Absolutely fantastic news for the GOP. The CEO of Palantir said that artificial intelligence—the technology billionaires keep shoving down our throats even though no one’s asked for it—is more powerful than anyone even understands and has the ability to take away economic and political power from “highly educated, often female voters, who vote mostly Democrat” while giving more power to working-class men. Sick!
On Thursday, Palantir CEO Alex Karp spoke with CNBC and, between saying “disrupt” and “disruption” no less than 2,359 times, declared that AI will—drum roll—disrupt society by ripping it to shreds and potentially allowing anyone (or any political party) interested in sidelining smart women who vote Democrat to do exactly that. Every single day, I wake up more and more grateful that all these awesome rich men are in charge of everything.
“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. “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 understand that, as a brilliant woman who votes Democrat because I believe in women’s bodily autonomy and reject the idea that drag queens are child-hunting demons (among other things), I’m probably not the person these titans of industry are trying to come to an agreement with, but still, I’d love to add my two cents: What I think we should do with this technology is…destroy it.
In past interviews, Karp has said that smart people who go to college and major in the liberal arts are going to get fucked by the AI revolution. But mostly, this interview sounded like a direct plea to Trump to pretty please give Palantir even more billion-dollar government contracts—on top of the billion-dollar contracts they already have that are helping the administration wage war and (probably) surveil Americans—and Palantir will help ensure the defeat of the GOP’s biggest fear: women with a brain.
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