"Palantir CEO Alex Karp has an inimitable aptitude for sniffing out the politically sensitive topic about which, by his own admission, he should not be speaking, but which will also win him the most attention. Last year, it was the idea of innate western superiority and his belief that his company's software product was "the only reason why someone's not goose-stepping between me and you" on the streets of Europe."
"Flying into Davos for the World Economic Forum - or perhaps appearing in a puff of red smoke from under a ghoulish cloak - Karp responded to probing about the impact of AI on the jobs market. "I do think these trends [in AI] really do make it hard to imagine why we should have large-scale immigration unless you have a very specialized skill," he said."
AI-driven automation could reduce demand for large-scale immigration unless migrants possess highly specialized skills. Many immigrants currently fill roles in health, construction, and service industries that western nations find hard to staff. Attention focused on white-collar employment, with expectations that AI will eliminate or shrink many professional roles. Organizations may need new methods for testing aptitude and redeploying workers into different functions. In the United States, roughly 4.7 million non-US-born workers are employed in professional and business services, underscoring potential labor-market and immigration-policy implications of AI-driven change.
Read at Theregister
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]