Sam Berry

Sam Berry serves as Chief Information Officer at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, where he leads technology strategy, digital transformation, cloud infrastructure, modernization of legacy systems, and data-driven systems serving agriculture and USDA programs.

Enterprise AI’s Constraint Is Judgment, Not Token Consumption

At TBPN’s AIPCon 10 broadcast, Palantir chief executive Alex Karp argued that enterprise AI’s central problem is no longer model capability but organizational judgment: companies are consuming tokens, dashboards and AI-generated artifacts without tying them to decisions that change operations. AIG’s Peter Zaffino, Palantir’s Chad Wahlquist and USDA’s Sam Berry extended the same case from insurance, deployment architecture and government data systems, describing AI as valuable only when embedded in workflows, data structures and feedback loops that reflect how institutions actually work.

TBPNJun 4, 202626 min read