The Anti-Intellectualism of the Silicon Valley Elite (thenation.com) AI

The article argues that Silicon Valley’s top figures—citing figures like Peter Thiel and Marc Andreessen—promote an anti-intellectual worldview that treats deep learning as unnecessary, even while profiting from it. It links this stance to attacks on higher education and the humanities, skepticism toward inquiry that could challenge the managerial class, and a broader desire for insulation from accountability. The piece also criticizes how AI and tech “shortcuts” can be used to replace thinking, while the same elite dismisses the people and disciplines that make that knowledge possible.