# Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar on AI diffusion, safety, and the forward-deployed engineer

> Original title: An Interview with Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar About the AI Religious War

- Source: Stratechery
- Published: 2026-10-29T10:00:00.000Z
- Bad Influence: https://badinfluence.news/items/wukmw4cnchczxwcx15qo3zhmk
- Original: https://stratechery.com/2026/an-interview-with-palantir-cto-shyam-sankar-about-the-ai-religious-war/

## Summary

Stratechery interviews Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar about why AI adoption depends on diffusion into workflows rather than model capability alone. Sankar argues that companies should build systems around AI, keep proprietary operational data, and treat forward-deployed engineering as a product strategy.