- In the middle of the debate about the effects of AI on the workforceAlex Karp, CEO of Palantir, said the technology can have a general additive effect: “If we work very, very hard on it.” But he warned that the result could be “deep social upheavals” that many elites ignore if the industry is not possible. There are already signs that AI shrinks.
One of the greatest beneficiaries of the KI revolution warned that the technology could also create massive cracks in society – unless the industry is working hard to prevent it.
Alex Karp, CEO of the data mining software company Palantir, was Asked on CNBC On Thursday about the effects of AI on employment.
“Those of us in technology cannot have a sheet metal year for the average person, which that means,” he replied.
This comes because AI is increasingly involved in the daily tasks of employees and increases their productivity and efficiency. At the same time there are also signs of this AI shrinks the possibilities for young workers into entry -level jobs This traditionally thought stones for the introduction of careers.
In the meantime, Palantir was at the top of the use of AI at the company level. The company is known for its AI-powered platforms Working in defense and intelligence Sectors, but it was too Expansion in commercial space. Finally, it Partner with teletrackingA provider of operating platforms for hospitals and health systems.
On Thursday, Karp, the type of AI that Palantir does, said “netting the workforce in America”, but only if we “work very, very hard on it”.
He pointed out that it only because it may happens, that doesn’t mean will happen. The industry has to do it that way.
“We have to be, otherwise we have deep social upheavals that I think that many in our elite really just ignore it,” said Karp.
The warning is particularly remarkable by a guide in the AI field. But Karp has it too asked the tech sector to have major problems.
In one recent Atlantic Reimbursement Adapted from your book The technological republicKarp and Nicholas Zamiska, Palantir’s head of company matters and legal advisors of the CEO, blew up the Silicon Valley to concentrate on “trivial but solvable inconvenience” and give up a long history of cooperation with the government in order to approach more urgent national issues.
Others in the AI area have recently offered bad predictions about AI and the workforce. Last month, the Anthropic CEO Dario AMOodei says AI could wipe out about 50% of all employees at the entry lawyer.
In Interview with AxiosHe said that shift could lead to unemployment to 10% and 20%. The most recent job report on Friday put the price to 4.2%.
“Most of them are not aware that this will happen,” said Amodei. “It sounds crazy and people just don’t believe it … We as the producer of this technology have a duty and an obligation to be honest what is coming.”
And Openai CEO Sam Altman said that last week AI agents are like internsPredict that next year you can “help us discover new knowledge or to find out solutions for business problems that are very not trivial”.
In the meantime, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said At the Milken Institute’s global conference last month that employees do not lose their work through AI, they lose them to “someone who uses AI”.
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