Palantir CEO calls for US conscription, remilitarization

Pentagon-linked tech giant Palantir has published excerpts from CEO Alexander Karp's new book, 'The Technological Republic,' which calls for a major shift in national security policy. Karp argues Silicon Valley has a moral obligation to participate in national defense and that the atomic age is ending, to be replaced by an era of deterrence built on AI. He advocates for universal military conscription in the United States and the remilitarization of Germany and Japan, stating their postwar disarmament was an overcorrection. The book also criticizes federal compensation and 'cancel culture' for driving competent people away from government service.