“The artificial intelligence will free us from the limitations of the human brain.” With statements as extravagant as this, Javier Miley has opened the doors of Argentina to technology magnates, promising to turn their country into a large-scale laboratory that allows for unlimited “experimentation” with the IA.
In an opinion published in the Financial Timesthe Argentine president has presented his plan to eliminate regulation that weighs on algorithmic systems, reduce the taxes to technology corporations and allow the creation of “non-human” companies managed by AI agents or robots“.
The article, co-written by the minister of deregulation Federico Sturzeneggeramplifies the techno-solutionist narrative of Silicon Valleymecca of the digital industry. Thus, Milei promises that the accelerated use of technology will bring greater prosperity and sells AI as a miracle that will “drive productivity beyond our most ambitious dreams.” “We are open to doing business,” they say.
Artificial intelligence will free us from the limitations of the human brain
Alliance with the owner of Palantir
The anarcho-capitalist’s maneuver coincides with the move to Argentina of Peter Thiel. The influential investor, co-founder of Palantir y PayPalhas bought a 12 million dollar mansion in an exclusive neighborhood of Buenos Aires. Thiel met last April with Milei, whom he met in 2024 and with whom he shares being an ally of the president of USA, Donald Trump.
Thiel’s establishment in the Argentine capital raises all kinds of suspicions. His circle has explained to the American media that the transfer responds to his concern about the decision of California to vote on a law that could raise taxes on billionaires like him. However, there could be other hidden intentions.
antidemocratic movement
Thiel embraces the movement neoreactionary o dark illustrationa current theorized by the thinker Curtis Yarvin that advocates squandering liberal democracy to establish a technocracy governed by executives. To escape from the current order, which he denies saying it is “incompatible with freedom”, the controversial businessman is financing the creation of artificial territories (Network Statein English) in which to experiment without limits with technologies such as AI, cryptocurrencies or the biohackingthe technological modification of the human body.
Thiel is behind city-state projects like the one the company Praxis dreams of building in Greenland or how Prosperousin Honduras. This controversial initiative has been denounced for militarization, land expropriation, violation of national sovereignty and violation of labor rights. The president of the Honduran government who supported her, Juan Orlando Hernandezwas sentenced in the US to 45 years in prison for drug trafficking during the Biden administration. Trump pardoned him in December of last year.
Thiel was born in Germany and grew up in the US. In 2011, he obtained New Zealand citizenship and applied for a passport in Malta in 2022. Now, he could do the same in Argentina, according to The New York Times. As with your investments, diversify your portfolio of countries to escape to to maximize the chances of achieving your goals.
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