Baykar Chairman of the Board and Chief Technology Officer Selcuk Bayraktar on Palantir's manifesto:
Recently, a text resembling a manifesto was published. When we looked at that text, we encountered a dark mindset that views war, peace, and human life merely as optimization problems — as algorithmic outputs — removing conscience, morality, and the human soul from the equation.
For them, the world may consist of nothing more than a simulation processed on their servers, a computer algorithm. But we know that humanity, which they seek to imprison within that spider web, is far more than a source of data.
Against these arrogant and dark manifestos, we must put forward our own roadmap centered on justice, compassion, morality, and human dignity.