"While you were busy wasting your time listening to podcasts and doomscrolling on your phone, one of America's leading AI overlords was educating himself by talking to Nazis. This was the startling admission made by Alex Karp, cofounder and CEO of the software company Palantir, a company that's come under increasingly heavy scrutiny for its growing role as a provider of AI-powered surveillance technology to the military and government."
"In an interview with podcaster Molly O'Shea published this week, Karp, who has Jewish heritage, was discussing German culture and his time in the country before going on a tangent about how outrageous it is that people online "laud the Nazis." Then he fessed up to something even more eyebrow-raising. "I spend a lot of time talking to Nazis," Karp said, implying that this is an ongoing pastime of his."
Alex Karp, cofounder and CEO of Palantir, said he spends a lot of time talking to real Nazis to understand what made them tick. Palantir has faced increasing scrutiny for its role as a provider of AI-powered surveillance technology to military and government. Karp, who has Jewish heritage and a PhD in philosophy from Goethe University Frankfurt, has an affinity for German culture and often offers philosophical reflections defending Western, particularly American, values. He observed that modern online supporters of Nazis would likely not be accepted by historical Nazis and joked they might have been shipped to camps. He published a book this year urging the United States to embrace technological leadership.
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