#rp26 speaker Aya Jaff: How the war economy comes home through the tech stack

The war economy is already home. It arrived through procurement contracts, AI safety frameworks, manifestos, and a rewrite of OpenAI's usage policy. How are coercive technologies, originally built for foreign wars and border regimes now being deployed inside European cities? How does this dual use function less as a regulatory category than as an alibi? At #rp26 Aya Jaff will follow the money, the language, and one specific case, Germany's Lex Palantir, to show how the militarization of the tech stack is being made invisible in real time. 

Aya Jaff was once deeply embedded in the worlds of tech and finance – as a coder, entrepreneur, and insider. Today, she questions the very structures she once helped build, speaking out on power, progress, and the moral dilemmas of capitalism. Her ARD show "How to get rich, Aya?" and the conference she founded, Data Unplugged, deliver bold, critical perspectives. Once dubbed “Mrs. Code” by DIE ZEIT and featured on the Forbes 30 under 30 list, Aya now shares the stories of a tech bro dropout in search of fairer alternatives. In her upcoming book Broligarchy, she takes on the tech elite with unflinching critique. On her podcast Impact Everything, she talks to experts at the intersection of capitalism, innovation, and justice.