WASHINGTON, D.C.— Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar said he’s seen significant progress since his Fox News op-ed imploring America to take advantage of both AI and the American worker, while sharing some observations on China’s use of AI."China treats AI as industrial policy," Sankar wrote on X in July.
"Our labs treat it as theology, a race to birth a machine god.Beijing's play: commoditize the complement.
All that frontier lab market cap gets transmuted into demand signal to scale the stack below the models: power, chips, minerals, etc.Americans can and must win the full stack."Yet, Sankar acknowledged that even if America's not thinking about how to scale AI in all these other industries like China, it will happen naturally in the U.S.
as the technology develops.THE BIGGEST THREAT IN AMERICA'S RACE WITH CHINA ISN'T BEIJING, TECH EXECUTIVE WARNSShyam Sankar, chief technology officer of Palantir Technologies Inc., speaks during the Hill & Valley forum at the US Capitol in Washington, D.C., on April 30, 2025.(Al Drago / Bloomberg)"The only threat to AI generating prosperity for America is suicide and homicide," Sankar told Fox News Digital at Palantir's American Builder Summit in July.
"I'm not really worried about what is China going to do per se.I'm more worried about bans on data centers and kind of unfettered and unwarranted fears curtailing our ability to actually generate wage growth for the American worker.""And so, I think really having a strong narrative that is told not by any companies, but actually by the people themselves is important for us to get excited and motivated and get lined up behind that opportunity," he added.In February, Sankar wrote an op-ed for Fox News Digital noting that in order to catch up to China, the U.S.
would have to harness the tools at its disposal: the American worker and AI."AI development and deployment should prioritize American workers and American industry," he wrote."The goal is not efficiency in the abstract —...