Richard M. Reinsch II
In (Crown Currency, 2025), Alexander C. Karp and Nicholas W. Zamiska warn that there must be a robust collaboration between Silicon Valley and the federal government to defeat America’s enemies in the future. They explain that a creative and productive relationship between the two is a vital component needed to restore America’s national edge in the coming and current conflicts with China, Russia, and other wayward nations. Both authors are at Palantir, a firm known for specializing in big data analytics. Alex Karp is the co-founder and CEO of Palantir, and Nicholas Zamiska, is the head of corporate affairs and legal counsel to the CEO.
America should return to the tradition of close collaboration between the technology industry and the government, they write, because “this new era of advanced AI, … provides our geopolitical opponents with the most compelling opportunity since the last world war to challenge our global standing….” Karp and Zamiska note that such a necessary public-private partnership is being prevented by left-liberalism and all of its puniness, guilt, inwardness, and lawlessness, which has fostered a lack of belief in national spirit and culture by the current business and engineering class in Silicon Valley.
To support their single overarching argument, the authors fuse three separate problems in The Technological Republic: market-capitalism, political, and cultural problems, which are all somehow best demonstrated by the refusal of our most advanced engineers and tech companies to design and construct the technology that our great republic requires to hold back or defeat its enemies. Why all of this is needed to support the authors’ ultimate argument that America is in grave danger because its tech elites and the federal government aren’t working together to build AI and other tech weapons needed to beat our enemies is not exactly clear.
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