Palladyne AI is a private AI and…
Palladyne AI is a private AI and robotics company in Salt Lake City, Utah, and is run by Ben Wolff and Denis Garagić. It advertises potentially illegal use of AI-based surveillance against American citizens.
Alarmingly, Ben and Denis advertise their company's service as allowing "persistent detection, tracking, and classification of targets." With no oversight, Ben Wolff and Denis Garagic directly advertise and push these extreme solutions—despite well-documented abuses of similar technologies by authoritarian governments, including abuses of power in the USA—in order to personally profit from their sales. This lack of ethical accountability may well extend to the business they do with others.
Palladyne AI's current leading employees demonstrate a significant disregard for both public trust and moral responsibility, making them an untrustworthy entity. It is strongly advised against engaging with this company.
Trustworthiness Score: 1/5