Palantir CEO Alex Karp thinks his AI technology will lessen the power of “highly educated, often female voters, who vote mostly Democrat” while increasing the power of working-class men.
“This technology disrupts humanities-trained—largely Democratic—voters, and makes their economic power less. And increases the economic power of vocationally trained, working-class, often male, working-class voters,” Karp said in a CNBC interview Thursday. “And so these disruptions are gonna disrupt every aspect of our society. And to make this work, we have to come to an agreement of what it is we’re going to do with the technology; how are we gonna explain to people who are likely gonna have less good, and less interesting jobs.”
I’m glad it’s getting out there, but this is the least shocking thing I’ve seen in a few days.
Rich assholes: “Let’s speedrun making this world into even more of a dystopian shithole.”
Also rich assholes: “Why aren’t people reproducing anymore?”
He’s not wrong. Women dominated fields are going to be some of the first to go when AI starts taking over those jobs.
And DEI is not going to be around to save you
I think you mean, men are not going to help when you get kicked out of a job you deserve as much as the next hard working person.
Hard work alone doesn’t get women to the top. DEI is necessary to combat sexism.
While his point probably sounds logical to a person who only wants to hear things that confirm their feelings, I think it is missing an incredibly important point. Yes, AI will probably not be used to replace plumbers, car mechanics, carpenters, etc. And yes, AI will mostly be used to TRY to replace people in office jobs. But assuming his point is true that all those office people lose their jobs (ignoring the whole sexist part of female voters), then who is going to be able to pay wages to those plumbers and mechanics? Trades people in the US are making really good money right now, and that’s because office workers in the US are making really good money right now compared to the rest of the world.
It’s almost like a rising tide lifts all boats and that helping those around you is better than helping a billionaire who is siphoning up the tidal water to pay for data center cooling.
To add to that, many office workers that lose their career will then go get a plumbing license. There will be fewer paying clients AND more plumbers to choose from. Wages will absolutely go down for everyone if there are fewer careers available.
It’s the classic case of capitalists not understabding where their profits come from. If enough of us get laid off, we’ll remind them. Increasing exploitation only works to a point.
High educated women aren’t office workers though.
So being a CEO of a tech company isn’t an office job? Being a software engineer writing code is not an office job? Being a graphic designer at a magazine isn’t an office job?
Where do you think those women work? Yeah, some become doctors or work in science labs, but most people with college degrees work in an office.
Agreed with a lot of this, but
Yes, AI will probably not be used to replace plumbers, car mechanics, carpenters, etc.
Lots of those people did get replaced already by technology, it was just called industrialization and assembly lines. What’s left now is artisan wood working and emergency repair work for plumbers and mechanics, and you can’t employ all of America’s blue collar workers with luxury stuff and emergencies.
Another thing that doesn’t get mentioned here - if AI and self driving cars work out like they want them to, goodbye delivery work and long haul trucking, which actually is a ton of blue collar jobs. Also, self checkout machines and chatbots are eating customer service jobs that less educated workers might otherwise be doing.
The biggest portion of blue collar jobs that will be tough to automate will be everything associated with construction just because they’re moving to different sites and jobs faster than it would take to get bots well trained to do that work, but if unemployment jumps and new home sales even look like they might slow down those jobs disappear fast.
My point is - if technology and labor rights get to the point the office workers are starting to feel the bite, guaranteed blue collar workers are all teeth marks by that point. Not that I would expect a CEO to talk honestly about that.
? Trades people in the US are making really good money right now, and that’s because
Look up the average age of plumbers, electricians, and welders. What happens when a body of knowledge living in the collective heads of an aging population gets removed from the labor pool faster than we can get younger folks interested in learning that information?
Wages are high right now, in part, because finding a highly experienced, capable tradesman is constrained by the available supply in a given geographic region.
So…this guy is blue collar? And doesn’t have an education?
Why is it always these types of assholes that hate that women are educated, by the way?
Because the target demographic of their propaganda is aggrieved men that lack the education to smell fascism for what it is.
I forget that there are Americans so dumb that the working-class votes Republican.
This is like a woman voting Les Republicains or a healthcare worker voting Tories. Just voting to be fucked.
It doesn’t matter who you vote in the US, the minimum wage hasn’t changed for decades. I guess that’s why barely anybody votes anyway
Yeah, pushing the “both sides are just as bad” bullshit is designed to do exactly that when anyone with brains can clearly see that Republicans are clearly more pointedly anti-working class and more pro-billionaire class than Democrats. Could the Democrats be better? Of course, but voting by abscension because the party that most closely represents you isn’t perfect is what gets you into fascism. The two party system sucks, but we have to work within it until we can change it and this “both sides bad” stuff is fucking poison. Run on a pro-labor platform if you want to make actual change.
I don’t know I pretty much say both sides are bad all year and then I walked to the voting booth and vote for the Democrats because they are not as bad. A two party system deprives you of actual choice. The parties have become so entrenched and top-heavy they do not function democratically anymore. They don’t even pretend to function democratically anymore… both sides are equally bad because they deprive you of a better option. When faced with only two options then yes one of them is clearly less evil…
I agree. Also, the Israel shit is old and has been going on for decades and decades. We all just normalized getting fucked by Israel. Democrats suck a lot. So does the red.
I don’t care, I’m not going to play a rigged game. Let the idiots elect their fascist and let them suffer the consequences.
Propaganda here goes to 11.
Bro just wants to divide and conquer the lower and middle class
This guy is a cokehead, 100%.
humanities-trained
Code for university educated, which include 1 or 2 generalist humanities classes, and an awareness that fascism = bad. All of the other University classes, no matter the topic, are within the constraints that human destruction is a bad thing. The university program is supposed to motivate the student to help humanity.
vocationally trained
Code for the stupid. While short term threats to blue colar work don’t seem obvious, US has been losing manufacturing jobs all year long, and future of manufacturing, to be provided by tech bros or China, is much less labour intensive.
Advice for the stupid… Don’t assume Zionazi tech bro loves you and wants anything other than more war on Iran and everyone else after, with him getting paid for it, and paid to surveil dissenters to Zionazi supremacy.
And so these disruptions are gonna disrupt every aspect of our society. And to make this work, we have to come to an agreement of what it is we’re going to do with the technology; how are we gonna explain to people who are likely gonna have less good, and less interesting jobs.”
“This shit does whatever you need to pretend it does in order for you to support it.”
