Alex Karp rips Dario Amodei's AI-safety narrative: 'asking for regulation to dodge liability'

pdamodaran · x · 2026-09-18

Palantir CEO Alex Karp publicly pushed back on Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's AI-safety advocacy, calling it "a weird twist": technology capable of destroying 10% of the world already carries civil and criminal liability, and asking for societal regulation amounts to escaping the first line of defense — the builders' own responsibility.

The clash highlights the widening Silicon Valley split over whether frontier-lab pushes for AI regulation are about safety or about dodging legal liability and competitive pressure.

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