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"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.”
This sounds like a direct, long-term pitch to the GOP from a CEO whose tech
firm already has numerous government contracts and is deeply embedded in the
Pentagon. Karp’s message is loud and clear: My technology will take political
capital away from one of your greatest enemies—liberal women with degrees—and
give one of your favorite demographics to patronize—working-class men—more
political power to transfer to you. He’s aligning his technology with both GOP
political strategy and the larger male-centered culture war that the right has
been waging for the better part of a decade now. And how exactly would his
technology only hurt Democrat women?"
Via Susan ****
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
