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Emma Burleigh

Palantir CEO Alex Karp says this type of prestigious college grad is doomed. People with expert knowledge will ‘make a lot more money'

Palantir CEO Alex Karp (Credit: Roy Rochlin / Contributor / Getty Images)

Gen Z is witnessing shrinking job openings and AI agents snatch up roles in the workplace—crushing their American Dream of attending college and landing a six-figure job. Palantir CEO Alex Karp, an outspoken critic of the higher education system, just revealed the one type of degree-holder who is doomed in the age of AI. 

“If you are the kind of person that would’ve gone to Yale, classically high IQ, and you have generalized knowledge but it’s not specific, you’re effed,” Karp recently said in an interview with Axios. “There’s some schools you maybe should go to, otherwise, go to the cheapest school and come to Palantir—or just come here.”

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