Palantir’s Alex Karp warns the World Economic Forum against mass immigration

Palantir CEO Alex Karp suggested on Tuesday that the use of artificial intelligence “strengthens human liberties,” while also warning Europe that its adoption of the technology is lagging behind the US and China.

In a wide-ranging interview with Blackrock CEO Larry Fink at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Karp said his company has “tons and tons of hospitals,” but said they all have a “food crisis” and a “shortage of doctors and nurses.”

“They operate in a low margin environment, but everyone has a different way of processing their patients, in terms of what is their specialty and the type of patients they don’t do well with, and how do you control that? And so the flow of entry and entry into your business in a way that you can process these things 10, 15 times faster than before,” said Karp. “It saves a lot of lives.”

“Despite what people may want to believe, it also strengthens civil liberties, because now you see, well, I mean, just simple questions – Was someone scrutinized based on economic considerations, or was he scrutinized based on their history? Like those things it is impossible to see, unless you have, as it were, there is a great side of the development of civil liberties of this that often people do not believe that there is something to the contrary, but in fact we believe that we really care about it,” he continues on the contrary.

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“We care, and you know, showing cares. It’s like we can show over and over again why someone came in, why they were taken, why they were rejected, and we can do it in a way that makes business sense for the business itself,” said Karp.

When asked by Fink if AI will create a greater imbalance in the world in terms of growth, Karp said, “Yes, I think the first imbalance that is obvious is, it seems that the United States and China understand the versions of doing this work, and they are different, but they both work, and they work at a high level, and I think that may be faster than most people believe is possible.”

“As a discount rate, I think, not in the short term, but in the long run it’s very high in terms of what will be done and how this will affect all aspects of our society,” said Karp.

He also said: “The adoption of technology in Europe is a serious and very structural problem, and what scares me the most is that, I have never seen any political leader stand up and say that we have a big structural problem that we are going to fix.”

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Alex Karp, CEO of Palantir Technologies Inc., during the World Economic Forum in Davos on Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2026. (Krisztian Bocsi/Bloomberg via/Getty Images)

When asked if he thinks AI will create or destroy jobs overall, Karp said, “I think one of the sad things about the narrative in the West is, it’s going to destroy people’s jobs.”

“But as professionals. If you’re a craftsman. Or, like, we build batteries for a battery company and the people who do it in America do almost the same work that Japanese engineers do, and they go to high school,” he continued. “And now, they’re very important, if they can’t be replaced, because we can make them something different than they were, very quickly. And those jobs will be very valuable.”

Alex Karp speaks on stage during the New York Times DealBook Summit on December 3, 2025, in New York City. (David Dee Delgado/The New York Times/Getty Images)

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“Not that I’m deviating from my usual political views, but there will be enough jobs for the citizens of your nation, especially those with vocational training,” Karp said. “I think these circumstances make it difficult to imagine why we should have immigration unless you have a special skill.”