Palantir CEO Alex Karp said billionaire investor Peter Thiel is right to question Google's decision to work in China, while abandoning military contracts in the US.
that the FBI and CIA should investigate the company to see if it has been "infiltrated" by foreign intelligence agencies.that Palantir "doesn't work with adversaries of the US."
"Does the average American trust a platform company, including Google, to decide whether we should be the dominant player in AI?" Karp told Bloomberg. "Is that something we want to outsource to a small number of platforms in a very small part of the world, with people who are from a very narrow sliver of society?"
"I reject that, and I reject that a handful of people in Palo Alto are going to determine what the lawful execution of policy is," he added.it would not renew a controversial contract with the Department of Defense after it expired in March. Under the contract, referred to as "Project Maven," Google partnered with the Pentagon to help it analyze and interpret drone videos using artificial intelligence.
Those moves prompted Thiel to refer to Google's work in China as "seemingly treasonous." The comments caught the attention of President Donald Trump,Many experts have downplayed Thiel's concerns, including Trump's national economic advisor, Larry Kudlow, who said: "I meet with Google, I meet with Google's CEO on a regular basis. I think they're working for America, for our military, not for China."of the very community his company is a part of in the past.
Palantir, which is reportedly eyeing an IPO in 2020, was founded in 2004 by Karp, Thiel and other ex-Stanford students. The company develops defense and intelligence products, as well as corporate management software.
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