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https://fortune.com/2026/06/09/palantir-ceo-alex-karp-massive-ai-layoffs-may-be-bad-for-industry-future-of-work-bernie-sanders-headcount-reductions/Palantir CEO Alex Karp says executives who brag about their AI cuts might as well sign up for the Bernie Sanders manifesto
By Preston Fore
June 9, 2026, 11:47 AM ET

Palantir CEO Alex Karp has a message for Silicon Valley executives touting artificial intelligence-driven job cuts: Dont be surprised if workers and voters turn against you.
Speaking last week on TBPN, the tech talk show recently acquired by OpenAI, the leader of the roughly $325 billion defense contracting and software company warned that corporate leaders need to be more disciplined around how they talk about AI and the future of work.
If you run around saying AI allowed you to fire two-thirds of your workforce because maybe your competitors kicking your ass you might as well just go sign up for the Bernie Sanders manifesto, Karp said.
The jab referenced a growing backlash against the power of major technology firms and fears that artificial intelligence could accelerate job losses. Tech companies have laid off roughly 117,000 employees in 2026 alone nearly matching the total for all of 2025 with firms including Meta, Snap, and Block pointing to AI as a factor in restructuring efforts.
Its a concern that Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) has increasingly seized on. The longtime progressive has repeatedly accused major tech firms of prioritizing profits over workers and warned that automation could deepen economic inequality.
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"Don't mention AI anymore. Just fire them"
FalloutShelter
(14,721 posts)Kill the workforce
just be sneaky about it.
Thatll work.
Takket
(23,859 posts)These ceos think are going to buy their product once they achieve their dream of companies just being a large computer and a ceo collecting the money?
Who is going to have money when ai eliminates all the jobs?
bucolic_frolic
(56,258 posts)and keep all the money. It's all yours. And you can use it to buy what you need if any other companies haven't imploded in like fashion.
bucolic_frolic
(56,258 posts)But on the bright side, the Tech Bros have acknowledged class conflict as an economic and political issue. So they can never say they were in a bubble.
tanyev
(49,909 posts)but then I realized hes the ahole who named his company after the communication devices the Dark Lord in The Lord of the Rings uses to spy and manipulate and he even calls his employees hobbits.
There are bigger problems here than his hairdont.
Sheep with better dos
Passages
(4,643 posts)Sociopaths, perhaps. I hope more Americans understand the dangers of the data centers alone...the amount of water needed is staggering.
Alice B.
(758 posts)I was in a meeting where the client said bluntly that our tech (which was more AI-adjacent / RPI but was marketed as AI) allowed them to eliminate an entire team.
We were all in agreement that we couldn't say that so the party line was "freeing employees from repetitive tasks so they could focus on the things humans do best."
Yeah, an overseas team managing insurance claims really gets to stretch their creative wings *eyeroll*
Johonny
(26,822 posts)And don't give a fuck about the company, the employees or the country. They want to make $$$$ because their special.
Kid Berwyn
(25,413 posts)We the People not only gave them contracts that made them billionaires, now We the Taxpayers will lose our livelihoods while We are foisted on the hook for the trillions that will go into the pockets of Thiel, Musk and Associates.
The New Feudalism with MAGA GOP NAZIs as Simon Legree for the 21st Century.