PALANTIR CTO SANKAR: AI is a tool for the American workforce, not a replacement for it
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Americans are being lied to about Artificial Intelligence (AI). On the one hand, we are given apocalyptic prophecies of job loss and oppression—even the extinction of mankind. On the other hand, we hear nightmares of a future without work, without sickness, perhaps without death—a life without purpose or work.
Utopians and Doomers make the same mistake: they ignore human agency.
The future of AI is not an inevitability that must be endured by the American people—it is up to us, the American people, to shape.
AI is not god. It cannot snap its fingers and complete tasks; people will use AI to reduce jobs or create them. AI cannot decide to oppress us; humans will build AI tools that enforce privacy and civil liberties or destroy them. AI didn’t choose to write poetry or produce porn; people chose to create cheap consumer goods rather than actual means of production.
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These are the choices you and I have to make every day.
I have spent the last two decades alongside the men and women who are shaping the future of American AI. They include some of the world’s best software engineers, but also college dropouts, veterans, blue-collar autodidacts, and nurses. They don’t see AI as something that will happen to them—they see it as a tool to use to make themselves more productive and our country safer and more prosperous. And you should too.
The benefits of AI are for all Americans.
Below are the principles and themes I’ve seen inform people and organizations using AI effectively and in the service of worthy goals: industrial innovation, prevention, improved healthcare, and more.
A. AI is a tool for the American worker, not a replacement
The story of job losses is a strategy to attract investors, drive media attention, and mobilize political power. The real promise of AI in business is to make the American worker 50x more productive—liberating their taste and agency. This is not speculation; it is true.
Palantir Chief Technology Officer Shyam Sankar (FNC/Palantir)
I have seen manufacturers in the marine industry use AI to open the third shift. I spoke with an ICU nurse who has learned to use AI so she can spend more time at the bedside, where she is needed most.
Doomerism is an ivory tower luxury; the future of AI is being built on the front lines and factory floors.
II. The American worker will use AI to do more with less—and be more productive and valuable as a result
For a century, America’s prosperity was underwritten by a simple agreement: the more the worker produced, the more the worker earned. That consensus was broken in the 1970s—not by technology, but by policy choices that disempowered workers. We will not repeat that mistake.
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When AI doubles output, the employee using it should see that profit reflected in their paycheck, budget stack and business share. This is not a redistribution—an observation. An employee is not a cost center; you are a value generator. Treat him accordingly.
III. The American worker deserves world-class tools, not AI trinkets
An electrical engineer in Georgia who enlisted in the Navy right out of high school deserves the same skills as a computer science grad from Stanford in Silicon Valley. You deserve access to real productivity tools, not consumer toys.
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Before Gutenberg, a book cost as much as a house. Knowledge was locked away in monasteries and locked on shelves. The press broke that information only. AI is the press of our time—the same technology that works for Fortune 500 companies should help the worker in Tulsa, the nurse in Tampa and the farmer in North Dakota.
The benefits of AI are for all Americans.
IV. AI is America’s birthright
AI is a product of American grit, ingenuity, and culture. It is our birthright. No American worker should be left behind because of a lack of training. Employees should have access to meaningful AI education that helps them bend AI to their will—not the other way around. An ICU nurse does not need to learn to code; he needs AI to surface the right patient data at the right time—so that his clinical judgment, honed over years at the bedside, can be applied faster and more accurately.
The American worker is not in short supply; he has low energy. AI is protection.
Implementation of V. AI should be developed and implemented by advanced users
The best employee understands what the C-suite doesn’t. Policy should be developed for clinicians—the ICU nurse, the production technician, the logistics coordinator—not academics, consultants, or lawyers.
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Toyota built the most successful manufacturing system in history on a simple premise: the worker knows best. Its Creative Idea Suggestion System has been in operation for over 70 years. Ideas flow from the factory floor, not down from the corners of offices. The result: billions in value created, and a culture where every employee owns quality.
AI development and deployment must prioritize American workers and American industries. The goal is not the efficiency of the invisible—the success of America in the concrete.
