What Does Palantir Actually Want?
Palantir aims to become the default AI and data infrastructure layer for Western institutional and military power.
“Our product is used on occasion to kill people.”
A ColdFusion video analyzes Palantir CEO Alex Karp's openly militaristic framing of the company's mission, contrasting it with Silicon Valley's older 'connecting people' rhetoric. It matters as a signal of a broader CEO-messaging shift toward explicit defense/AI nationalism and Palantir's ambition to be the AI infrastructure layer for Western institutional power.