You call yourself a liberal progressive. How does that square with building military AI?

Alex Karp
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Co-Founder & CEO at Palantir Technologies

Niche: AI
Revenue: Approx. USD 680 Million/month
Location: Denver, Colorado, USA
Started: 2003

Actual progressives want poor people and working-class people to have better lives. That is what I want. And I genuinely agree with Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren on many things. Poor people in this country do not get a fair shake. That is true. Where I disagree is with the conclusion that slowing down American AI development is the solution. If we overregulate this technology, the people who fill the gap are not going to run it according to progressive values. The choice is not between American AI and no AI. It is between America leading and China leading. And I have studied Chinese culture for decades. I am a serious Tai Chi practitioner. I have enormous respect for that culture. But those are two different sets of values in competition.

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