Finally, Something Brings Americans Together
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Americans really, really, really hate AI. Especially young people, for whom this is just another plot by the old to ensure they can’t live the American Dream. From the University of Arizona:
A former Google CEO, Eric Schmidt, was met with students’ boos at a university commencement address in Arizona on Sunday when he raised the topic of artificial intelligence (AI) and its effects.
Schmidt – who led the tech giant for more than a decade, acquiring a multibillion-dollar fortune in the process – was speaking to as many as 10,000 graduating University of Arizona students when he addressed the impact of modern technology on society.
The topic struck a nerve of anxiety within the student body when he traced technology’s evolution, through the laptop – which he said had “democratized knowledge” and led to prosperity – to the smartphone, the internet and social media.
“We thought that we were adding stones to a cathedral of knowledge that humanity had been constructing for centuries, but the world we built turned out to be more complicated than we anticipated,” Schmidt said.
“The same tools that connect us also isolate us. The same platforms that gave everyone a voice – like you’re using now – degraded the public square,” he added, referring to the polarization within democracies.
Schmidt said that information technologies, including AI, had unsettled young people. “That was not the plan, but it happened,” he said.
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.
From the University of Central Florida:
The University of Central Florida’s 2026 graduating class booed as a real estate development executive spoke about how “the rise of artificial intelligence is the next Industrial Revolution” and about “living in a time of profound change”.
The crowd of students was so loud that Gloria Caulfield paused, turned away from the podium and threw her hands up in the air.
“Woop, what happened?” she asked, before letting out a nervous laugh: “OK, I struck a chord. May I finish?”
As the crowd calmed down, Caulfield proceeded. “Only a few years ago, AI was not a factor in our lives.” That seemed to cheer them up – and led to a raucous applause.
“We’ve got a bipolar topic here, I see,” Caulfield said, as she got back on track, for a third time: “AI capabilities are in the palm of our hands,” she said, before the crowd booed again. “Oh I love it, passion: let’s go,” she said playfully.
The capitalists, who love AI because they can lay off thousands of workers, are freaking out a little bit now. And honestly, if I were an AI hack, I would have a lot of security around me. I think these people are underestimating just how much people hate them.
Also, speaking as a history professor who has heard this shit about history being a useless major for 20 years now, is there any more actually useless major anymore than computer science? Young computer science grads are facing enormous headwinds since AI can do those jobs. But hey, at least training 19 year olds in jobs than won’t exist by the time they are 22 means that they have gained no other skills in a university system that exists to serve the capitalists every daily whim and need.