Alexander C. Karp, the CEO of Peter Thiel’s tech firm Palantir, has published a manifesto mainly restating points he developed in the New York Times bestseller he wrote with Nicholas W. Zamiska, The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West.
Overwhelmed with questions, the X account of Palantir, on April 18, summarizes the manifesto, which has 22 points, which include a call for building “AI Weapons” (meaning automatic killing systems such as those currently deployed against Russia, Palestine, and Iran) and a return to a mandatory national military service for all, as discussed in the U.S. and Europe. Karp, as is known from earlier statements, opposes all forms of empathy.
Karp is known as a spartan personality for whom cold logic should rule over human sentiment. Even worse, a blinded Karp believes that “One age of deterrence, the atomic age, is ending, and a new era of deterrence built on A.I. is set to begin.” In short, if the U.S.A. gets Palantir’s AI, then it will be able to defeat any rival, nuclear or not.
The full text can be read in Palantir’s post on X.
