Michael Steinberger

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509 appearances 6 recordings 6 series first heard Dec 2025 last heard 3 Jul

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The Daily · Inside the Tech Company Powering Trump’s Most Controversial Policies · 16 Dec 2025 podcast

It doesn't exist just to help the U.S.

government fight the war on terrorism, but it exists more broadly to help defend the West.

That is their view, and he's passionate about this, defending the West, but also defending what he sees as core Western values, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, freedom of religion, what we know as civil liberties.

He believed that Palantir could develop technology that would enable the government to find the bad guys without becoming a massive dragnet pulling in lots of innocent Americans.

And he's drawn to Palantir's mission for very personal reasons, reasons that are tied to his own identity.

Yeah, because... He understands from a young age, he says, that he had, in his view, some strikes against him.

And it's a sense of vulnerability he carries into adulthood and brings with him to Palantir.

And in the aftermath of 9-11, there was obviously a lot of concern that there were going to be many more terrorist attacks.

And Karp's view is that when people feel threatened, whether because of crime or because of terrorism, they inevitably turn to the far right.

And he wants to prevent that because liberal democracy, robust protection of minority rights, these are things that matter greatly to him personally.

And so he sees Palantir as a way of possibly preventing that political outcome.

Exactly.

He thought that if there were more terrorist attacks and many more mass casualty events because of terrorism, voters were inevitably going to turn to the far right because they think that the far right will protect them and they will become much less inclined to protect minorities and so forth because they're scared and they want protection and they think the far right will protect them.

They will turn to authoritarianism.

He wants to prevent that outcome and he sees Palantir as a means possibly of helping prevent that.

Well, it begins with the CIA, which becomes a Palantir client.

They then develop a business with the U.S.

military.

This is very much in keeping with their mission.

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