Palantir Comes to Campus

At a quiet conference at Yale, the company and its allies sketch a vision for AI, state power, and how to mix the two.

Photo-Illustration: New York Magazine; Photos Getty Images On a Thursday in April, I headed to the north end of Yale’s campus and persuaded a passing fellow student to swipe me into a building. Fourteen floors up, the Palantir Foundation — a think tank run by several of the software company’s senior executive team — was about to convene its third annual Atlantic and Pacific Forum, co-hosted with Yale’s Jackson School of Global Affairs. The event hadn’t been publicized online, and I saw no signage for it in the building’s lobby. Only select Yale students had been invited. (I RSVP’d using a plai

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