Graduates are booing pep talks on AI at college commencements

(boston25news.com)

30 points | by 1vuio0pswjnm7 14 hours ago ago

18 comments

  • nitwit005 12 hours ago ago

    > “It will touch every profession, every classroom, every hospital, every laboratory, every person and every relationship you have,” Schmidt said, as booing began to build in the audience.

    This is being forced to listen to a former CEO talk about how amazing the products being built at the company he used to work at are. I'd have booed too.

    • danny_codes 2 hours ago ago

      I mean they got Schmidt.. I think they failed at conception

  • ChrisArchitect 11 hours ago ago

    [dupe]

    The American Rebellion Against AI Is Gaining Steam

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48188310

    Eric Schmidt booed at University of Arizona after praising AI

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48172419

    Students boo commencement speaker after she calls AI next industrial revolution

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48096674

    Multiple commencement speakers booed for AI comments during graduation speeches

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48177107

    An AI Hate Wave Is Here

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48173318

  • rjbwork 13 hours ago ago

    Companies have been gleefully touting that AI is going to put everyone out of work for years now, with all gains going to the owner class.

    What did they expect?

    • AnimalMuppet 12 hours ago ago

      More: For years, universities have been presented as the answer for getting a good job. So now, at a university, to be touting AI... yeah, what did they expect?

  • 9p 10 hours ago ago

    out of touch 1%er unc fails the read on normal people social cues, tomatoes inbound. where have i seen this before?

  • nokeya 12 hours ago ago

    HTTP error 451 for accessing this site outside of US, meh.

  • steelkilt 13 hours ago ago

    We all have self-constructed identities. When threat of deconstruction presents itself, we react. E.g. my college degree isn’t worth what I thought it was, therefore I’m not the person I thought I was, therefore AI is evil, doesn’t work right, is bad for the environment, is bad for society, et. al.

    “This thing makes me feel less special, therefore I don’t like it.”

    • drawfloat 12 hours ago ago

      They probably don’t like it because the AI industry has spent years saying it wants to make them all unemployed.

    • JohnFen 13 hours ago ago

      I honestly don't think this is a large factor. I think a larger factor for the pushback is "this tech looks like it's going to make my life harder and more unpleasant".

    • mulr00ney 12 hours ago ago

      >is bad for the environment, is bad for society

      Can't it be those too?

      • ofjcihen 12 hours ago ago

        No way, it’s definitely 100% because college kids are entitled or something.

        • scrubs 6 hours ago ago

          Entitled? Or something?

          Reactionary. At worst young kids are lazy (in selected cases only) and nieve about how work works.

          Entitlement comes from mental disorder or growing up in affluence like much of the upper 5%.

          Moreover, kids from middle to lower income brackets i think work harder, are more resilient, and take their education more seriously than those that just fall in Harvard. The underlying difference? Consequences in the real world. When you always land on your feet or feel untouchable entitlement is 6 months away to a lifetime of clueless.

          • DeltaCoast 5 hours ago ago

            I think the comment you are responding to meant that sarcastically.

    • addycb 11 hours ago ago

      "Fuck you, got mine"