Palantir Chief Technology Officer Shyam Sankar told the Ruthless Podcast in a new interview that there has been a shift within the technology community, and since President Donald Trump returned to the White House, tech entrepreneurs are now building in the national interest."You have hundreds of founders out there now who are building in the national interest," Sankar said in an interview released Thursday morning on the shift in the tech sector."And I think this is a sort of galvanizing message for us to go and get after it."The interview took place at the Pennsylvania Defense and Innovation Summit at the United States Army War College in Carlisle, Penn.
The meeting, organized by Sen.Dave McCormick, R-Penn., convened technology and defense sector executives with senior government and military leaders.A PROGRESSIVE POPE TAKES AIM AT AI AND RISKS KILLING ITS MIRACLESSankar, who published the bestselling Mobilize: How to Reboot the American Industrial Base and Stop World War III, told the Fellas about the economic benefits artificial intelligence (AI) is bringing to American communities, including in Pennsylvania.
The increased productivity is creating more jobs for Americans.Shyam Sankar, chief technology officer of Palantir Technologies, speaks during a Bloomberg Television interview on the sidelines of the Pennsylvania Defense and Innovation Summit in Carlisle, Pa., on Wednesday, July 15, 2026.(Tom Brenner/Bloomberg via Getty Images)"[AI] is expanding the labor population, our ability to mobilize the American worker," Sankar said.
"Right here in Pennsylvania, we actually have a submarine parts manufacturer that was able to add a third shift.Production planning used to take two weeks.
And during that time, mostly the line was down.With AI, they were really able to make that happen in effectively two-tenths of a second, which meant they had more parts to make, which meant that they needed more workers."Podcast co-host Michael Duncan appreciated how Sankar’s a...