Squawk Pod Reports from Davos: Palantir’s Alex Karp 01/18/24

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🗓️ 18 January 2024

⏱️ 19 minutes

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In a special episode of Squawk Pod, Andrew Ross Sorkin sits down with Palantir CEO Alex Karp at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. A CEO consistently unafraid to speak out, Karp is urging fellow leaders to stand up to antisemitism. The Ukrainian military and the Israeli Defense Ministry use Palantir technology in their respective war efforts, and Karp expects his technology to continue solving geopolitical problems in the years ahead. Plus, Joe Kernen and Becky Quick join Andrew to digest the Palantir CEO’s bold take on leadership, AI and machine learning, and the importance of standing up to discrimination. Karp warns that antisemitism has “always been a canary in the coalmine” for larger failures across society’s institutions, including in higher education. In this episode: Becky Quick, @BeckyQuick Joe Kernen, @JoeSquawk Andrew Ross Sorkin, @andrewrsorkin Katie Kramer, @Kramer_Katie

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0:00.0	It was always hard in history to stand up against discrimination, brutal acts,
0:09.1	pogroms, sexual violence. We are at the point where you have to stand up.
0:13.4	Halandheer CEO Alex Karp, why he's at the World Economic Forum in Davos, standing up against
0:18.8	antisemitism, and why he's urging his fellow leaders to speak up for their beliefs.
0:23.6	If he spent the last five years lecturing us about all sorts of things that no one believes
0:28.8	you believe in private, you can't just wake up the next day and say, oh, I can't speak about this thing I believe, or say I have no opinion.
0:36.0	Palantir's software is at our borders, in our government, and in war zones in Ukraine and Israel.
0:42.0	Alex Karp knows the intersection of tech and geopolitics,
0:45.3	and he's raising a warning.
0:46.7	Anti-Semitism as a kind of prejudice
0:49.3	is always been the canary in the coal mine
0:51.7	for your society isn't working your university isn't
0:54.8	working.
0:55.8	Karp is calling for change in the Western world starting with higher education.
1:00.4	We have a very large focus on what we pay, not what comes out. In check, we have absolute myopic focus on what comes out, not what goes in. And like our institutions have to move from what did we spend to what did we get.
1:13.6	Our Squawkbox team is on the ground where tech and politics and humanity meet at Davos
1:19.5	with Palantiers Alex Karp.
1:21.3	That was fabulous, beyond.
1:23.0	I'm C. NBC producer Katie Kramer. Squawk Pod reports from Davos.
1:27.0	Palantir CEO Alex Karp begins right now. World leaders and tech leaders all at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, and many of them are stopping
1:44.7	by our CNBC set.
1:46.6	This interview is with Palantier CEO Alex Karp, who swung by the Alps for just a day.
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