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Graduates are booing pep talks on AI at college commencements

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> “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.

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

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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

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?

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?

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

Boooooooh

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

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.”

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".

>is bad for the environment, is bad for society

Can't it be those too?

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

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.

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

Oh! My bad!. Let give me give my best rosane rosanadanna (from old school SNL TV era) "never mind"

I don’t blame them for how they feel. In fact, I feel sorry for them. Covid took a few years from them, then AI comes along and invalidates their career choices. That’s a hard case.

Oh yeah I don’t blame them at all.

And to be clear that was sarcasm from my earlier comment.

Nah the kids grew up in the middle of “once in a lifetime” events and are now subject to a life where what’s considered a viable career changes every 2 years or so.

They’ve never known a stable world.

Of course. Multiple things can be true.

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

Most of them won’t be unemployed.

"Fuck you, got mine"

Tale as old as boomer

Actually, that’s a tale as old as humanity itself.

Most of the people I know worked pretty hard for what they have.

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