The publication protects a tough state agenda, criticizes the pacifism of Germany and Japan and calls AI the basis of a new deterrence era.
Palantir, a company that is usually discussed in conjunction with state orders, intelligence and law enforcement agencies, itself has thrown a reason for a new scandal over the weekend. In the corporate account there was a “brief” set of 22 theses based on the book of the head of the company Alex Carp The Technological Republic. The book Karp wrote together with the head of corporate communications Palantir Nicholas Zamica, and the authors themselves after the release called the work an attempt to formulate the theoretical basis of what Palantir does.
The meaning of the book and the new post is very straightforward. Karp and Zamsk claim that the Silicon Valley turned the wrong way, became interested in convenient consumer services and moved away from the tasks of the state, army and the “West” in a broad sense. The publisher describes the book with almost the same words as the call to return the technology industry to big state tasks, primarily for defense and a new race in the field of artificial intelligence. The columnist The New Yorker saw in the book not a neutral essay about the future of technology, but a mixture of corporate myth, sermons and political warnings that the United States needs to re-fuel the military-industrial complex.
The resonance has intensified the moment of publication. Just a few days before the post, a group of Democrats in Congress demanded that DHS and ICE explain how Palantir’s tools and other surveillance companies are used in the Trump administration’s tough migration campaign. Legislators have requested contractual data, data sets, privacy protection measures, and how such systems help to find people for deportation. The background was already tense and without a new manifesto. Back in 2025, federal documents showed that ICE pays Palantir $ 30 million for ImmigrationOS, a system for selecting goals and tracking deportation processes.
Against this background, 22 thesis is read no longer as an abstract philosophy, but as a political program of the company. Palantir writes that the “free email is not enough”, talks about the inevitability of weapons on the basis of AI, announces the end of the atomic age and the beginning of a new era of deterrence on the basis of AI, and at the same time calls for a review of the post-war “disposal” of Germany and Japan. A separate item calls the national service a universal duty. In other words, it is no longer just that technology should help the state, but that defense, coercion and technological superiority become an almost moral category for the company.
Critics saw in the publication a rare moment of extreme frankness. Bellingcat CEO Eliot Higgins sarcastically noted that for a public statement of the corporation, such a text looks “absolutely normal”, and then added a tougher thought. According to Higgins, in front of the public is not a philosophy in a vacuum, but an ideology of the software supplier for defense, intelligence, migration and police structures. In Britain, the reaction was not milder. After the publication, the deputies began to demand a revision of Palantir contracts with the state, including major projects for the NHS, the police and the military department.
Palantir tried to publish almost casually, saying, a summary was “because we get asked a lot”. The defense didn't work. When a company simultaneously sells tools to the state, protects work with migration structures and publishes its own view of what the new world order should be, the border between book advertising, corporate ideology and political manifesto is almost disappearing. That is why the dispute around Palantir has already gone far beyond the bookshelf and turned into a conversation about how much the authorities are ready to give to a private tech company democratic state.
Palantir, a company that is usually discussed in conjunction with state orders, intelligence and law enforcement agencies, itself has thrown a reason for a new scandal over the weekend. In the corporate account there was a “brief” set of 22 theses based on the book of the head of the company Alex Carp The Technological Republic. The book Karp wrote together with the head of corporate communications Palantir Nicholas Zamica, and the authors themselves after the release called the work an attempt to formulate the theoretical basis of what Palantir does.
The meaning of the book and the new post is very straightforward. Karp and Zamsk claim that the Silicon Valley turned the wrong way, became interested in convenient consumer services and moved away from the tasks of the state, army and the “West” in a broad sense. The publisher describes the book with almost the same words as the call to return the technology industry to big state tasks, primarily for defense and a new race in the field of artificial intelligence. The columnist The New Yorker saw in the book not a neutral essay about the future of technology, but a mixture of corporate myth, sermons and political warnings that the United States needs to re-fuel the military-industrial complex.
The resonance has intensified the moment of publication. Just a few days before the post, a group of Democrats in Congress demanded that DHS and ICE explain how Palantir’s tools and other surveillance companies are used in the Trump administration’s tough migration campaign. Legislators have requested contractual data, data sets, privacy protection measures, and how such systems help to find people for deportation. The background was already tense and without a new manifesto. Back in 2025, federal documents showed that ICE pays Palantir $ 30 million for ImmigrationOS, a system for selecting goals and tracking deportation processes.
Against this background, 22 thesis is read no longer as an abstract philosophy, but as a political program of the company. Palantir writes that the “free email is not enough”, talks about the inevitability of weapons on the basis of AI, announces the end of the atomic age and the beginning of a new era of deterrence on the basis of AI, and at the same time calls for a review of the post-war “disposal” of Germany and Japan. A separate item calls the national service a universal duty. In other words, it is no longer just that technology should help the state, but that defense, coercion and technological superiority become an almost moral category for the company.
Critics saw in the publication a rare moment of extreme frankness. Bellingcat CEO Eliot Higgins sarcastically noted that for a public statement of the corporation, such a text looks “absolutely normal”, and then added a tougher thought. According to Higgins, in front of the public is not a philosophy in a vacuum, but an ideology of the software supplier for defense, intelligence, migration and police structures. In Britain, the reaction was not milder. After the publication, the deputies began to demand a revision of Palantir contracts with the state, including major projects for the NHS, the police and the military department.
Palantir tried to publish almost casually, saying, a summary was “because we get asked a lot”. The defense didn't work. When a company simultaneously sells tools to the state, protects work with migration structures and publishes its own view of what the new world order should be, the border between book advertising, corporate ideology and political manifesto is almost disappearing. That is why the dispute around Palantir has already gone far beyond the bookshelf and turned into a conversation about how much the authorities are ready to give to a private tech company democratic state.