Palantir Co-Founder: AI Will Double the Average American's Wealth

The gist

1. Lonsdale says every major industrial shift destroys roughly half of existing jobs yet median worker wealth increases exponentially, so blocking AI to save jobs backfires.
2. He points to 7 million unfilled vocational jobs as evidence the real problem is unwillingness to work, not AI taking opportunity away.
3. Palantir was designed as a civil liberties tool, using audit logs and access controls so that anyone who views sensitive data leaves a permanent, undeletable record.
4. Lonsdale argues smaller government paired with AI for fraud detection and drug approval can reduce corruption rather than enable it.