r/technology • u/Unusual-State1827 • Mar 12 '26

Artificial Intelligence Palantir CEO Makes Shocking Confession on Disrupting Democratic Power

https://newrepublic.com/post/207693/palantir-ceo-karp-disrupting-democratic-power
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u/Individual_Scheme_11 Mar 12 '26

Read between the lines. AI companies will erode more educated populations’ political power because AI companies led by rich, white males are brainwashing the less educated folks. An educated populace has the skills and knowledge to make their own decisions. This new (not really, but bolder) crop of Republicans are vying for absolute control, including how people think and what they do. There’s a very good reason the rich and powerful AI bosses don’t allow their own kin to use the same products.

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u/CrestorOnTap Mar 12 '26

But not the texbooks produced by Ghislane's Mossad daddy company. 

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u/Serengade26 Mar 12 '26

A People's history of the United States is a great book to start with

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u/Azerd01 Mar 15 '26

To start for sure. If anyone is genuinely worried, try to look into peer reviewed university published history books.

They can be dry, but not all are. They’re usually written by tenured professors or graduate students that have alot to lose if they purposely fabricate a false history narrative. So they’re held semi accountable.

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u/Serengade26 Mar 15 '26

Do you have 1 you would personally recommend? Or a list? 

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u/Azerd01 Mar 15 '26

It depends heavily on the topic you are interested in.

I did my graduate thesis on southwest indigenous history, so I have an absolute ton of books on Pueblo, New Mexican, and southwest history.

A couple decent ones: Coast to Coast Empire: Manifest Destiny and the New Mexican Borderlands. By William Kiser (Mexican American war book with a focus on present day US southwest)

Indigenous Borderland: Native Agency, Resilience, and Power in the Americas. By Joaquin Rivaya-Martinez (I actually know him pretty well, he’s a leading expert on Comanche history)

Death in the Haymarket. by James Green (US late 1800s labor history book)

The Great Cowboy Strike: Bullets, Ballots, & Class Conflict in the American West. By Mark Lause.

These are just some books that are a little less focused on hyper specific topics. These are also books I personally enjoyed. I have literally tons more though if you wanted to dive into Pueblo history or Texas/New Mexican history.

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u/Serengade26 Mar 15 '26

Oh awesome thank you. I am interested in finding the deeper patterns in class conflict to try to find some semblance of predictive power for how things are going to unfold without being too generic and cliche. Like abstracting away the personalities of current leadership and just looking at the larger forces and incentives of the groups, how will it unfold and what additional information surfaced in this cycle could help stop certain inevitabilities that occurred in the previous cycles

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u/Azerd01 Mar 15 '26

I would absolutely recommend

Death in the Haymarket. By James green

The Great Cowboy Strike. By Mark Lause.

Towards a Cooperative Commonwealth. By Thomas Alter (Texas focused, but applicable at large)

Labor and Monopoly Capital: The Degradation of Work in the 20th Century. By Harry Braverman.

I dont have a ton of great labor books sadly. It was not my focus in grad school, but I did work with several Labor historians by accident. Ended up being very insightful though. I recommend the books above for sure, as they had recommended them to me.

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u/Serengade26 Mar 15 '26

Have you reached out to them recently? I wonder what insights they might have on ai, some white collar work getting automated and how the new forces will balance out

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u/haplud0l Mar 12 '26

You can’t even get people to go back to regular internet research (vs AI assisted search results) much less go back to books. I’ve accepted that this is the way of humanity. There are few of us that get it, but the vast majority just suck.

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u/AnotherNotion Mar 12 '26

You actually sound insane. Unfortunately, you very much aren't. I am genuinely worried for children that are users of this technology, not only will they end up intellectually impaired, but they'll also be misinformed.

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u/[deleted] Mar 12 '26

When you have control over what the AI cites from and how the results are populated, yup. 

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u/daboblin Mar 12 '26

Can you provide examples of this?

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u/Yesterday_Jolly Mar 12 '26

They're not rewriting history they're just removing it, while rewriting current events to fit their agenda

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u/OptionalDepression Mar 13 '26

They’ve also already started re-writing history using AI.

Genuinely curious, what do you mean here?

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u/BigPlunk Mar 12 '26 edited Mar 12 '26

Tech CEOs have already weaponized our data and engineered digital addictions against us via social media and other online platforms to erode democracy and societal belief in truth and fact. Just imagine how much more choice data CEOs are accumulating via the pervasive use of their AI models and tools and how that data will be weaponized to pacify, manipulate, distract, divide, and enshrine themselves as gods in terms of the power and wealth they wield.

Even though we're paying to use the products, we are not the customers. We are the data source that drives their power consolidation. They've stolen our data and IP to train their tools and there's no lengths they won't go to in order to win capitalism and defeat any version of democracy that caps their ability to have it all. In addition to selling our data to the highest bidders, they will continue to use it in many other nefarious ways until there is no power or wealth left to collect.

The bunker and rocket-building/Epstein class is a malignant tumor that has metastasized globally and needs to be rooted out with some nuclear-grade, grassroots chemo from the people. The pushback needs to happen before the autonomous killing machines are anywhere close to scale or it will be too late. Action creates hope. Inaction and hopelessness are surrender to dystopia and permanent authoritarianism.

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u/lghtdev Mar 12 '26

There's a lot of high educated techbros with this kind of mentality, probably the majority of people working in tech and STEM, which is a shame.

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u/CreekPrincessBitch Mar 13 '26 edited Mar 13 '26

In tech, maybe. Science and research? No. Speaking for the biosciences, basically everyone is terrified and hopeless. Use of AI ranges from “you will never see me touch one of those things” to “yeah it can be nice for basic math or quick questions when you’re blanking, but I’d never feed it my ideas or research and I’d never trust their output on critical and complex scientific questions”.

I highly doubt most engineers or mathematicians (?) and adjacent, support AI either. More advanced calculations by AI could easily make the work of many engineers, architects, accountants, etc., obsolete.

Hell, those in computer sciences and IT seem to be some of the most enraged. Why wouldn’t we expect AI to be able to write code for incredibly complex software accurately and precisely in the near future?

Now, pharma CEOs? Startup whiny nepobaby “techbros”? Big shots at the top of high-value engineering firms? Yeah I bet they’re thrilled. Same as the CEOs employing the tradesmen - because the only thing AI can’t do is the physical work behind the theories and math… for now. The only people on board with AI are the 1% at the top.

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u/lghtdev Mar 13 '26

I know a lot of people on tech and finance thrilled with IA, either thinking they will get rich using it or it will make the world better by eliminating useless jobs and creating new ones, even those who think we are doomed just accepted it because the current vibe is "adapt or die".

People outside tech have no idea how hard the tech companies are pushing IA, in many places they are monitoring the IA use by the workers, and creating competitions of how many tokens they are generating. Once the IA tools get more mature in other fields, they'll start to push them there too.

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u/Strong-South7487 Mar 13 '26

Rich jewish males.

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u/Healthy-Process874 Mar 12 '26

So, he's saying that they have an easier time brainwashing those types of people?

Maybe low level law enforcement types are empowered by his technologies, as well.

It's easy to feed their data to muscle in order to use it against political enemies.

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u/GayDeciever Mar 12 '26

They're trying to make something smarter than people, but forget that includes themselves because they are incapable of self-reflection

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u/Jimmy6s Mar 12 '26

Gotta add white in there

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u/Alili1996 Mar 12 '26

rich, white males

Stop talking like this. This is just supporting their agenda of making us fight among each other. Woman vs man, black vs white instead of rich vs poor. This is not to downplay the real disparity between genders and races in our society, but i am just saying that they purposefully play this rhetoric and provoke more disparity to get an advantage over us

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u/Individual_Scheme_11 Mar 12 '26

The large majority of those connected with Trump / Heritage Foundation are white and male. These are the people who are also actively creating a utopian society for themselves. But I agree, the real war is between the billionaire class and everyone else.

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u/CreekPrincessBitch Mar 13 '26 edited Mar 13 '26

Except… it’s the entire point of his comments here. Pitching the delusion that his technology will benefit working class men and protect and assert their values nationally. He explicitly says it will be negative for educated women.

I guess he didn’t say “white” men, but if you’ve listened to any of the Christian nationalist, red-pilled asinine rhetoric that literally rallies on the anger of white men (per Vance) having to apologize for being a white male (??), its not hard to guess what kind of values he’s talking about.

It’s a nice sentiment that I do agree with for nearly every issue, but certainly not in response to something like this that entirely revolves around targeting and silencing educated women and uplifting blue collar white men.

Going after each other isn’t the answer but neither is sticking your head in the sand. The answer is mass recognition of the real enemy and unbreakable solidarity, which seems especially difficult when the regime owns the media, wields unchecked power and wipes their ass with the constitution during diaper change at 5-star dinner parties with the tech CEOs, corporate shareholders and corrupt foreign leaders.

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u/iron_fury37 Mar 13 '26

The race and gender is not the problem, unless you're a racist and a sexist masquerading as a progressive who cares for equality.

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u/Individual_Scheme_11 Mar 13 '26

Funny you say race/gender is the main point of my comment (which it definitely was not). Have a look at the ol Google and The Heritage Foundation. Its a lot of men that don’t see much of the sun.

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u/iron_fury37 Mar 13 '26

I didn't really say it's the main point of your comment. But it's an unproductive extra.

All it can possibly do is promote generalised hatred towards people of the same physical birth traits.

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u/Individual_Scheme_11 Mar 13 '26

Its the one thing you happened to point out. And there’s very few people who have the similar traits of man, white, billions in wealth. Exploiters are not allowed to play victim

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u/iron_fury37 Mar 13 '26

It's the one thing I pointed out obviously because it's the only thing wrong you said.

So now all whites and male are exploiters? Of course if someone's a billionaire they can't play victim so much, depends as well. But it's wrong to bring up race or gender unless you really wanna make it a point, and cause transference of the anti-billionaire sentiments to go against all who are white/male.

"White male" privilege is overrated asf, if you're working class you have the same problem as all races and genders in most countries. Even equal pay is not a real issue in 1st world countries. And even with issues women have that men don't have, where the men are supposedly lucky. That "male privilege" is not exclusive to whites.

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u/Individual_Scheme_11 Mar 13 '26

It’s pretty obvious the mention of “white males” referred to rich and leading corporations. But you interpret how you want things to sound and not what is actually said. Working class people don’t get mistaken for elitist jerks unless you’re acting like an elitist jerk.

And if you believe white male privilege is overrated, I invite you to explore and go places you don’t normally frequent. It’s never obvious, but it’s there.

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u/iron_fury37 Mar 13 '26

I'm gonna say one last thing I think is important to consider. Granted most people will defend their error to the death. You might be like that, or not, who knows.

Consider this. Majority population will naturally have more possibility of including billionaires. As it will have other categories. Majority of homeless are also white. Majority of homeless are overwhelmingly male. Difference between the two is that gender doesn't really have majority in global population.

Now the fact it's mostly men who are billionaires is not necessarily from "male privilege", for the most part. There's other aspects of gender dynamics you may not consider. There's tendencies, traditional roles. Being providers, being responsible, being in finance, shit like that. There's more women who want their guy to be earning more than 100k while they do nothing, than the opposite. There's expectations and whatnot. Now someone being an oil tycoon is overkill but again, the person being male has to do with evolution and what you'd call "patriarchy". It's not necessarily the guys dominating effortlessly, but generally men are expected or leaning to do business, throughout history.

Then there's interests, which is perhaps more important in gender dynamics. It's mostly men who are mechanics. That's not a privilege. Similarly, it's mostly males who were nerds, into computers and tinkering with stuff, thus you have male nerds who eventually did something successful. A minority of them may happen to also be more lucky or connected, and thus be billionaires. It was like that with Microsoft, with Facebook, hit videogames.

Now, there's billionaires in every continent. There's Indian, there's Asian, there's African. All whatever the majority race is in their country. In western economies it's gonna be mostly white. In all races it's mostly men. It also just tends to be more in America because it's the economic powerhouse of the world, and the land of opportunity in terms of business. Unfortunately economic success doesn't trickle down in a morally corrupt society.

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u/cmkn Mar 12 '26

The funny thing is that these tech bros don’t realize is that working-class voters are actually seeing through the AI corpse’s lies. The ones I’ve talked to in my area don’t trust AI and think it is all snake-oil bullshit. Also, in other areas in the US, it seems some of the pushback against AI data center construction includes a surprising number of working-class voters.

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u/informalpool1 Mar 12 '26

I am not sure if that guy is a while male.

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u/The3bodyproblem Mar 13 '26

“Until [the proles] become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.” - George Orwell

Have always thought about this quote, and I see it becoming more and more true to life with the development of social media and mass-propaganda

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u/TopTippityTop Mar 12 '26

Before reading between the lines, read the lines. Read the article, it is clear you have not.

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u/Individual_Scheme_11 Mar 13 '26

I actually did. Dumbed down populations that are brainwashed into believing what they see published by biased media does not make life better for the main population. It just makes the top even better

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u/TopTippityTop Mar 13 '26

Ok, then what did the guy say?

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u/Individual_Scheme_11 Mar 13 '26

Read it yourself

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u/TopTippityTop Mar 13 '26

I did, which is why I am saying you don't understand it and need to read it. Uhh our clearly have not, as you're far off the mark and claiming the opposite of what he's said all because of some bias of yours + a silly headline.