CEO of Palantir Says He Spends a Large Amount of Time Talking to Nazis

While you were busy wasting your time listening to podcasts and scrolling on your phone, one of America’s leading AI masters was educating himself by talking to Nazis.

That was the startling admission made by Alex Karp, co-founder and CEO of software company Palantir, a company that is under increasingly intense scrutiny for its growing role as a provider of AI-powered surveillance technology for the military and government.

In an interview with broadcaster Molly O’Shea published this week, Karp, who is of Jewish heritage, was discussing German culture and his time in the country before talking about how rude it is that people online are “praising Nazis.” Then he admitted something even more surprising.

“I spend a lot of time talking to Nazis,” Karp said, noting that this is an ongoing hobby of his. “He loves, TRUE The Nazis confirmed.

Karp explained that this was his way of “understanding what made them act,” before making a sarcastic remark.

“Part of the crazy thing about people praising Nazis these days is that there isn’t a single Nazi who would have gotten them into their movement and would have shipped them to the camps faster than they probably sent me to the camps!” He laughed.

Then he pulled out the smoothest part ever.

“Ah, but, um, ah, and it’s like, it’s a ah but” — the interview jumps along — “what’s unique about America,” Karp began to think.

Aside from his role as chairman of Palantir, Karp is known for his philosophical ramblings, “eccentric” personality, and affinity for German culture. He holds a doctorate in philosophy from Goethe University Frankfurt, and draws on his background to defend Western values—particularly American values—as particularly beneficial to the world.

This year, for example, he published a book about the need for the United States to embrace the most technologically advanced weapons to maintain its dominance. An excerpt from this book was published online as an article under the title “We Need a New Manhattan Project.”

Once upon a time, Karp was known as a progressive, which put him at odds with Peter Thiel, a Palantir co-founder, who openly espouses his own brand of techno-feudalism defined by his embrace of race science, his bizarre obsession with the “antichrist,” and his view that allowing women to vote was a mistake.

In recent years, however, Karp has shifted to the right, attacking progressives rather than claiming to be one of them. He recently defended Palantir’s role in providing Immigration and Customs Enforcement with an Orwellian surveillance network to help locate people for deportation, and providing the Israel Defense Forces, which has been internationally condemned for genocide in Gaza, with an artificial intelligence platform designed to make decisions on the battlefield, including analyzing enemy targets. In other words, Karp’s extensive and enlightening conversations with the Nazis seem to have given him no self-awareness about all the evil in which he was involved.

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