The CEO of one of Trump's favorite companies just made some telling remarks

The head of Peter Thiel’s Palantir Technologies outlined a dystopian vision of the future.

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Palantir is no ordinary company. It does billions of dollars’ worth of work for the federal government, especially the Defense, Health and Human Services, and Homeland Security departments, providing software that tracks data on everything from the spread of Ebola to tax evasion to immigration.

It was also founded by Peter Thiel, a billionaire who was a prominent early supporter of Trump’s and spoke at the 2016 Republican convention, and played a key role in the rise of Vice President JD Vance. The New York Times reports that several associates at Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency effort previously worked at Palantir and other companies funded by Thiel.

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But there’s an underlying ideology here that’s worth unpacking. Despite having a degree in philosophy and a Ph.D. in neoclassical social theory from a top German university, Karp doesn’t really see the value in a classic liberal arts education. He argued at Davos that AI “will destroy humanities jobs,” which he talks about as though it were a selling point and not an unfortunate side effect.

The future all of this suggests is one in which high school students train for factory jobs, no one goes to college or immigrates to the U.S. and we all trust black-box software run by major government contractors to determine whether society is being run properly.

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https://www.ms.now/opinion/alex-karp-palantir-trump-education