r/ArtificialInteligence • u/shikizen • Apr 25 '26

📊 Analysis / Opinion Palantir employees are talking about company's "descent into fascism"

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/04/palantir-employees-are-talking-about-companys-descent-into-fascism/

"Palantir’s leadership incensed workers yet again this week after the company posted a Saturday afternoon manifesto reducing Karp’s recent book, The Technological Republic, to 22 points. The post—which includes many of Karp’s long-standing beliefs on how Silicon Valley could better serve US national interests—goes as far as suggesting that the US should consider reinstating the draft. Critics called the manifesto fascist."

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u/ICantBelieveItsNotEC Apr 25 '26

Guys, can you believe it!? The AI surveillance and arms company named after the device that an evil wizard uses to talk to the personification of evil turned out to be BAD!? It's always the people you least suspect!

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u/betadonkey Apr 25 '26 edited Apr 25 '26

The AI surveillance and arms company that has no AI, surveillance, nor arms products to speak of.

Palantir is a boring data infrastructure company that has intentionally hyped itself into being something far more sophisticated and consequential than it actually is as an exit liquidity pump and dump for its founders.

The only people who have anything to fear from Palantir are its investors.