"The Axios Show": Palantir CEO rejects surveillance state fears

Americans are being monitored more closely by private companies than by government, and should worry about that rather than a new "surveillance state," Palantir co-founder and CEO Alex Karp told "The Axios Show."Why it matters: Palantir, which sells software for AI-driven decisionmaking, has become a target for some in both parties who worry about a too-powerful government.What he's saying: Karp said that for all the discourse around government surveillance, "no one seems to care" that "98%" of the actual day-to-day monitoring of Americans' activities is done by companies — often "because they want to sell us, like, cornflakes.""That's the reality of life in the West," Karp told Axios' Mike Allen. "That is where the problem is."Friction point: Karp argued that "pattern of life" surveillance is necessary to track a suspected terrorist or pedophile. "If you expand that to normal citizens, that is surveillance of the kind that no one wants," he continued.Threading that needle requires "very, very precise tools." That, Karp suggested, is where Palantir comes in: "We are monetizing the fact that these decisions are difficult."The intrigue: Karp also offered the more elaborate argument that if governments can't stop terrorist attacks now, they will trample more on civil liberties later.He said governments must go about stopping terrorists in such a way that "your right ... to meet someone you think is hot and go to bed with them is protected."

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