“China treats AI as industrial policy,” Sankar wrote<\/a> on X in July. “Our labs treat it as theology, a race to birth a machine god. Beijing’s play: commoditize the complement. All that frontier lab market cap gets transmuted into demand signal to scale the stack below the models: power, chips, minerals, etc. Americans can and must win the full stack.”<\/p>\n Yet, Sankar acknowledged that even if America’s not thinking about how to scale AI in all these other industries like China<\/a>, it will happen naturally in the U.S. as the technology develops.<\/p>\n THE BIGGEST THREAT IN AMERICA’S RACE WITH CHINA ISN’T BEIJING, TECH EXECUTIVE WARNS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Shyam Sankar, chief technology officer of Palantir Technologies Inc., speaks during the Hill & Valley forum at the US Capitol in Washington, D.C., on April 30, 2025. (Al Drago \/ Bloomberg)<\/p>\n “The only threat to AI generating prosperity for America is suicide and homicide,” Sankar told Fox News Digital<\/a> at Palantir’s American Builder Summit in July. “I’m not really worried about what is China going to do per se. I’m more worried about bans on data centers and kind of unfettered and unwarranted fears curtailing our ability to actually generate wage growth for the American worker.”<\/p>\n “And so, I think really having a strong narrative that is told not by any companies, but actually by the people themselves, is important for us to get excited and motivated and get lined up behind that opportunity,” he added.<\/p>\n In February, Sankar wrote an op-ed<\/a> for Fox News Digital noting that in order to catch up to China, the U.S. would have to harness the tools at its disposal: the American worker and AI.<\/p>\n “AI development and deployment should prioritize American workers and American industry,” he wrote. “The goal is not efficiency in the abstract \u2014 it is American prosperity in the concrete.”<\/p>\n PALANTIR’S SHYAM SANKAR: AMERICANS ARE \u2018BEING LIED TO\u2019 ABOUT AI JOB DISPLACEMENT FEARS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Close-up of server hub employee in a soldier uniform typing on a laptop, running diagnostics on government systems. (iStock)<\/p>\n “China’s manufacturing productivity<\/a> grows at 6% per year. Ours grows at 0.4%. If we don’t invest in AI and automation, we’ll lose. The American worker with AI superpowers erodes China’s competitive advantage.”<\/p>\n Sankar believes the U.S. has made significant progress since the piece’s publication.<\/p>\n “Yeah, I think every day we’re making progress,” Sankar told Fox News Digital. “I always love the \u2014 I have a very small submarine parts manufacturer, and it used to take them two weeks to do their production plan. During that period of time, the line was down, they weren’t making any parts. So with AI, they’ve been able to take that down to less than an hour.\u00a0<\/p>\n![\"Shyam](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/shyam-sankar-palantir-cto-talks-iran-fox-news-002.jpg\")
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