Palantir CEO Alex Karp Recorded a Video About ICE for His Employees
Palantir employees have spent weeks asking company leadership for answers on the company’s work with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). On Friday, Palantir CEO Alex Karp finally appeared to give in—sort of.
In an email sent to all Palantir employees, Courtney Bowman, Palantir’s global director of privacy and civil liberties engineering, shared a prerecorded, nearly hour-long video conversation with Karp about Palantir’s involvement with ICE.
“On the back of recent events, internal conversations, and calls from many of you to better understand how executive leadership is wrestling with questions central to Palantir’s place in the world today, I sat down with Dr. Karp earlier for a longform discussion,” Bowman wrote in the email, viewed by WIRED. “To be clear, our objective in this exchange was not to cover each detail of every controversy that graces the liveliest of company Slack channels, nor to fully assuage every concern that each of you may carry … Most of all, Dr. Karp has made clear his commitment to reinvigorating his direct engagement with Hobbits and this discussion endeavors to model the form of rigorous dialogue that should be at the center of Palantir’s prized culture.” (Palantir leadership sometimes refers to employees as “hobbits,” after the fictional Lord of the Rings characters.)
The video did not answer specific questions about Palantir’s product capabilities, however, or how ICE was utilizing Palantir’s products. Instead, the video said workers could sign nondisclosure agreements if they wanted more detailed information.
Palantir did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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