Shyam Sankar on next phase of the artificial intelligence revolution

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🗓️ 2 January 2025

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Shyam Sankar, Palantir Technologies CTO, joins The Post’s Jonathan Capehart to discuss the impact of AI on companies across industries and America’s global technological competitiveness. Conversation recorded on Thursday, December 5, 2024.

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0:00.0	I'm Jonathan Capehart and welcome to Capehart.
0:03.0	On December 5th, the Washington Post hosted its latest, The Futurist Summit, The Rise of AI, this time in New York City.
0:12.0	The afternoon event featured some of the sector's biggest leaders in business.
0:16.0	I kicked off the summit with a conversation with Shams Sanker, chief technology officer,
0:22.4	and executive vice president at Palantir Technologies, a company with contracts with all five
0:28.2	branches of the military.
0:30.4	Sanker gets into how the military is using its AI tools and how commercial enterprises
0:35.6	tap into its technology.
0:38.0	He also talks about the competition with China and whether authoritarianism gives it an advantage.
0:44.5	And I ask him about the balance between intelligence gathering and privacy concerns.
0:49.8	The only thing worse than terrorism is the reaction to terrorism.
0:52.6	No one wants to live in an Orwellian world.
0:55.0	If you're going to collect data, you have to be able to protect the data you're collecting,
0:58.0	whether that's in the healthcare context in the commercial world or the intelligence
1:01.0	context in the government world.
1:03.0	And you have to build those robust protections in it.
1:06.0	So this year, Palantir won a $100 million contract with the U.S. government that will expand access to AI
1:13.0	tools to all five branches of the military. First, can you explain how the technology works
1:21.0	that the military is or will be using? Really, the work that we've been doing has started with the program
1:29.8	Maven, which I think began in 2018,
1:32.3	which is the military's effort
1:33.5	a crash program on AI to actually
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