Maga’s sinister obsession with IQ is leading us towards an inhuman future | Quinn Slobodian

Donald Trump and his Silicon Valley partners share an obsession with IQ.

If their vision for our economic future is realised, IQ in the sense that they value will lose its meaning.

IQ fetishism had a history in the valley; one of the pioneers of the need to take eugenic measures to increase IQ was William Shockley .

The Maga coalition has bet the future of the US economy on breakthrough developments in artificial intelligence.

To date, generative AI is primarily a means of automating away many of the very white-collar jobs that had previously been the heart of the knowledge economy.

If those jobs are whittled down to a nub, then on its own terms, the point of caring about IQ vanishes as well.