#夏日创作营 Palantir CEO predicts: While widening wealth inequality, AI may multiply his wealth by 20 times. According to BlockBeats, on July 20, Palantir CEO Alex Karp predicted that artificial intelligence might expand his personal wealth by about 20 times, bringing his net worth close to $300 billion, while concentrating the gains in wealth among a small number of technology and capital owners. Karp’s current net worth is about $15 billion. He said that although AI will improve ordinary people’s standard of living, middle-class incomes may double within the next decade—for example, from $70k per year to $140k per year—but this pales in comparison with the billions of dollars in wealth gains generated by top-tier AI. Karp said in an interview with the MDMeets podcast: “Wealth and ordinary wealth could become completely decoupled,” highlighting social concerns sparked by AI-driven wealth concentration.