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Palantir CEO warns of America’s AI ‘danger zone’ as he plans to bring ‘superpowers’ to blue-collar workers


CEO Alex Karp said Palantir is “an America story,” and he doesn’t care whether his workers went to Harvard or Princeton or Yale: “Once you come to Palantir, you’re a Palantirian.”

Palantir Technologies just achieved a milestone that would have seemed outlandish even to its boldest promoters a year ago: a first-ever billion-dollar quarter, propelled by a runaway boom in artificial intelligence that is now fundamentally transforming how the company operates—and how many employees it believes it needs. Palantir’s executives made it clear there is one main source for these new levels of productivity: artificial intelligence, blended into every layer of its business and rapidly automating tasks that once required armies of highly paid coders and IT staff. We have now 4,100.” Karp also laid out the company’s goals on the earnings call with analysts, explaining that it won’t conduct mass layoffs, but will freeze hiring and rely on AI to multiply every employee’s productivity.

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