Palantir’s Karp takes a sharp left turn, says he and the company’s products are actually ‘progressive’
I know more about being a progressive than almost anybody on the planet, and I absolutely believe Palantir – all of our products are essentially progressive," Karp reportedly said.
Key points
- Our product, actually, in its core, requires people to conform with Fourth Amendment data protection." In the Politico interview, Karp said he was "really happy to hear" President Trump, a driving force behind ICE's expansion, acknowledge after the midterm elections that ICE deportations have been too tough.
- But it does not take cutting-edge AI and data analytics – in which Palantir claims to have unique power – for Karp to understand on which side his bread is buttered.
- The man with the distinctive verbal diarrhea is now stressing his progressive credentials – and those of Palantir's products.
He has talked about the need for democratic societies to exercise hard power, and, elsewhere, about founding a company that could "power the West to its obvious innate superiority." At the same time, he has presented Palantir as a force for peace.
Additional details
- In fact, across Europe, governments are looking to reject Palantir, while the EU has instigated a sovereign tech and AI policy to escape the clutches of the US tech giants.
- Karp denied that Palantir's association with ICE should reflect badly on the company.
- And I'll tell you what, I'm also not the village idiot." All of which raises the question of whether, in avoiding idiocy, it is necessary to eschew any principled stance whatsoever.
- "And I'm glad he's saying in public now what I've been saying in private," Karp told the news outlet.
- He told CNBC: " If you are critical of ICE, you should be out there protesting for more Palantir.
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