Alex Karp, CEO of Palantir, recorded a video about ICE for his employees

Palantir employees have He spent weeks asking Company leadership For answers about what the company works with Immigration and customs (ice). On Friday, Palantir CEO Alex Karp He finally appeared resigned – sort of.

In an email sent to all Palantir employees, Courtney Bowman, Palantir’s global director of privacy and civil liberties engineering, shared a roughly hour-long pre-recorded video conversation with Karp about Palantir’s involvement with ICE.

“Against the backdrop of recent events, internal conversations, and calls from many of you to better understand how executive leadership is grappling with questions central to Palantir’s place in the world today, I sat down with Dr. Karp earlier for a lengthy discussion,” Bowman wrote in the email, which was viewed by WIRED. “To be clear, our goal in this exchange was neither to cover every detail of every controversy adorning the company’s most lively Slack channels, nor to fully assuage every concern that each of you may harbor… Most important of all, Dr. Karp made clear his commitment to reinvigorating his direct engagement with the Hobbits and this discussion seeks to model the kind of rigorous dialogue that should be at the heart of Palantir’s precious culture.” (Palantir leadership sometimes refers to employees as “hobbits,” after a fictional name.) Lord of the Rings characters.)

However, the video did not answer specific questions about Palantir’s product capabilities, or how ICE was using Palantir’s products. Instead, the video said workers could sign nondisclosure agreements if they wanted more detailed information.

Palantir did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

During the first roughly 40 minutes of the conversation, Karp failed to answer questions about the company’s contracts with ICE and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) that had littered internal chats weeks earlier. Instead, Karp focused on Palantir’s role in building and maintaining Western power — a topic he frequently raises in public interviews and in his recent book, The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West.

At the end of the video, Karp turns his attention broadly to immigration enforcement, saying that Palantir will not have a policy that “varies depending on the president,” and that Democrats have also prioritized these issues under previous administrations. Karp specifically cited former President Barack Obama, who said the United States is both a “nation of immigrants” and a “nation of laws.” In a 2014 speech. Karp also argued that organizations planning to break the laws do not buy Palantir products, claiming that the products’ technical capabilities make it difficult to hide violations.

While Karp declined to go into further detail about the products Palantir provides to ICE, he did offer workers the ability to sign nondisclosure agreements in order to receive one-on-one briefings. At the end of the email linked to that conversation, Bowman said the video was just the beginning of the company becoming more prepared in its work with ICE. Bowman did not share what additional information workers could expect in the future, but he said Karp’s video was a “step forward, not a continuation” of Palantir leadership’s discussions about its work at ICE with employees.

The video came after Weeks of internal pressure from workers. Shortly after federal agents shot and killed Minneapolis nurse Alex Pretty last month, workers flocked to Palantir’s internal website to question the company’s role in enforcing the Trump administration’s immigration laws, how the products offered work alongside ICE’s goals, and whether the company should partner with the agency at all. The pre-recorded conversation with Karp offered little insight into their questions.

In internal Slack conversations Reviewed by WIRED in Januaryworkers complained about a lack of transparency about how the product many of them sell and manufacture enables ICE enforcement.