Palantir CEO Alex Karp addresses fears over AI: 'We have to dominate'

Alex, a lot of people are scared of AI. They think AI is going to take over the world, that it's going to tell robots to kill everyone. What are they missing in terms of the benefits of AI? The problem is it's either we own AI or our adversaries. China and Russia own AI and our adversaries have a as long tradition of being not interested in the rule of law, not interested in fairness, not interested in in human rights and on the battlefield. It really is going to be us or them. We have to dominate and then set a rule of law to constrain development. At first you have to actually dominate, which is what we did in that post World War Two period with nuclear warheads. What we're in danger of if we don't lead into these technologies is our adversaries surpass us at things we're already better AT. And then they define the world order, and that world order is not going to be pleasant. Whether you're conservative or in my case kind of old school progressive, you do not want a world order where our adversaries to define the norms and be very bad for the world, to be especially bad for America. And this is something again, 75% of the top tech companies in the world are American, 86% of the market cap is American. We are just dominant here. It's a revolution. It is a revolution because you can do just look at purely commercial, you can do things faster, quicker with better margins. You can produce manufacturing in America like you can in Japan. You can make American engineers behave as if they were engineers from that. We've been trained over 20 years as as opposed to vocationally trained. You can change supply chains, you can rebuild them. You can do informat. You can do research in all sorts of areas faster, quicker and cheaper. And moving from a hardware based way of doing things to a software base to where things is literally moving from a place where we're competitive with people, our adversaries and allies, to a place where there's only one actor and that's America. Why are we so far ahead? Because we have meritocracy. Because we have the best people. Because we have an economic system where if you build something you can keep the proceeds. Because we're a believer. Culture, we believe. The West is superior because we believe the underlying values of what we do in America are superior to to our adversaries values and that shows up in our products. Why do we have so much capital here? Because all the great companies are here. Why do we have the best people working out? Because all the great companies are here. Why do we have a better understanding of how to build software? Because we've been doing it for 20 years. It we're also much more adaptive in this culture. We're not thinking about how you built software 20 years ago and still rolling out the same lane tire things you did 20 years ago. Things are fresh and dynamic and new and and people here embrace change and this is unique to this culture. Look it's it's always hard to all major battlefields in the world now that are powered by western user software. They use it for organizing the battlefield for figuring out who to to to select a fancy work for who to target. They use it for anti terror. They use it for organization. Israel and Ukraine are are heavy users of our product. the US government is a heavy user of our product. When you open the paper, you see our product. We are definitely the leading software company in the world for anything involving military intelligence. Do you think you can prevent a war with China? The way to prevent a war with China is to ramp up not just Palantir, but defense tech startups that produce software defined weapon systems that scare the living F out of our adversaries.