Can AI advance without neurodivergent talent?

Earlier this year, Alex Karp, CEO of software company Palantir, stated that there are two paths to a successful future in the age of AI: vocational training or being neurodivergent. As co-president and CTO of Understood.org, a prominent nonprofit supporting millions of neurodivergent people in the US, I get the idea. It makes sense to consider divergent thinking as an advantage over the real concern that