Alex Karp on Why AI Will Hurt the Middle Class: You Can’t Have Billionaires Becoming 100x Wealthier
On The Builders, Walter Isaacson interviews Palantir CEO Alex Karp about the company's post-9/11 origins and his path from philosophy scholar to its unlikely leader. Karp warns that AI will widen class gaps, says billionaires cannot grow 100 times wealthier while others stagnate, opposes a wealth tax as impractical and surveillance-expanding, and urges legislation keeping battlefield AI out of domestic use.
