Alex Bores
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first heard Feb 2026
last heard 21 Apr
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And here's what I mean by that.
Palantir was aggressively anti-AI in that period.
It believed that data integration was the true source of value and that AI was a magic layer that would be applied on top and it was all marketing and we were doing the real work that was getting data to come together.
Yeah, well, so AI, in a very naive sense, I mean, we'll talk about it in other ways now, but this is before agentic models and all of this, but AI is doing analysis of data.
And before you can do the analysis of that data, it needs to be organized in a way that AI can make sense of it.
But the actual thing that's difficult is organizing all your data together.
That requires hard work, and there's no magic to do that yet.
And the software plus engineers going on site and doing a lot of that hard work to do the manual hookups, that was always going to be the true source of value.
I was leading the work at the Loretta Lynch, Barack Obama DOJ, and then all of a sudden the Jeff Sessions, Donald Trump DOJ, and priorities changed pretty drastically.
The work with the banks was probably wrapping up anyway just because of time, but clearly there was no more interest in that work.
The contract that we had had us choose three mutually agreed upon case types.
And so I met with the new leadership after the transition.
This is early 2017.
And said, you know, what do you want to prioritize?
What do you want to work on?
And they said the opioid epidemic.
We said, great.
We definitely want to do that work.
They said violent crime.
cool, as long as it's not a dog whistle, like, yeah, we'd love to work on that.
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