Palantir CEO claims AI will mean western economies won't need immigration

Opinion Palantir CEO Alex Karp has an inimitable aptitude for sniffing out the politically sensitive topic about which, by his own admission, he should not be speaking, but which will also win him the most attention.

Last year, it was the idea of innate western superiority and his belief that his company's software product was "the only reason why someone's not goose-stepping between me and you" on the streets of Europe.

This week, after promising not to go on one of his "usual political screeds," the Palantir CEO went off on one, as the Brits like to say, launching into a speculative analysis of the impact of AI on immigration. Two hot topics in one: bingo.

Flying into Davos for the World Economic Forum — or perhaps appearing in a puff of red smoke from under a ghoulish cloak — Karp responded to probing about the impact of AI on ...