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.
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supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz · 41 pts · 182d
Can we please all agree this is fascism by another name?
betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world · 30 pts · 182d
Nice thing about being a peasant is the easy access to pitchforks and torches.
The rest is pretty shit though.
theacharnian@lemmy.ca · 24 pts · 182d
This is how you get guillotines buddy. Like this is precisely how you get guillotines. Not to mention:
Which did nothing for him, if he thinks that AI can do philosophy.
zakobjoa@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 182d
Siblings, collect lumber and a large, rectangular blade.
wewbull@feddit.uk · 6 pts · 182d
Trapezoid...cuts better!
SuiXi3D@fedia.io · 13 pts · 182d
thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 12 pts · 182d
he wants uneducated people
lack of education benefits right wing politics
jontree255@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 182d
This guy really wants to be at the front of the line for the guillotine.
MiDaBa@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 182d
Don't argue with him, just give him his fast pass
TrojanRoomCoffeePot@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 182d
*work with your hands in Minecraft, to rip out his intestines because of a conspiracy to throw humanity into a 21st century techno-feudalism.
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 182d
Feed him to a shiver in Vintage Story
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 3 pts · 182d
Call this man a hand-butt because he's a Monstrosity of Sin.
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 182d
Quit thinking about the good of humanity and start shovelling coal for the economy!
duckCityComplex@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 182d
Dear Mr. Karp, please fall off a cliff
richardisaguy@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 182d
This man is clearly a fucking idiot
CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de · 5 pts · 182d
On one hand, there’s a lot of people whose jobs can actually be replaced by AI. A lot of office work is just middle managers justifying their existence with headcount that just move paper around desks. There’s a lot of humanities graduates - and science, and engineering, and whatever - that are in bullshit jobs. If I could earn a good living doing trades, I’d switch careers. Too old, and too embedded, and I’m not an entrepreneur. And I work in an engineering/tech space that actually accomplishes stuff.
But AI replacing philosophy, absolutely the hell not. I can’t think of an academic position that can truly be replaced by AI.
slacktoid@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 181d
This is why we need to fund the arts, this clown would have become just a famous bad writer or something and living his life, instead we have to deal with this. His insecurity and anger projected at anyone with a humanities degree.
I say this as a stem-dork
(But also in general let's fund the arts!)
jaredwhite@humansare.social · 3 pts · 182d
Sounds like Ebenezer Scrooge was simply a man ahead of his time.
To the workhouses or the prisons for you!
gdog05@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 181d
On one hand, we can just take his money with or without violent means.... On the other hand, we have corporate servitude in the mines.
RockBottom@feddit.org · 1 pts · 174d
Can I see that communism again?