MAGA AI Billionaires Infiltrating College Campuses? Insider Exposes All
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Who is Alex Bronzini-Vender and what is his background?
Today on IHIP, we are joined by Alex Bronzini-Vendor, who is a writer from New York. He is part of the Harvard Crimson, correct? Yes. And he just wrote the most fascinating article for New York Magazine. Palantir comes to campus at a quiet conference at Yale. The company and its allies sketched a vision for AI, state power, and how to mix the two. And so as I was telling Alex before we got on here, my view of Peter Thiel and Alex Karp and Palantir is that they are maniacal net jobs that want to take over the world. Peter Thiel has been outspoken how he does not believe democracy can coexist with the future. And this just rampant elitism that the smart people should control everybody else, which I interpret that as rich people should control poor people.
That's where I come to this article. So what I thought was fascinating. fascinating about this whole deal were the contradictions in it and the fact that Alex Karp and Peter Thiel are so outspoken about how they view what AI should do. They should do weapons. They should be involved in ICE. They should, you know, do the draft. They've made all this money under Trump, I think a 93% increase in revenue. Yet they go in on campus on the down low. So I thought that was an interesting thought.
What insights does Alex provide about Palantir's recent campus conference?
How did you perceive that?
I mean, it was a highly low profile conference. There was no signage in the lobby. I only found out about it through a flyer that was sent by my editor. There was nothing promoted about this publicly. The students who I spoke to at this event were all they told me that they believed that they had been there and that they had had the invitation extended to them by the organizers because they were, quote, not going to protest. And some of this, it's you know, it makes sense. Yale recently voted. The student government there recently voted to divest from Palantir. They're not popular on college campuses. So it made sense to me that they would choose to do this so secretly. What maybe made less sense to me is the fact that they would choose to do it at Yale at all.
You may know that Alex Karp and Palantir and this whole sort of intellectual scene, if we can call it that, have... The Palantir co-founder, Joe Lonsdale, is one of the trustees of the University of Austin, which is the school that was co-founded by Barry Weiss. And so why are they doing it at Yale instead of at the University of Austin? That was the question that I didn't fully have answered. And my guess there, if you'll allow me to kind of rant here, is that the purpose of these kinds of institutions that are meant to challenge the big institutions you know, University of Austin and also the Barry Weiss's Free Press is not for them to exist as an end unto themselves. The point of the Free Press is to take over CBS News in the same sense that the point of the University of Austin is to eventually provide a staging ground from which, you know, you can take over or at least exercise immense influence at Yale.
I thought the same thing because the student body did divest that you pointed that in your article.
How do Peter Thiel and Alex Karp view democracy and AI's role in society?
But I also thought it was because my first thought when I saw the headline, Palantir comes to campus, I thought, oh, God, now Palantir is going to be turning point. And it became very clear from the article where turning point goes after low education, lack critical thinking. They are looking for the intellectual elites. So it kind of made sense to me they would go to an Ivy League school to do that because they are after this aristocracy of intellect. And I think you even said that in the piece, am I right?
Yeah, one of the speakers, Rusty Reno, used the phrase aristocracy of the intellect to describe what he believes AI will do to society. It's going to make – it's going to have – this sort of underclass of people who just kind of get all their ideas from the models. And then the rest of us, all of us who go to elite schools and who, you know, go to the Palantir conference are the people who give it the information on, give the chatbots the information on, you know, on politics and on society that's sort of fed to this, you know, to this underclass.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
Who is Alex Bronzini-Vender and what is his background?
0:04–1:30
2
What insights does Alex provide about Palantir's recent campus conference?
1:30–3:27
3
How do Peter Thiel and Alex Karp view democracy and AI's role in society?
3:27–8:36
4
Why did Palantir choose to host a conference at Yale despite its unpopularity?
8:36–22:48
Speakers
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