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    Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt booed after AI remarks at Arizona commencement

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    3. randobis on

      Did he say something specifically that triggered boos or was it just his presence in general? The article isn’t clear and the quotes they attribute to him are pretty benign.

    6. coconutpiecrust on

      Great. Love to see it. 

      He should deliver his commencement speech to AI. Why is he delivering it to other human beings? He a Luddite or something? 

    9. NoScallion2856 on

      ​It is hilarious how these tech billionaires think they can stand in front of a crowd of graduates and lecture them about AI. If he loves it that much, he should just give his speech to a chatbot instead of talking to actual human beings. Turns out people are sick of hearing the same corporate hype.

    10. ConfidentMuscle3249 on

      “You see, no matter what happens I should be ok because of my impenetrable wealth……wait….why are you booing me…”

    14. Knife_Chase on

      Why is it that I know with confidence that whenever I click a link to a news site I will get bombarded with ads and then when I scroll over the entire page there is nowhere to watch the video that the article is about?

    15. Fair-Hair2080 on

      What an idiot. He thought going to a university and speaking to college students about AI replacing jobs would be applauded?

    19. PigeonsOnYourBalcony on

      Singing the praises of something that’s destroying the job market to a room full of people all sending out resumes is wild. This is how you radicalize people and I hope it works.

    20. supified on

      What I hate is that these people (probably purposefully) misconstrued what it is that I think people hate. AI is a theft from the rich. The people in fields working with AI are working harder than ever, longer than ever and being paid less to do it. AI has only been another way to do wage theft and that’s not even talking about the other costs it incurs.

    22. powerback_us on

      What’s crazy to me is I don’t even think it’s the AI itself that is the target of the booing. It’s the obvious, hardly-guarded fact that people like Schmidt will take all of the benefits of the “revolution” for themselves.

      The only reason I can imagine of that he would think graduating students would respond positively to his speech is that young people (including me; Millennial here 👋 lol) for the past two to three decades have continuously eaten this shit up.

      Something broke though between COVID and ChatGPT and I guess they still haven’t updated their firmware?

    25. Normalredditaccount0 on

      I’m sure the new grads are happy to hear about something destroying the job market

    26. otherwisepandemonium on

      My heart was warmed when I saw the video of him being booed. You could tell it was getting to him, and his patience was starting to wear thin as he started turning red.

      He’s also an alleged rapist.

    27. chenjeru on

      It’s appropriate to boo Eric Schmidt regardless of what AI-related comments he makes.

    28. Disused_Yeti on

      “my buddies and i are making life harder for you in exchange for accumulating vast wealth. good luck, you’ll need it”

    29. guinnessmonkey on

      Saved you a click. Also, who thinks a real estate exec is inspiring?

      “Shouting and jeers against Schmidt’s talk started when he acknowledged fears that AI threatened to deprive people now entering the workforce of a future.

      “I know what many of you are feeling about that,” Schmidt said. “I can hear you. There is a fear.

      “There is a fear in your generation that the future has already been written, that the machines are coming, that the jobs are evaporating, that the climate is breaking, that politics are fractured, and that you are inheriting a mess that you did not create.”

      He acknowledged that their fears are “rational” and encouraged them to adapt and to shape how it will be used in the future – rather than for that shape them.

      “The question is not whether AI will shape the world. It will,” Schmidt said. “The question is whether you will have shaped artificial intelligence.”

      The student body’s response to Schmidt’s remarks comes days after students graduating from the University of Central Florida booed Gloria Caulfield, a real estate executive, when she spoke of “the rise of artificial intelligence is the next Industrial Revolution” – and about “living in a time of profound change”.”

    31. slappingdragon on

      He’s not boo’d enough. Kind of typical. Become so rich and isolated from the real world problems he doesn’t to care because nothing will make his life hard.

      When you become so rich and live in your own world and forget what real people have to deal with and make no effort to know and then shoot your mouth off don’t expect people to love you for it.

    33. wherebdbooty on

      He was the money-fuck of the whole og Google, right? Before him, it was just nerds wanting to make something cool, right?

    34. RightSpread2903 on

      Maybe these schools should do better than a CEO who isn’t even an alumnus for commencement.

    36. Uncle-Cake on

      So let me get this straight… he raised concerns about AI, and they booed him?

    37. HostileCrabPeople on

      These people really are completely disconnected from the reality that the majority live in. Fucking clueless

    39. macemillianwinduarte on

      These kids gave AI a usecase by using it to cheat on their schoolwork, but now they hate it because they think it will erase their jobs. Kinda a bed they made for themselves, no?

    40. Gorf_the_Magnificent on

      Boo AI out of existence, and maybe all the old jobs will come back.