How does AI actually perform on the battlefield based on your direct experience?
Co-Founder & CEO at Palantir Technologies
When I arrived in Ukraine on day five of the conflict, there was not a single person there who did not believe they were going to lose. You always have to measure performance against expectations. I can tell you with as much certainty as I am able to that if you obtained a classified assessment from Russia or China today, one of their primary concerns would be the systemic outperformance of Ukraine, Israel, and America on the battlefield in contexts where Palantir-style technologies have been deployed. The concatenation of classified data sets and precision ontology, structured so that no single component can see another, produces outcomes that were not achievable before. That is the reality of this technology in conflict zones.
This answer is part of a full interview with Alex Karp, Co-Founder & CEO at Palantir Technologies.
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