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Wondering what your career looks like in our increasingly uncertain, AI-powered future? According to Palantir CEO Alex Karp, it’s going to involve less of the comfortable office work to which most people aspire, a more old fashioned grunt work with your hands.
Speaking at the World Economic Forum yesterday, Karp insisted that the future of work is vocational — not just for those already in manufacturing and the skilled trades, but for the majority of humanity.
In the age of AI, Karp told attendees at a forum, a strong formal education in any of the humanities will soon spell certain doom.
“You went to an elite school, and you studied philosophy; hopefully you have some other skill,” he warned, adding that AI “will destroy humanities jobs.”
Karp, who himself holds humanities degrees from the elite liberal arts institutions of Haverford College and Stanford Law, will presumably be alright. With a net worth of $15.5 billion — well within the top 0.1 percent of global wealth owners — the Palantir CEO has enough money and power to live like a feudal lord (and that’s before AI even takes over.)
The rest of us, he indicates, will be stuck on the assembly line, building whatever the tech companies require.
“If you’re a vocational technician, or like, we’re building batteries for a battery company… now you’re very valuable, if not irreplaceable,” Karp insisted. “I mean, y’know, not to divert to my usual political screeds, but there will be more than enough jobs for the citizens of your nation, especially those with vocational training.”
Now, there’s nothing wrong with vocational work or manufacturing. The global economy runs on these jobs. But in a theoretical world so fundamentally transformed by AI that intellectual labor essentially ceases to exist, it’s telling that tech billionaires like Karp see the rest of humanity as their worker bees.
It seems that the AI revolution never seems to threaten those who stand to profit the most from it — just the 99.9 percent of us building their batteries.
I’m tired of these techbro cultists without any humanity being in power at all.
“Saying the quiet part out loud” moment, because they don’t feel like they need to be quiet. They’re untouchable.
TL;DR: Tech billionaires like Karp see the rest of humanity as their worker bees.
I studied poetry, painting, and music so that my sons could study mathematics and commerce, and their sons could work long hours on the assembly - without having ever studied anything - so that they can consume slop generated by AI that was pushed on everyone by people who studied commerce, created by people who studied mathematics, and trained on the works of those who studied poetry, painting, and music.
I don’t like where it’s going, and I dislike Palantir, but I also strongly disagree with calling manual work “peasant” labour. There’s nothing wrong with working with your hands.
There is everything wrong with having to work like a peasant because wealth hoarders want to hoard even more wealth
There’s nothing billionaire oligarchs fear more than people who are capable of thinking for themselves. Of course they want to destroy the humanities…
Yes. It’s this, exactly. They don’t hate art, they hate how art unites us. And they hate how poignantly art can express how utterly thoroughly we outnumber them.
Those peasant surgeons.
Yeah, they aspire to neo-feudalism, but that’s a political rather than technology position.
He is such a self-centered, megalomaniac cunt.
Nothing that cannot be solved by politically motivated violence.
we need more progressive taxing, ultra-rich people shouldn’t exist, let them be rich, just not ultra-rich.
Yes. It’s so dumb that even the ultra rich have let it get this far.
I don’t think Thompson got up every morning thinking, “It’ll be neat when my kids cannot admit in public that they grieve for me, because my stupid needless death will be such a balm to the public for all of the other stupid needless death I am causing daily.”
Everyone can be a winner while we turn this mess around.
That said, I would still pay $20.00 for a chance to piss on Thompson’s grave. He chose his path.
People are not hungry enough for any kind of radical change. Media and the narrative is controlled by the ultra rich. That’s why for “regular” people socialism is a bad thing.
No billionaires until poverty is eradicated globally. And maybe not even then.
Nobody should have more wealth or income than a doctor.
Seems fair.
Thievery is becoming a better profession by the day.
Beats working for fucking peanuts from the families buying our government.
Well, I hope this douchebag enjoys his eventual prison labour. He’s got the right attitude for it.
They say all this while simultaneously whining like a bunch of little crybabies about declining fertility rates. What the fuck sort of reaction are they expecting?
AI hioefully will be able to replace ultrarich CEOs soon too and cost us almost nothing.
Non-human, uncaring machines who amass and hoard wealth beyond human comprehension honestly doesn’t sound any different than what we have now.
yes sorry, i just meant to direct companies, not to amass and hoard :)
The machines are less likely to traffic minors for the purpose of sexual exploitation.
Thiels sock puppet is saying what the anti-christ wants him to say.
