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.”
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.
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.
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.
Strange really. Almost as if he isnt being sincere and making the world better for other people isnt his true intention.
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.
It’s a management job.
Office work implies secretary and data processing. Phone service.
Yes it’s true doctors work in offices but we don’t say being a doctor is “office work”. We say they work in a clinic or hospital.
Engineers work at firms
Lawyers work at firms
Researchers work in labs/, universities or R&D.
The term “office work” is typically used for mid to low wage work done by people with limited college or university degrees. Like associates or bachelors at most.
I’m sure the guy saying it believes that’s the only higher up jobs that women have.
“Office workers”. Secretaries.
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.
Propaganda here goes to 11.
Be that as it may, voting democrat doesn’t change it, democrats are captured by the oligarchy, since before most of us were born. Until we fight under credible leadership we are doomed to fail.
Better to not vote and let the radical fascists take over, right? I’m sure the exact same things would have happened exactly the same way under a Harris presidency.
How do you know how anyone voted? What we do know is that the status quo was going to lose and we went with it anyway. So until one with such an opinion crawls out of the ass of the billionaires and joins us in the sunshine, maybe they should stop parroting the shit noises they hear in there.
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.
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.”
Omg I’m so shocked by this Shocking Confession 😮
