Paris Marx is joined by Caroline Haskins to discuss what Palantir actually does and the growing influence it has within the US government and many large corporations.
Caroline Haskins is a staff writer at Wired.
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a16z Podcast: Layering Tech and Culture in Iran
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Michele Elam, William Robertson Coe Professor in the Humanities; Senior Fellow, Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence; Bass University Fellow in Undergraduate Education
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Trailblazing Leadership: Dina Amin's Journey in Tech and Empowerment in the Middle East
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925: AI, Automation and the Future of Work, with Oxford’s Prof. Carl Benedikt Frey
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The Future of Humans, AI and Intelligent Technologies
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