Tuesday, September 09, 2025

Karp's Contrarian View On AI

"Palantir CEO Alex Karp says U.S. labor workers won't lose their jobs to AI"

The primary danger of AI in this country, says Karp, is that workers don't understand that AI will actually help them in their roles—and it will hardly replace them. "Silicon Valley's done an immensely crappy job of explaining that," he said. "If you're in manufacturing, in any capacity: You're on the assembly line, you maintain a complicated machine -- you have any kind of skilled labor job -- the way we do AI will actually make your job more valuable and make you more valuable. But currently you would think—just roaming around the country, and if you listen to the AI narratives coming out of Silicon Valley—that all these people are going to lose their jobs tomorrow."

Direct link to Palantir "AI Optimism Project".