
Co-founder & CEO, Palantir United States
Center-left
A self-described progressive who arms the West: software wins wars, Silicon Valley lost its way, and the AI gold rush is "effing insane."
Community poll — liberal or conservative?
The biggest problem in this country is [AI] will raise the standard of living of the average person, but the people involved are likely to get 10, 100 times wealthier than they already are.
"Something has gone completely wrong" with how AI is sold: he called the industry "effing insane," accusing frontier labs of overcharging, exploiting customer data, and jeopardizing US national security.
Source: CNBC Squawk Box (via Forbes) ↗Announced an open-weight model partnership with NVIDIA — aligning Palantir with the open-model camp days before he attacked the closed frontier labs on television.
Source: The Washington Post AI Brief ↗The rest of the record — every position, the goals behind them, and where a newer stance sits awkwardly with an older one — is on the details page.