Overview
- At the New York Times DealBook Summit on Dec. 3, Alex Karp said Palantir is “highly ethical” and insisted the company is not building a surveillance database or a facial-recognition system.
- He acknowledged that legally collected surveillance data can be ingested into Palantir products, saying, “If you’re legally surveilled… could you put it in our product? Yes.”
- Pressed on the constitutionality of recent U.S. boat strikes in the Caribbean, Karp argued that making such actions more precise and constitutional would require Palantir’s technology.
- Karp backed the company’s work with ICE and praised the president’s immigration agenda, as Palantir provides tools such as ImmigrationOS for deportation operations and holds major Defense Department contracts.
- He criticized corporate bailouts and said “poor people” pay for elite failures, while pointing to strong results including roughly $1.18 billion in Q3 revenue and an outlook above $4 billion for the year.