Shyam Sankar cto palantir

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well Trump married to immigrants I mean you know so that there is there is contradiction there of course but

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without the technology that these people are supporting Trump with and providing and getting military contracts and

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government contracts with Trump wouldn't be able to send bounty hunters out with

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software on their phones with their kind of Amazon military costumes and round people up

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yeah there's a role for the the tech industry Um, one of the interesting things that I'd been looking into was um

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there was a project at the Claremont Institute, which is a Trump Allied think tank called the administrative state project. And that the um one of the

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thinkers are on that project uh was co-writing opeds with the CTO of Palunteer. So it was all about thinking

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around it was there there has been a lot of strategy and thinking um around how

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the immigration how technology and tech advanced tech companies like Palunteer

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will further the immigration enforcement push that we're seeing in America. So,

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AI Overview

The user query connects the Claremont Institute's critique of the "administrative state" with the CTO of Palantir,

Shyam Sankar. The Claremont Institute advocates for a reduced federal bureaucracy, while Sankar is a tech executive who has publicly discussed the role of data in government, including defense reform and a recent push for his own service in the U.S. Army. While Sankar's work on government technology intersects with the broader debate on the administrative state, his public statements focus more on practical application of technology rather than the Claremont Institute's specific ideological arguments against federal power.

Claremont Institute and the administrative state

Ideological goal: The Claremont Institute is a conservative think tank that aims to weaken the federal "administrative state"—the vast federal bureaucracy that carries out laws and regulations.

Specific actions: The institute celebrated the Supreme Court's decision to end "Chevron deference," which they see as a way to curb the power of federal agencies.

Focus on localism: The institute promotes a vision of strengthening local leadership and reducing the influence of the national government.

Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar

Role at Palantir: Sankar is the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and Executive Vice President at Palantir Technologies.

Government work: Palantir develops software for data analysis used by government agencies and military organizations.

Public statements:
- Sankar recently wrote an essay for The Free Press about his decision to join the U.S. Army.
- He has published a document called "The Defense Reformation," which critiques the U.S. defense system and proposes reforms, comparing the effort to Martin Luther's 95 Theses.

Perspective on government: In a New York Times interview, he discussed the role of technology and democracy in the context of immigration enforcement, suggesting that the actions of agencies like ICE are a result of the political process where voters have made their choices, which can be a point of "discursive interaction and disagreement".

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The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com › 2025/08/01 › palant...

Aug 1, 2025 — So was Theo Wold, a senior counselor to Palantir who, as director of the institute's administrative state project, has argued that technology is ...