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Graduates are booing pep talks on AI at college commencements
- rjbwork 6mo agoCompanies 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 6mo agoMore: 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?
- steelkilt 6mo agoWe 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.”
- JohnFen 6mo agoI 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 6mo ago>is bad for the environment, is bad for society Can't it be those too?
- ofjcihen 6mo agoNo way, it’s definitely 100% because college kids are entitled or something.
- scrubs 6mo agoEntitled? 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 6mo agoI think the comment you are responding to meant that sarcastically.
- steelkilt 6mo agoI 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.
- ofjcihen 6mo agoOh 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.
- steelkilt 6mo agoOf course. Multiple things can be true.
- drawfloat 6mo agoThey probably don’t like it because the AI industry has spent years saying it wants to make them all unemployed.
- steelkilt 6mo agoMost of them won’t be unemployed.
- addycb 6mo ago"Fuck you, got mine"
- danny_codes 6mo agoTale as old as boomer
- steelkilt 6mo agoActually, that’s a tale as old as humanity itself.
- steelkilt 6mo agoMost of the people I know worked pretty hard for what they have.
- nokeya 6mo agoHTTP error 451 for accessing this site outside of US, meh.
- pixel_popping 6mo agoBoooooooh
- nitwit005 6mo 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 6mo agoI mean they got Schmidt.. I think they failed at conception
- ChrisArchitect 6mo ago[dupe] The American Rebellion Against AI Is Gaining Steam https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48188310 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48188310 Eric Schmidt booed at University of Arizona after praising AI https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48172419 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 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48096674 Multiple commencement speakers booed for AI comments during graduation speeches https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48177107 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48177107 An AI Hate Wave Is Here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48173318 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48173318
- 9p 6mo agoout of touch 1%er unc fails the read on normal people social cues, tomatoes inbound. where have i seen this before?