GoKawiilPalantir CEO Alex Karp called for "reasonable guidelines" on artificial intelligence regulation as tech and policy leaders deliberate over the technology.
"You have to find a way to set reasonable guidelines that are enforced, but you can't do it," he told CNBC's "Squawk on the Street" on Thursday. "The first line of defense is you're liable for your own actions."
Karp also argued for nationalizing AI labs and civil and criminal liability for those building technology capable of upending the world
"These businesses have to be nationalized because if you don't nationalize it every single one of my clients is going to sue," he said.
The tech executive's comments come as policymakers and tech leaders debate how to regulate sophisticated AI models after researchers warned of the technology's dire risks to humanity. Anthropic 's Dario Amodei chimed in over the weekend, calling for a slowdown in the frontier.
As calls for AI regulation pairs unlikely rivals Amodei, OpenAI's Sam Altman and SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk, President Donald Trump has lashed out, calling AI a "hoax" in several social media posts over the last few days.