Palantir CEO Alex Karp says humanities jobs are doomed in the age of AI: 'Hopefully you have some other skill' [Business Insider]
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This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account? Log in Alex Karp, the CEO and cofounder of Palantir, doesn't have a technical education. But the philosophy grad said his humanities background will be in low demand as AI develops. Other executives think that human-centric skills are becoming more important. Alex Karp, the billionaire co-founder and CEO of the AI defense technology company Palantir, had a top humanities-based education. Karp graduated from Haverford College, an elite liberal arts college in Pennsylvania, with a degree in philosophy. He then attended Stanford Law School and later earned a Ph.D. in neoclassical social theory at a top German university. "A very, very strong education," Karp said during a panel at the World Economic Forum on Tuesday. In the age of AI, that kind of academic trajectory will doom you, Karp told Larry Fink, the CEO of BlackRock, who was leading the
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