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Fortune
Jason Ma

Peter Thiel warned AI is coming for 'math people before word people.' Banks have already said smaller headcounts are possible

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The latest string of layoff announcements has stoked fears of an AI-powered jobs apocalypse, though the sectors seeing big losses echo a previous warning from tech billionaire Peter Thiel.

“It seems much worse for the math people than the word people,” he said in a recently resurfaced clip from a 2024 interview.

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