World Economic Forum panel: Palantir CEO Alex Karp says AI-driven job displacement will “make it hard to imagine why we should have large-scale immigration”

Bloomberg 2026-01-21 Shona Ghosh

@srossmktg.com Spencer M Ross on bluesky
This is the same Palantir that is leveraging all the ICE data for mass surveillance. — This company is as as catastrophic as ExxonMobil with even less incentive to adapt.
@mims Christopher Mims on bluesky
I guess I should have expected this crossover of ideologies and yet still, somehow, I am surprised [embedded post]
@outside2344 Quinn Ellis on bluesky
Talent is uniformly distributed. The only way this statement is true is if multinationals form teams in every country to tap that talent. — Is that what we want? Because that doesn't sound very America first and would undermine our technological dominance.
@elparece @elparece on bluesky
never seen anyone this high on their own supply before, a perfect storm of self-rationalization and grandiose delusion — www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Palantir CEO Says AI to Make Large-Scale Immigration Obsolete
@nxthompson @nxthompson on x
The most interesting thing in tech: Everyone in Davos is talking about geopolitics and the growing antagonism between the US and Europe. But geopolitics are sometimes downstream of tech. And one thing that Europe could do is build its own open-source AI models. @ericschmidt [vide…

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