Il software “palantir” e le nuove frontiere della computazione algoritmica. Un approccio rivolto prettamente alla gestione dei big data.

Palantir is a software program capable of effectively interfacing with big data spread throughout the digital fabric of computer networks and, above all, reconstructing the logical meaning of the relationship between metadata and the connections between various pieces of information stored in memories distributed across different servers. It is capable of breaking down the barriers of so-called data silos, creating interconnections and determining the meaning of countless cognitive processes in the digital world. While generative artificial intelligence is moving towards the construction, albeit artificial, of simulations of human behavior, software such as Palantir is designed and built to extract connections from the mass of data it can draw on. The process seems obvious, but until now no software has been able to achieve this goal by overcoming the physical barriers created by the different geographical locations of storage devices and hardware memory. This raises obvious critical issues that scholars and regulators must consider in order to uphold democratic guarantees, especially given the interest of non-commercial actors in the computational potential of this innovative software.