Palantir CEO Alex Karp on the Zero-Sum AI Race

We were the freak show, and we spent twenty years for this moment. We're doing it. We're doing it, and I'm sure you're enjoying this as much as I am. I just got three things to say. God bless our troops. God bless America. And gentlemen, start your attack. We are the power that actually has the decisive vote, and that is with military superiority. If Silicon Valley believes we are going to take away everyone's white collar job here. The most important thing Palantir is doing is to make sure that American war fighters are much more likely to come home. If we are going to outperform the rest of

There is a version of Silicon Valley that believes it operates outside of geopolitics, that the products it builds are neutral, that the rules of great power competition don't apply to software companies. Alex Karp has spent twenty years arguing the opposite. As cofounder and CEO of Palantir, he has built technology deployed on battlefields across The Middle East and analytics infrastructure embedded in the Department of War. What has changed in the past year is harder to dismiss. American operations have demonstrated a level of precision and dominance that adversaries did not anticipate. Karp

Doctor Karp, it is a pleasure to finally have the OG American Dynamism founder on stage with us at the fourth annual summit. I think, gosh, if Do we had this

you guys don't get that those are gang signs.

No, I think we all got the reference.

Mehdi's in the audience. He doesn't do that much. He's like, what is that?

This is going be a great conversation. So I think if we'd had this conversation seventy two hours ago, it would have been very different. But of course, there's been a lot of news, and so I want to get straight to the news and what's happening in the world because Palantir is certainly part of that story. So over the weekend, The U. S. And Israel bombed Iran in Operation Epic Fury. Ayatollah Khamenei is dead. The Middle East is now at war. What do you think the situation means for the future of the West, something you talk a lot about, and the future of America?

Well, first of all, I'm delighted to be on stage with you, and for many of you in this audience. By the way, I've been talking so much, I'm kind of losing my voice. I would have probably canceled on anyone but you, but that means we're glad Yeah, you're love to cancel, by the way, for those of you, because it's my favorite thing, because I'm an introvert. Any excuse to cancel, as Palantirians know it. But yeah, you've been such a force in public and behind the scenes for, I think, helping people in the, broadly speaking, defense tech or Let America Wins or things that are good, broadly defined

to get into that,