“There are basically two ways to know you have a future,” the 58-year-old billionaire Alex Karp said on TBPN earlier this month. “One, you have some vocational training. Or two, you’re neurodivergent.” More broadly, neurodivergence can include conditions such as ADHD.
For Karp, that cognitive difference can be an advantage in an AI-driven world—less because of the diagnosis itself and more because of the mindset it can foster. Success, he argued, will favor people who think differently and take risks, or in his words, be “more of an artist, look at things from a different direction, be able to build something unique.”
“Neurodivergent individuals will play a disproportionate role in shaping the future of America and the West,” the job posting stated. “They see past performative ideologies and perceive beauty in the world that still exists—which technology and art can expose.”
Fortune Magazine: Palantir’s billionaire CEO says only two kinds of people will succeed in the AI era: trade workers — ‘or you’re neurodivergent’
