After Thiel's manifesto, it's clear: AI can't be left to Big Tech

Charles de Gaulle’s famous adage about politics, that “Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians,” has been customized to many fields that we need to protect from professionals. Some found national security should not be left to the generals; some even thought that international relations should not be left to the diplomats. Seriously speaking, until last week, Palantir, the Big Tech company that had bought an ad in the Sunday New York Times three years ago to show its support for Israel, published a 22-item manifesto on social media platforms. I had not given much thought to whose hands the artificial intelligence (AI) should be in.