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Palantir CEO’s new book says Silicon Valley has ‘lost its way’
Palantir co-founder and CEO Alexander Karp opens his new book with a provocative declaration: “Silicon Valley has lost its way.” Over the past decade or
They argue that this alliance has splintered, with the government “ceding the challenge of developing the next wave of pathbreaking technologies to the private sector,” while Silicon Valley has “turned inward, focusing its energy on narrow consumer products, rather than projects that speak to and address our greater security and welfare.” “The central argument that we advance in the pages that follow is that the software industry should rebuild its relationship with government and redirect its effort and attention to constructing the technology and artificial intelligence capabilities that will address the most pressing challenges that we collectively face,” Karp and Zamiska write. Indeed, one thing that Karp and Zamiska criticize is “the reluctance of many business leaders to venture into, in any meaningful way and aside from the occasional and theatrical foray, the most consequential social and cultural debates of our time.”
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