Palantir CEO Alex Karp warned that AI could multiply his net worth twentyfold while the average worker might only see their paycheck double over the next decade, as the company's market valuation reaches roughly $322 billion. Karp, whose personal fortune stands at about $15 billion, said on the MDMeets podcast that AI will raise the standard of living of the average person, but "the people involved are likely to get 10, 100 times wealthier than they already are," describing a "complete decoupling of unimaginable wealth and normal wealth." He criticized the AI elite as "very oddly shaped IQ specimens that you probably wouldn’t want to have over for dinner" and called the overselling of AI "disconcerting." According to Oxfam, billionaire wealth surged more than 16% in 2025 to a record $18.3 trillion, with Elon Musk's fortune briefly crossing the trillion-dollar threshold earlier this year and now sitting at approximately $833 billion.