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Value Is in the Eye of the Beholder

By KIM BELLARD The most (unintentionally) amusing story I read this week was Tim Higgin’s Wall Street Journal article Alex Karp Is Saying What Every Angry CEO Is Thinking About AI. Dr. Karp (yes, he has a Ph.D.), co-founder and CEO of Palantir Technologies, is upset about how AI companies are using relationships with their business customers to harvest data and business insights from those customers. “Something has gone completely wrong,” he fumed. Now, this is Palantir, mind you; it may not have invented surveillance capitalism but it might have perfected it. It has become essential...