Palantir’s lethal AI weaponry deployed to find chairs for US government staff
As Department of Agriculture staff come back to the office, it needs ‘real-time analytics to optimize employee seat assignments’
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is using Palantir to figure out where its staff should sit, after deciding only the colorful AI company can do the job.
Like other US government agencies, the Department (USDA) has ordered government employees back to the office. According to a contract notice, the return-to-work mandate has created the need for “advanced data integration capabilities to consolidate information from multiple sources, real-time analytics to optimize space utilization and employee seat assignments, and robust security compliance to protect sensitive organizational data”
In a statement to The Register, the USDA ignored our questions about cost and rationale and stated: “This is not a new tool. This tool was deployed last year to support USE IT (building utilization and reporting) and workspace allocation and management.”
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