Will anything stop Palantir?
5/13/202624 min
The shadowy U.S. tech company Palantir has had a meteoric rise from complete obscurity to transforming the nature of surveillance forever. Pivotal to that rise is its unorthodox CEO, the philosophising tech-entrepreneur Alex Karp.
As Palantir integrates itself into systems in every facet of life, from Australian supermarkets to the controversial U.S. ICE raids, Alex Karp provides justifications and bold mission statements for his company, citing a laser-focus on maintaining U.S. hegemony across the world. In doing so, he believes Palantir prevents the rise of undemocratic, far-right movements. But is there any line that Palantir won’t cross to assert U.S. superiority? And could they be in danger of undermining the democracy they claim to defend?
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Find it all in the ABC Business Daily feed on ABC Listen or wherever you get your podcasts. This podcast was produced on the lands of the Awabakal and Gadigal people. There's a strange story about Alex Karp, the CEO of data analytics company Palantir. Well, almost every story about Alex Karp is strange, but I'm gonna tell you this one. [upbeat music] Back in 2016, Karp was interviewing a young British man named Louis who was applying for a position at Palantir. As Louis sat down in Karp's office, Karp began to recite this infamous historic speech All the cotton mills of India, the cotton mills of Japan, the cotton mills of China have been created by British money This is Oswald Mosley, the most famous British fascist of all time, giving a speech encouraging the British government to stay out of World