Axios’ Dan Primack told Chamath Palihapitiya he wasn’t afraid for his own career, but he worried about his 15-year-old daughter’s generation and its path to stable employment. The billionaire investor answered with a question of his own: “Are you saying that you think she’s just going to be unemployed and a ward of the state?”
The response was an over-the-top way of rejecting the premise. Palihapitiya said the AI job apocalypse may make for an “incredible headline,” but he argued the case is not rooted in “patterns of the past.” He also told Primack, “I think it’s great to spark a debate.” Both halves belong in the record: he engaged with the question and then said the history does not support it.
