One of the founders of the starting of Y Combinator accelerators offered unparalleled criticism this weekend of the controversial Parantir Data Company, leading a executive company to provide extensive protection of Parantir’s work.
It came back and after federal registrations showed that immigration and implementation of customs in the US (ICE)-tasked with performing the aggressive deportation strategy of the Trump administration-but pays Parantir $ 30m to create what it is calling “immigration life”, or immigration, to help the ice and decide who intends to desert ” close to real time “in the self-deportation system.
Founder Y Combinator Paul Graham shared titles regarding the Parantir Contract into X, writing, “a very exciting time in technology now. If you are a first -degree programmer, there are a large number of other places where you can go to work than in the enterprise that builds the police infrastructure.”
In response, Ted Mabrey’s Global leader of Parantir wrote that he is “waiting for the next group of employment they decided to apply in Parantir after reading your post”.
Mabrey did not discuss the specifics of the current work of Parantir with ICE, but he said the company began working with the Department of Internal Security (under which ICE operates) “in the immediate response to the killing of Agent Jaime Zapata from Zetas in an attempt called Operation Hero.”
“When people are alive because of what you have built, and others have died because what you built was not yet so good, you develop a very different perspective on understanding your work,” Mabrey said.
He also compared Graham’s criticism with protests on the Google Maven project in 2018, which eventually led the company to stop its work by analyzing drone images for the military. (Google has then signaled that it has become more open to protection work again.)
Mabrey asked anyone who is interested in working for Parantir to read the new book of CEO Alexander Karp “Technological Republic”, which argues that the software industry must rebuild its relations with the government. (The company has recruited to the college campuses with signs stating that “a moment of calculation has arrived to the west.”)
“We hire believers,” Mabrey continued. “Not in the sense of homogeneity of faith, but in the internal ability to believe in something greater than ourselves. Belief is required because 1) Our work is very, very difficult and 2) you have to expect that weather attacks like this all the time; from all sides of the political line.”
Graham then Mabrey press “publicly engaged in the name of Parantir not to build things that help the government violate the US Constitution”, though he admitted in another post that such commitment would not have “any legal force”.
“But I am hoping that if they (do the commitment), and some Parantir employees are required one day to do something illegal, he means” I did not register for this “and I refused,” Graham wrote.
Mabrey, for his part, compared Graham’s question with “” Will you promise to stop beating your wife “Court Court House,” but he added that the company has “made so many ways from Sunday”, starting with a commitment to “3500 extremely thoughtful people, who are just making the world. doing actually. ”
