Alex Karp: Palantir manifesto described as 'ramblings of a supervillain' amid UK contract fears

[Eugene]

Earlier DU thread: Yesterday Palantir posted a manifesto summarizing a book by its crazy CEO, Alex Karp. Link to Threadreader page.

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Source: The Guardian

Palantir manifesto described as ‘ramblings of a supervillain’ amid UK contract fears

Alarm caused by posts of Alex Karp, tech firm’s CEO, championing US military dominance and of AI weapons

Aisha Down and Robert Booth
Tue 21 Apr 2026 06.00 BST
Last modified on Tue 21 Apr 2026 10.48 BST

The US spy tech company Palantir published a manifesto extolling the benefits of American power and implying some cultures are inferior to others – in what MPs have called “a parody of a RoboCop film” and “the ramblings of a supervillain”.

“Some cultures have produced vital advances; others remain dysfunctional and regressive,” wrote Palantir in a 22-point post on X over the weekend, which also called for an end to the “postwar neutering” of Germany and Japan.

The post exhorted the US to reinstate a military draft, saying that “free and democratic societies” need “hard power” in order to prevail.

It also predicted a future dominated by autonomous weapons: “The question is not whether A.I. weapons will be built; it is who will build them and for what purpose. Our adversaries will not pause to indulge in theatrical debates about the merits of developing technologies with critical military and national security applications. They will proceed.”

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/21/palantir-manifesto-uk-contract-fears-mps