In the age of AI, Karp told attendees at a forum, a strong formal education in any of the humanities will soon spell certain doom.
Can we please all agree this is fascism by another name?
this post was submitted on 04 Feb 2026
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Nice thing about being a peasant is the easy access to pitchforks and torches.
The rest is pretty shit though.
This is how you get guillotines buddy. Like this is precisely how you get guillotines. Not to mention:
Karp, who himself holds humanities degrees
Which did nothing for him, if he thinks that AI can do philosophy.
Siblings, collect lumber and a large, rectangular blade.
Trapezoid...cuts better!
he wants uneducated people
lack of education benefits right wing politics
This guy really wants to be at the front of the line for the guillotine.
Don't argue with him, just give him his fast pass
*work with your hands in Minecraft, to rip out his intestines because of a conspiracy to throw humanity into a 21st century techno-feudalism.
Quit thinking about the good of humanity and start shovelling coal for the economy!
Dear Mr. Karp, please fall off a cliff
This man is clearly a fucking idiot
On one hand, there’s a lot of people whose jobs can actually be replaced by AI. A lot of office work is just middle managers justifying their existence with headcount that just move paper around desks. There’s a lot of humanities graduates - and science, and engineering, and whatever - that are in bullshit jobs. If I could earn a good living doing trades, I’d switch careers. Too old, and too embedded, and I’m not an entrepreneur. And I work in an engineering/tech space that actually accomplishes stuff.
But AI replacing philosophy, absolutely the hell not. I can’t think of an academic position that can truly be replaced by AI.
Sounds like Ebenezer Scrooge was simply a man ahead of his time.
To the workhouses or the prisons for you!
This is why we need to fund the arts, this clown would have become just a famous bad writer or something and living his life, instead we have to deal with this. His insecurity and anger projected at anyone with a humanities degree.
I say this as a stem-dork
(But also in general let's fund the arts!)
On one hand, we can just take his money with or without violent means.... On the other hand, we have corporate servitude in the mines.
Can I see that communism again?