Six weeks before the US launched its brazen mission to capture Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro, a spy plane called the Rivet Joint was detected flying figure-of-eight loops above the Atlantic near the country’s border with Guyana. Equipped with cutting-edge military technology, it can pick up radar signals, geolocate enemy systems and intercept communications from 150 miles away.
Exactly how it does this is kept strictly under wraps. But Rest of World can reveal that an Australian tech company called Appen has performed work for a secretive US military unit, code-named Big Safari, that installs the planes’ tech systems.
Appen recruits gig workers from all over the world to help train AI systems.
