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Shyam Sankar

Chief Technology Officer & Executive Vice President, Palantir

Search every verified Shyam Sankar interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Shyam Sankar, Palantir's Chief Technology Officer and Executive Vice President, appeared on CBS's "Face the Nation" and Fox News's "America's Newsroom" in October and September 2026 to discuss artificial intelligence regulation and national security applications. On "Face the Nation," Sankar said the technology industry bears the burden of demonstrating AI's tangible benefits, such as job growth, rather than ephemeral conveniences. He attributed much of the AI safety discourse to what he described as a "millenarian doomsday cult" called effective altruism, arguing that doomsday prophecies lack technical grounding. He also discussed military targeting, stating that AI enables a thousand strikes in a day with one person in four hours, compared to two weeks of planning by 50 people previously, and emphasized that AI is not picking targets but rather executing a defined set of effects. In his Fox News appearance, Sankar echoed these themes, describing the push to slow AI development as rooted in a "cult-like belief" rather than technical reality. He argued that AI is an American phenomenon and expressed confidence in American workers leveraging the technology, saying the main obstacle is "fear mongering." He also addressed potential conflicts of interest regarding Palantir's government work, stating that such work is carefully managed by lawyers to avoid conflicts, and described serving in the US military as a great honor as an immigrant.

Recent appearances

  • Face the Nation: Barrasso, Pappas, Sankar

    October 11, 2026 · 📺 Face the Nation and CBS News

    Missed the second half of the show? GOP Senate Whip John Barrasso and Democratic Rep. Chris Pappas join. Plus, Palantir's Chief Technology Officer Shyam Sankar. "Face the Nation" is America's premier Sunday morning public affairs program. The broadcast is one of the longest-running news programs in the history of television, having debuted Nov. 7, 1954, on CBS. Every Sunday, "Face the Nation" moderator and CBS News senior foreign affairs correspondent Margaret Brennan welcomes leaders, newsmakers, and experts to a lively round table discussion of current events and the latest news. Subscribe…

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  • Full interview: Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar

    October 11, 2026 · 📺 Face the Nation and CBS News

    Watch Margaret Brennan's full interview with Palantir Chief Technology Officer Shyam Sankar. A portion of this interview aired on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan" on Oct. 11, 2026. "Face the Nation" is America's premier Sunday morning public affairs program. The broadcast is one of the longest-running news programs in the history of television, having debuted Nov. 7, 1954, on CBS. Every Sunday, "Face the Nation" moderator and CBS News senior foreign affairs correspondent Margaret Brennan welcomes leaders, newsmakers, and experts to a lively round table discussion of current events and…

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  • Palantir offical rips AI 'DOOMSDAY CULT'

    September 16, 2026 · 📺 Fox News Clips

    Palantir Chief Technology Officer and Executive Vice President Shyam Sankar discusses the growing debate over artificial intelligence regulation and safety on ‘America's Newsroom.’ #fox #foxnews #media #breakingnews #us #usa #new #news #breaking #americasnewsroom #ai #artificialintelligence #technology #palantir #shyamsankar #sankar #airegulation #innovation #washingtondc #washington #dc #politics #political #politicalnews #government #congress #tech #aisafety Don’t just watch Fox News—be part of it. Become a Fox News Patriot today. https://youtube.com/foxnews/join Subscribe to Fox News! htt…

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  • Palantir Technologies Q2 2026 Earnings Call | Revenue Surges 93% on US AI Demand Acceleration

    August 05, 2026 · 📺 i101

    Palantir Technologies Q2 2026 Earnings Conference Call. Twitter - https://x.com/i101yt If you find our work useful, please support us by purchasing a Super Thanks— it truly helps us a lot. #earningscall #StockMarketNews #conferenceCall Earnings Call | Earnings Conference Call | Earnings concall | concall | quarterly results | Stock News | Full Year results | Fiscal Year results | investment news | stock latest news | Annual Meeting of Shareholders | Annual Meeting of Unitholders | Special and Annual Meeting of Shareholders | AGM | Annual General Meeting If you want us to remove your comp…

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  • LIVE: Palantir Technologies | Q2 2026 Earnings Webcast

    August 03, 2026 · 📺 Wealth,Finance & Investment Center

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  • Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar Talks Defense Tech Adoption | Bloomberg Talks

    July 15, 2026 · 📺 Bloomberg Podcasts

    Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar says the Pentagon has accelerated defense tech adoption, speaking with Bloomberg News' Tyler Kendall on Bloomberg Open Interest at the 2026 Pennsylvania Defense & Innovation Summit. He also warned against turning away from AI innovation, saying doing so would be "as consequential a mistake as turning our back on the atom in the 70s." See omnystudio.com/listener (https://omnystudio.com/listener) for privacy information. Bloomberg Talks curates top interviews from around Bloomberg News. Hear conversations with the biggest names in finance, politics and entertainment.…

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  • Boz To The Future #27: The Future According to Shyam Sankar

    July 02, 2026 · 📺 Meta

    In this episode, Boz sits down with Shyam Sankar, CTO of Palantir Technologies, fellow Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. Army Reserves, and author of Mobilize: How to Reboot the American Industrial Base and Stop World War III. The two reflect on their shared experience as part of Detachment 201, one year into their service. They discuss Shyam's ""heretics and heroes"" framework for innovation, Palantir's ""artist colony"" culture, and why Shyam believes AI will reindustrialize America and create millions of jobs. A conversation about conviction, culture, and what happens when builders show up t…

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  • #190 Shyam Sankar - Chief Technology Officer of Palantir: The Future of Warfare

    July 01, 2026 · 📺 MindVoice Production

    Shyam Sankar is the Chief Technology Officer at Palantir Technologies. A builder at heart, he's spent over 20 years designing and ...

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  • #288 Shyam Sankar - Are We Sleepwalking Into World War 3?

    July 01, 2026 · 📺 MindVoice Production

    Shyam Sankar is Chief Technology Officer and Executive Vice President at Palantir Technologies, where he has served since 2006 as one of the company’s earliest hires and key builders. A seasoned technologist with over two decades of experience, he has led the design and deployment of software platforms that support some of the world’s most complex and high-stakes environments. from defense operations to enterprise systems. Sankar holds a B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Cornell University and an M.S. in Management Science and Engineering from Stanford University. His career re…

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  • Inside Palantir: Building Software That Matters | Shyam Sankar on a16z

    March 20, 2026 · 📺 a16z

    In this conversation, Shyam Sankar, chief technology officer at Palantir Technologies, discusses his new book Mobilize, his commission in the U.S. Army, and why he believes the most important thing America can do right now is inspire its latent heretics to step forward. He also breaks down how he thinks about the SaaS market under AI pressure, what the "alpha versus beta software" distinction means for which companies survive, and why he started a film production company. Timestamps: 00:00 — Introduction 07:53 — Rebuilding the Industrial Base 18:01 — Joining the Army to Modernize 24:20 — The…

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  • Shawn Ryan Discusses AI w/ PALANTIR CEO Shyam Sankar

    March 19, 2026 · 📺 INFORMER247

    In this Video Shawn ryan of the SHAWN RYAN SHOW interviews PALANTIR ceo Shyam Sankar on the benefits of Artificial Intelligence and its widespread applications for Every Day Workers. #shawnryanshow Palantir Shyam Sankar

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  • AI Side Quests, Software Debts, Nvidia GTC, Zaslav's Payday, Microsoft Reorg

    March 17, 2026 · 📺 TBPN

    06:57 AI Side Quests 23:17 𝕏 Timeline Reactions 45:47 Jensen Huang on Going to Space 49:13 Zaslav's Payday 52:56 Carried No, an anonymous X user known for his distinctive profile picture, discusses the unfolding crisis in software private equity and private credit markets, highlighting the unsustainable financing structures that have led to a looming debt repayment cliff in 2028-2029. He emphasizes the role of AI disruption in accelerating these challenges, as enterprise customers shift to shorter contract terms due to technological uncertainties, thereby undermining the traditional stability…

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Verified interview transcripts

Notable quotes

“The technology industry has two burdens. One is to show very clearly to the American people that AI is going to result in economic prosperity and security for the nation. And two, to actually do and absorb the burden of engineering. You cannot abdicate this idea that designing safe products is your job. You can't handwave around it. If you look at the kind of narratives that come out of the doomsayers, they seem like”

“The burden is absolutely on the technology industry to show the American people that there are real benefits to AI and not kind of ephemeral sort of benefits like it can help me schedule travel, but actually meaningful benefits that result in job growth and prosperity for the American people. I think one of the things that's really complicated in the current discussion is that there's an unseen force driving the narr”

“Targeting is a process. And if you think about the military operations, you know, the ability to execute a thousand strikes in a single day would have taken two weeks of planning by 50 people before. And being able to do that with one person in four hours provides you a significant battlefield advantage against your adversaries. So it's really not about, you know, people jump immediately to something like AI picking ”

“I think the burden is absolutely on the technology industry to show the American people that there are real benefits to AI and not kind of ephemeral sort of benefits like it can help me schedule travel but actually meaningful benefits that result in job growth and prosperity for the American people. I think one of the things that's really complicated in the current discussion is that there's an unseen force driving t”

“The ways in which I think the American people are really being lied to about AI is that you have on one hand incredible doomerism like hey this thing it's going to lead to like mass unemployment. 50% of entry-level jobs are going to be destroyed inside of a year or two and on the other hand you have essentially this fantasism. It's going to lead to a utopia like untold abundance. I think neither of these things are r”

“The American people are being lied to there. And I've earned an opinion working with American workers on the front line, whether it's the factory floor or the ICU ward. Trying to bring back the bonds between our industrial base like the private sector and government again.”

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