Alex Karp: "We believe the West is superior"

This 'Freak Show' promotion for software / data mining company Palantir superimposes the words of co-founder and CEO Alex Karp over the kind of imagery we're growing familiar with in ads for military technologu in particular. Karp was speaking at AIPCON, Palantir's Artificial Intelligence for Enterprise Conference 2025. Take a look and see what you think of the messaging,imagery and impact. Positioning itself pretty firmly at the security / strategy / tech junction, Palantir says: "While others debate and theorize about AI, Palantir's partners are already transforming their businesses through The Ontology and Forward-Deployed Engineers. Your business's Ontology and FDEs turn LLMs from commodities into weapons of competitive domination. This is the real promise of the AI revolution: radical growth, expanded margins, and businesses that become so differentiated that competitors can only complain from the sidelines". While some regard the company, founded in 2003, as potentially offering the longevity and usefulness of a new Microsoft, critics may dismiss it as a consultancy firm masquerading as a software game-changer or point to its murkier involvement in military operations, high-tech warfare, and civilian surveillance techniques including predictive policing.

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