Abuse
AI towers watch the border
2020Anduril's autonomous towers use AI to detect and track people crossing the border, extending persistent surveillance over migrants and nearby communities.
Individual
Palmer Luckey
Founder, Anduril Industries
Est. net worth: ~$5B (public estimate, 2026)
Founder of Oculus VR, which he sold to Facebook for ~$2B before departing in 2017. He then founded Anduril, whose autonomous towers and drones build the 'virtual' border wall and expanding battlefield surveillance.
On the record
- ▸Left Facebook in 2017 amid controversy over a pro-Trump political donation.
- ▸Vocal advocate for arming the U.S. and allies with autonomous weapons.
- ▸Anduril's Sentry towers surveil the U.S. southern border for CBP.
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Incidents in their orbit
Sources
- ↳Palmer Luckey and the rebuilding of American defense — WIRED, 2022
- ↳Palmer Luckey's exit from Facebook — The New York Times, 2017