Palantir CEO Makes Shocking Confession on Disrupting Democratic Power

[Nevilledog]

https://newrepublic.com/post/207693/palantir-ceo-karp-disrupting-democratic-power

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Palantir CEO Alex Karp thinks his AI technology will lessen the power of “highly educated, often female voters, who vote mostly Democrat” while increasing the power of working-class men.

“This technology disrupts humanities-trained—largely Democratic—voters, and makes their economic power less. And increases the economic power of vocationally trained, working-class, often male, working-class voters,” Karp said in a CNBC interview Thursday. “And so these disruptions are gonna disrupt every aspect of our society. And to make this work, we have to come to an agreement of what it is we’re going to do with the technology; how are we gonna explain to people who are likely gonna have less good, and less interesting jobs.”

This sounds like a direct, long-term pitch to the GOP from a CEO whose tech firm already has numerous government contracts and is deeply embedded in the Pentagon. Karp’s message is loud and clear: My technology will take political capital away from one of your greatest enemies—liberal women with degrees—and give one of your favorite demographics to patronize—working-class men—more political power to transfer to you. He’s aligning his technology with both GOP political strategy and the larger male-centered culture war that the right has been waging for the better part of a decade now. And how exactly would his technology only hurt Democrat women?

Karp also made a Patriot Act–era argument, justifying his admittedly “dangerous” technology by claiming that Palantir will allow us to “be American” in the future.

“These technologies are dangerous societally,” Karp continued. “The only justification you could possibly have would be that if we don’t do it, our adversaries will do it. And we will be subject to their rule of law.… Why is it that we’re absorbing the risk of disrupting the very fabric of our society, including the most powerful parts of our society, if it’s not because it’s about maintaining our ability to be American in the near term and long term?”

*snip*

Fuck this dude.

[dweller]

1. Not this shit again

The only justification you could possibly have would be that if we don’t do it, our adversaries will do it. And we will be subject to their rule of law.… Why is it that we’re absorbing the risk of disrupting the very fabric of our society



P25 playbook

✌🏻

[flamingdem]

2. Karp likes to call himself progressive

He's pure maga with this statement.

[popsdenver]

24. Didn't he recently move

the Corporation from California/Colorado to TEXAS???????????

It's not just Republicans in Congress, Supereme Court, and Republican Mass Media.........
It 's the CORPORATIONS that put them all in power..........

I am waiting for them to re-name The United States of America....to: The United Fascist Corporations of America

Orwell was a true Visionary, and he warned us...........

[EYESORE 9001]

3. He deserves blunt testicular trauma

but I’d settle for making him feel what he will describe as torture, when it’s actually no worse than paying a proportionate amount of tax to the benefits you already enjoy in a civilized society. I don’t think this fucker would prefer lack of civilization, what with so many people with nothing to lose setting out on a quest for that tasty billionaire meat.

[aggiesal]

6. I stealing this ''blunt testicular trauma''. I'm not even asking for permission ...

[MustLoveBeagles]

4. That dude is a maniac

[BaronChocula]

5. This is a clear admission

that white working-class men (white, in particular) are in the tank for the super-rich.

[SamKnause]

7. Fuck you.

[OMGWTF]

8. The Patriarchy must DIE!! Be glad women only want equality and not payback.

[lastlib]

9. And the dinosaur he rode in on.

I hope it was a stegasaurus.

[poli-junkie]

10. He sounds like he wants to be the

leader of the incels. Just how would he go about suppressing women?

[BattleRow]

16. And they think Iran is an opressive regime?

Whoa!
Seems like Palantir is stealing the playbook.

[Fiendish Thingy]

11. Wishful thinking from a scared little oligarch-wannabe.

Nothing can stop the Blue Tsunami.

See you in November, Palintir Fuckwad.

[IcyPeas]

30. ... unless they cheat.

[Fiendish Thingy]

35. I'm not worried about Palantir manipulating election results

Too many other variables involved, especially this year.

[lastlib]

12. My Shakespeare amendment:

"The first thing we do, let's kill all the billionaires."

Sounds like a plan.........

[DinahMoeHum]

27. Nah, not the billionaires themselves, but their children.

. . .and their grandchildren.

destroy the generational transfer of their ill-gotten wealth.

[mountain grammy]

13. K&R for the

Fuck this dude. WTF!!! I assume he’s completely disconnected from women and even Americans.

[highplainsdem]

14. He's a misogynistic monster.

[FakeNoose]

15. I'm only interested in disrupting the power of billionaire CEOs - who are almost exclusively men

Alex Karp is an asshole and he's anti-American.

[highplainsdem]

17. Thanks for posting this, Nevilledog! Btw, I don't think TNR has a paywall. I've never hit one, anyway.

[Nevilledog]

42. I get one every now and then so I err on the side of archiving it.

[NBachers]

18. This is the Most Efficient Final Solution crowd at work.

[skypilot]

19. So, it looks like I went to high school...

...with this fucker. Just looked him up on Wikipedia and he graduated from my high school two years after I did, so he would have been a sophomore when I was a senior. I never met him and don't remember him.

[belpejic]

20. Psychopath

I'm convinced that this guy Karp is a psychopath. He's definitely a loose cannon, and is probably far less intelligent than he thinks he is. He really should not be making such consequential decisions about how surveillance technology is deployed by the federal government.

[hunter]

21. The boys party and the women clean up the mess when its over.

The quicker this AI party ends, the less mess there will be to clean up.

[catsudon]

22. i feel very dirty making money off Palantir stocks

i promise to use those ill gotten gains for good

[Clouds Passing]

23. With you. Fuck.This. Dude

[FadedMullet]

25. "And to make this work...." Make what work? A.I. or the disruption of society? What's your real goal here?

[Grins]

26. Palantir founder: Peter Thiel

Any questions...?

[yellow dahlia]

28. I caught most of the interview on CNBC, by accident.

I found him very difficult to try and understand - his communication style is childish and incomplete. Indeed - he shouldn't be entrusted with anything.

The interviewer was very wishy washy - I don't know here name.

[Bread and Circuses]

29. So AI is going to take the Jobs of

highly educated, often female voters, who vote mostly Democrat…


Sounds like this guy knows ZERO Democratic women.

OR What Work they REALLY DO!

[clevergrrrl]

31. Alex Karp is a staunch supporter of Israel as well

[MLWR]

32. If I should have the pleasure one day of reading that this freak is dying slowly of a very painful disease,

I promise I won't cry.

[markodochartaigh]

33. "...our ability to be American..."

American is like Scotsmen, there is no true one.

[milestogo]

34. PALANTIR CEO ALEX KARP ANNOUNCES THAT HE IS A MISOGYNIST PIG

AND HE IS FULL OF KRAP.

[ECL213]

36. Well, highly educated, often female voters, who vote mostly "Democrat"....

ain't gonna stop voting.

[Jacson6]

37. Appears delusional. n/t

[ChicagoTeamster]

38. How exactly does the technology lessen power of educated females and increase that of less educated men?

Do we really want a society where the roles requiring more educated people are replaced or destroyed by technology? Won't the educated people just wind up using the technology? How are they replaced and the less educated elevated?

[uponit7771]

39. Normal humans do **NOT** hate these day walkers enough

[C Moon]

40. Palantir Fascismitis

[valleyrogue]

41. Peter Thiel's outfit. n/t