Sharon Weinberger, a military and intelligence expert who has observed America's military and intelligence apparatus for a quarter-century, most recently as the head of security reporting for the Wall Street Journal, discusses her upcoming book "Valley of Death: How Big Tech Is Fueling the Future of War" in an interview with the Handelsblatt.
Published on September 22nd, the book exposes how Silicon Valley has become a weapons manufacturer. In an interview conducted via video call from her home in Washington D.C. at the end of August, Weinberger reveals that her research included interviewing dozens of officials, military personnel, and other insiders. She also includes previously unseen photographs that portray tech giants in a different light, such as Apple co-founder Steve Jobs sitting next to a spy or Palantir CEO and Israel enthusiast Alex Karp wearing a Palestinian cloth.
Weinberger warns of a gradual shift in power to private corporations that are not subject to democratic control and advises the German government to take urgent action.
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