[archagon]

Well, for one, they saw the Slaughterbots[1] video and thought it was a great idea instead of a cautionary tale: https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/comments/1hexwjc/slaughterbo...

Alex Karp also tends to publish some extremely disturbing polemics about how 'The West' needs to remain dominant at all costs. For example: https://www.palantir.com/q4-2024-letter/en/

> We are still in the earliest stages, the beginning of the first act, of a revolution that will play out over years and decades... The unfortunate thing, either in business or politics, is that many of one’s adversaries and antagonists will never respond to anything but strength—that crude form of power that does not ask for but which requires compliance and deference... As Samuel Huntington has written, the rise of the West was not made possible “by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion . . . but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence.”

And that's an official letter to the shareholders. Like, what the fuck is that? You could tell people that these quotes came from a military dictator and they would not bat an eye.

Karp has a palpable savior complex and seems to relish the idea of applying violence against enemies of his desired world order.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slaughterbots