AI-Powered Surveillance State, MAGA Style? And with a ‘Cancer Vaccine’?

At a White House press conference yesterday, flanked by Larry Ellison, Sam Altman, and Masayoshi Son, President Trump announced “the Stargate Project,” an ambitious American joint venture focused on artificial intelligence infrastructure, established by SoftBank, OpenAI, Oracle Corporation, and MGX.

Several have objected to Ellison’s remarks about “a cancer vaccine” using mRNA technology, the same kind of technology that went into the deadly COVID vaccines. Here are his remarks as captured in a posting on X by Dr. Shannon Kroner:

To see what else Mr. Ellison thinks about the proper use of AI, here is another dissenting posting on X, featuring an embedded video of Ellison rhapsodizing on the glories of the surveillance state that the technology will make possible:

According to his Wikipedia article, the billionaire tech mogul has disturbing ties to the Israeli apartheid state:

According to reports in 2019, Larry Ellison has funded illegal annexation projects in Jerusalem that received criticism from Palestinians as well as Israeli peace activists and archaeologists. Additionally, in 2019 a $1 billion lawsuit was filed against several Israel supporters, including Ellison. The lawsuit accused Ellison and others of conspiring to ethnically cleanse Palestinians from Israeli-occupied territories, committing war crimes, and funding genocide.

Ellison, who has close ties with Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, reportedly lobbied Israeli mogul Arnon Milchan to drop his lawyer so that Netanyahu, implicated in one of his corruption cases, could hire him. It was also revealed in 2021 that Ellison offered Netanyahu a post at Oracle.

I do not give unqualified trust to an online encyclopedia I can edit myself, and neither should you. But it is certain that he has given moneylots of it — to the IDF to help them advance their brutal campaigns (in two donations adding up to $26 million if you are not inclined to click the links). Moreover, Ellison has close ties to Israeli war criminal, Benjamin Netanyahu, hosting the corrupt head of state at the Hawaiian island Ellison owns.

In the White House presser (see below), Mr. Trump highlighted the jobs and economic prosperity the Stargate Project promises to bring to the United States. That sounds really good. But concerned Americans need to ask themselves if an AI surveillance state and Fauci-style experimental gene therapies marketed as vaccines is what they voted for.


Larry Ellison in 2013 (cropped from original). Image credit: Oracle PR from Redwood Shores, Calif., USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.