If that's really the case, wouldn't the job of CEO of Palantir be better done by AI? This guy ought to go pick some crops for several weeks and rethink his life.
this post was submitted on 04 Feb 2026
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“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
Guillotine? Guillotine.
Carpentry and blacksmithing.
Hmm, good point! Maybe it is time for trades with your hands to have a … small renaissance.
If robots doing all the work means people starve, you deserve to be peeled.
Of course he’s a narcissist POS he’s a billionaire it’s table stakes
But I appreciate him saying the quiet part out loud, compared to Microslop and the Alphallucinate company just begging us to hop on the wave that’s going to have us digging fields and slipping out livestock
Toss your clogs saboteurs, knowing that you’re not making fast food and cars more expensive, but saving the humanity of us all
And what’s Alex going to do? Surely he isn’t irreplaceable by post-singularity AGI.