PALANTIR CTO SANKAR: AI is a tool for American workers, not their replacement
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The American people are being lied to about artificial intelligence (AI). On the one hand, we are presented with apocalyptic prophecies of job loss and oppression, and even the extinction of the human race. On the other hand, we hear utopian fantasies of an effortless, disease-free, perhaps even immortal future, of a life without meaning or mission.
Utopians and doomsayers make the same mistake: They neglect human action.
The future of artificial intelligence is not an inevitable situation for the American people to endure; It is our duty, the duty of the American people, to shape it.
Artificial intelligence is not a divinity. He can’t snap his fingers and make things go away; people will use artificial intelligence to reduce jobs or create jobs. AI cannot decide to oppress us; people will develop AI tools that either strengthen privacy and civil liberties or erode them. AI didn’t choose to write poetry or produce pornography; people chose to produce cheap consumer goods rather than real means of productivity.
These are the choices you and I must make every day.
I have spent the last twenty years alongside the men and women who are building the future of American AI. These include some of the world’s best software engineers, as well as college leavers, veterans, blue-collar autodidacts and nurses. They don’t treat AI like it’s something that will happen to them; They see it as a tool they can use to make themselves more productive and our country safer and more prosperous. You should too.
The benefits of AI belong to all Americans.
Below are some of the principles and themes I see informing people and organizations that use AI effectively and serve valuable purposes such as reindustrialization, deterrence, improved healthcare, and more.
I. Artificial intelligence is a tool for the American worker, not a replacement
The job loss narrative is a ruse to attract investors, garner media attention, and consolidate political power. The real promise of artificial intelligence in business is to make the American worker 50 times more productive, unleashing his taste and willpower. This is not speculation; this is real.
Palantir Chief Technology Officer Shyam Sankar (FNC/Palantir)
I have seen maritime industrial base manufacturers use AI to unlock the third shift. I spoke with an intensive care nurse who is learning to use artificial intelligence to spend more time where she is needed most: at the bedside.
Catastrophism is a luxury of the ivory tower; The future of AI is being built on the front lines and factory floors.
II. American workers will use AI to do more with less and become more productive and valuable as a result
For a century, America’s prosperity was guaranteed by a simple bargain: When workers produce more, workers earn more. This bargain was broken in the 1970s not by technology but by policy choices that stripped workers of power. We won’t repeat this mistake.
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When AI doubles output, the worker using it should see that gain reflected in their paycheck, stock, and share of the company. This is not redistribution, but recognition. The worker is not a cost center; he is the co-creator of value. Treat him/her appropriately.
III. American workers deserve world-class vehicles, not AI trappings
The electrical engineer in Georgia who joined the Navy after high school deserves the same talent as the Stanford computer science graduate in Silicon Valley. Consumers deserve access to real productivity tools, not toys.
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Before Gutenberg, a book cost as much as a house. Knowledge was locked in monasteries and chained to shelves. The printing press broke this monopoly on information. Artificial intelligence is the printing house of our age; The same technology that serves Fortune 500 companies should also serve workers in Tulsa, nurses in Tampa, and farmers in North Dakota.
The benefits of AI belong to all Americans.
IV. Artificial Intelligence is a birthright in America
Artificial intelligence is the product of American courage, creativity, and culture. This is our birthright. No American worker should be left behind due to lack of education. Employees should have access to meaningful AI training that will help them navigate AI at their own pace; not the other way around. An intensive care nurse does not need to learn coding; It needs AI to surface the right patient data at the right time; Thus, the clinical judgment he has developed at the bedside over the years can be applied faster and more accurately.
The American worker is not lacking; It can’t use enough leverage. AI is leverage.
V. AI implementation should be shaped by and for frontline users
Front-line employees understand what senior managers don’t understand. Policy should be shaped by practitioners (ICU nurse, production technician, logistics coordinator), not academics, consultants or lawyers.
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Toyota built the most successful production system in history on a simple foundation: The worker knows best. The Creative Idea Suggestion System has been operating for more than 70 years. Ideas flow up from the factory, not from corner offices. Result: Billions in value created and a culture where every employee has quality.
AI development and deployment must prioritize American workers and American industry. The goal is not efficiency in the abstract, but American prosperity in the concrete.
Push power to the tip of the spear and let the American worker do what he does best.
VI. Artificial intelligence should be used to reduce bureaucracy and free up human agency
Artificial intelligence should eliminate bureaucracy, not increase it. There is no new theater of harmony. There are no “AI governance” committees designed to slow things down and centralize power in “managers.” AI should empower the American worker to move faster rather than slowing them down.
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Every layer of processes that stands between frontline workers and their ability to do their jobs is a burden that must be eliminated.
VII. American workers and American industry should be prioritized in the development and deployment of artificial intelligence
AI development and deployment must prioritize American workers and American industry. The goal is not efficiency in the abstract, but American prosperity in the concrete.
China’s manufacturing productivity is increasing at 6% per year. Ours is growing by 0.4 percent. If we don’t invest in artificial intelligence and automation, we will lose. American workers with AI superpowers are eroding China’s competitive advantage.
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I see these principles embodied and practiced every day by men and women who are not invited to speak on panels, record podcasts, and publish columns. They are quietly leading by example and proving what is possible when the most powerful technology ever created meets the most talented workforce ever assembled.
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Armed with artificial intelligence, American workers will rebuild our industrial base. He will leave every rival behind. It will create prosperity not only for itself but also for its children, who will inherit not a diminished nation but a rising nation.
Silicon Valley is developing artificial intelligence. Wall Street is financing this. Washington is regulating this.
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However, American workers working in factories, intensive care units, and fields use it.
And this will change everything.
