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Palantir CEO Alex Karp calls for AI lab nationalization

  • On Thursday, Palantir Technologies CEO Alex Karp called for nationalizing AI labs and imposing civil and criminal liability on developers for "not being responsible," arguing policymakers must establish "reasonable guidelines."
  • Frontier AI labs are seeking nationalization to escape lawsuits alleging intellectual property theft, Karp alleged, stating "if you don't nationalize them, every single one of my clients is going to sue."
  • Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an essay on Saturday advocating for a coordinated slowdown, warning that recursive development could produce rogue AI agents capable of taking over the internet.
  • Karp suggested the only path to liability protection requires a government ownership stake of 50%, emphasizing "that model would require severe liability protection, and there's only one institution that can do that: the US government."
  • President Donald Trump has dismissed AI safety concerns as a "hoax" and signaled no interest in industry regulation, creating uncertainty for investors evaluating how this all shakes out for the technology sector.
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(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Joo Jong-guk = Alex Karp, CEO of Palantir, an American AI-based data analytics company, said that AI development companies...

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