Today on IHIP, we are joined by Alex Bronsini Vinder, who is a writer from New York.

He is part of the Harvard Crimson, correct?

Yes.

And he just wrote the most fascinating article for New York Magazine.

Palantir comes to campus at a quiet conference at Yale,

the company and its allies sketched a vision for AI, state power, and how to mix the two.

And so as I was telling Alex before we got on here, my view of Peter Thiel and Alex Carp

and Palantir is that they are maniacal net jobs that want to take over the world.

Peter Thiel has been outspoken how he does not believe democracy can coexist with the future.

And this just rampant elitism that the smart people should control everybody else, which

comes, which I interpret that as rich people,

should control poor people. That's where I come to this article. So what I thought was fascinating

about this whole deal were the contradictions in it and the fact that Alex Karp and Peter

Teal are so outspoken about how they view what AI should do.

They should do weapons.

They should be involved in ICE.

They should, you know, do the draft.

They've made all this money under Trump, I think, a 93% increase in revenue.

Yet they go in on campus on the down low.

So I thought that was an interesting thought. How did you perceive that?

I mean, it was a highly low profile conference. There was no signage in the lobby. I only found out about it through a flyer that was sent by my editor.

There was nothing promoted about this publicly.

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