Palantir CEO Alex Karp says neurodivergent workers will thrive in the AI era. An autistic psychologist says he has a point
Source: Fortune ·
Daniel Wendler, the psychologist, warned against putting neurodivergent people on a pedestal.
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Palantir CEO Alex Karp once said neurodivergent people will succeed in the AI era. One psychologist who is also autistic thinks the billionaire has a point, but says that neurodivergent workers’ advantage might not be what people think. Karp, who is dyslexic, made his case about neurodivergent people earlier this year in an interview on the business podcast TBPN. “There are basically two ways to know you have a future,” Karp said of workers in the AI era. “One, you have some vocational training. Or two, you’re neurodivergent.” Karp has previously said his struggle with dyslexia was a “formative moment” that helped him learn to “think freely.” He has also credited dealing with dyslexia for his success cofounding Palantir and growing it into a massive software company worth roughly $470 billion. Karp has been at the helm for more than two decades, after cofounding it alongside Peter Thiel, Joe Lonsdale, Stephen Cohen, and Nathan Gettings in 2003. During the interview with TBPN, Karp…