Extra: Palantir’s Shyam Sankar On The 'Lies' Being Told About AI

The Fox News Rundown

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Politics, Daily News, News

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🗓️ 22 February 2026

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Artificial intelligence is developing at a breakneck pace, transforming industries across the globe. But the reaction remains mixed. While some companies are leaning on AI to replace human workers, others are leveraging this newfound assistance to redirect employees toward higher-level tasks—even sparking hiring sprees as AI assumes more routine responsibilities. Will this technology eventually automate your role, or will it simply make your job better, easier, and more efficient? Shyam Sankar, Chief Technology Officer of Palantir Technologies, joins the FOX News Rundown to discuss how businesses are implementing AI just as its oversight becomes a focal point for lawmakers in Washington. Sankar offers a blunt assessment, arguing that the “American people are being lied to about AI.” We often have to trim our interviews during the week, but we thought you’d like to hear this conversation in its entirety. Today on the FOX News Rundown Extra, we share our full interview with Palantir’s Shyam Sankar on the future of "human agency" and artificial intelligence. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:36.2	I'm Jessica Rosenthal.
0:38.0	This past week we spoke with Shyam Sankar, the CTO at Palantir.
0:42.2	He recently wrote an op-ed for Fox News Digital, cautioning against a doom and gloom mindset when it comes to AI.
0:49.3	Palantir has government contracts worth millions, allowing the Department of War,
0:52.6	the U.S. Army, Homeland Security, and Health and Human Services to use their AI-powered platforms for data analytics. Critics say
0:59.2	these contracts were finalized after President Trump's executive order stating the government
1:03.1	must share information across agencies. Palantir CEO has rejected accusations that the tech
1:08.6	can be used for surveillance, and the company said in a statement,
1:11.3	they act as a data processor, not controller, the organizations that use their products
1:15.5	to find what is done with the data they get. And that's the attitude of Shyam Sankar
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