With a $15 billion net worth, Palantir CEO Alex Karp predicts he will get 20x richer from AI—but that middle-class workers will get just modest raises

The artificial intelligence boom has propelled Palantir’s market value to roughly $322 billion—and pushed CEO Alex Karp‘s net worth to about $15 billion. But the 58-year-old has just warned that the wealth imbalance generated by AI is only going to get worse.

“The biggest problem in this country is [AI] will raise the standard of living of the average person, but the people involved are likely to get 10, 100 times wealthier than they already are,” Karp told Axel Springer CEO Mathias Döpfner on the MDMeets podcast. “That’s a problem for society.”

Karp estimated AI could make him “20x wealthier,” implying a fortune approaching $300 billion. Middle-class workers, he said, might simply see their salaries double over the next decade. Karp slammed the disparity as a “complete decoupling of unimaginable wealth and normal wealth.”

For Karp, the problem isn’t just the scale of the wealth—it’s who is likely to accumulate it.

“It’s done by people you don’t really relate to, like very oddly shaped IQ specimens that you probably wouldn’t want to have over for dinner,” Karp said. “And if they were over for dinner you’d have nothing........

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