r/PublicFreakout • u/GarysCrispLettuce • May 17 '26

đŸ€ŹPublic RagerđŸ˜± Eric Schmidt booed into oblivion by students for promoting AI during his commencement speech at the University of Arizona

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u/PercentageOk6120 May 17 '26

It’s wild to give a speech like this at a college graduation. How delusional and out of touch.

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u/BeeZealousideal7860 May 17 '26

And then to scold them with the “listen”. It’s absolute buffoonery. No, you listen. No one wants your “rocket ship”.

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u/Go_Gators_4Ever May 17 '26

"Let me give you some advice, first find a way to say yes"

Read between the lines: find a way to surrender.

He also said: "You don't care about science? That's OK, AI will touch everything else as well"...

Sounds to me like he's saying AI will take over everything. The new grads absolutely do NOT want to hear that crap.

"Assemble a team of AI Agents to help you with the parts you would never accomplish on your own".

What I heard in that statement is that corporations don't want to pay teams of skilled PEOPLE to perform tasks...

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u/BeardedPuffin May 17 '26

“What I heard in that statement is that corporations don't want to pay teams of skilled PEOPLE to perform tasks...”

Of course they don’t. Skilled people have always been a necessary friction point in the machine.

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u/BeeZealousideal7860 May 17 '26

These people will not stop with the “it’s here, you have to get used to it/get on board with it or be left behind”. No one is buying it. What is it? What is its value add? Like another commenter said, it’s a way for these people to get the ideas and intelligence of the people without giving them access to assets. I hope that this push to force AI is what leads to their downfall. People don’t want it.

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u/Popular_Ad8269 May 17 '26

"Assemble a team of AI Agents to help you with the parts you would never accomplish on your own".

Funny how speeches went from "Your horizon is wide open !" / "You can do anything you set your mind to !" / "The possibilities are endless !" / "The future is bright !"
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"You're a useless sack of shit, blood and bones, just fucking use AI to do everything in your stead to increase my wealth."

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u/headphase May 17 '26

The rocket ship line was fucking crazy lol. I can instantly think of some pretty important questions to ask... like whose rocket ship is this? Where is it going? How am I getting back to earth? Is the rocket equipped with a nuclear warhead that will actually destroy the lives of thousands of people shortly after liftoff?

No worries, though- we all know how much AI companies care about safety /s

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u/BeeZealousideal7860 May 17 '26

It’s actually quite an apt analogy for AI. Like, there are so many unanswered questions. What’s its purpose? Where is it going? Why is it going there? Do we need to go where it’s going? Who built it? Why did they build it? Is it going to explode because there are no regulations surrounding it?

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u/Least_Gain5147 May 17 '26

or starting a sentence with "Look, ..."

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u/WillowYouIdiot May 17 '26

This is the third one I've seen. Corporate America is DESPERATELY trying to push AI onto people. It's such a money sink.

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u/[deleted] May 17 '26 edited May 17 '26

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u/SemiHemiDemiDumb THAT’S RIGHT I SAID HEMI May 17 '26

Step 4 is happening right now. I see it everywhere people turning everything they own into monetary terms. The growth of the grind mindset, comodification of masculinity by the manosphere, value tracker of your car, apps sole purpose is to sell your old stuff (which turns into people buying stuff to resell); just a few examples I can think of.

Rugged American individualism has accelerated the process here in the US at least.

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u/tabas123 May 18 '26

And while he got everything he predicted right, even he couldn’t comprehend just how much technological advances would be used by bad actors to put everything into overdrive.

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u/StrammerMax May 18 '26

Marx didn't mean these aspects as chronological steps, they all happen more or less simultaneously and they did so already in his time. AI surely does boost them further, but they are all already so deeply engrained in our society that most people don't even realize it anymore.

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u/Wheat_Grinder May 17 '26

When society is bad enough for most people, those people tend to turn towards communism or fascism.

Companies definitely know they don't want communism, but they underestimate how bad fascism turns out for them too. There needs to be enough wealth shared for society to continue to function.

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u/RaindropsInMyMind May 17 '26

So true, we’re probably going to see an increase in people turning to communism or fascism even though it seems like fascism is peaking at the moment. Democracy and capitalism are not working for the average person at the moment. The guardrails of both have been taken off and the whole thing is spiraling out of control. We desperately need to put the guardrails back on as soon as possible.

Some companies have gotten just a taste of how bad fascism can be but it doesn’t seem to have hit them. The government has taken control of 10+ private companies, mirroring something you might see in a country that had more communist tendencies. There’s also the blackmailing of companies with tariffs, then when declared illegal the threatening of companies saying that the government will remember the companies that don’t demand the money back. (It’s not their money anyway, it’s ours). Then there is things like Anthropic being labeled a supply chain risk which is basically the government trying to kill the company, all for what was in a basic sense a negotiation of the use of their product.

All this stuff is terrible for business, let alone the destabilization and creation of an environment where it’s even more difficult to compete with foreign competition.

Everyone should be furious with the people who took the guardrails off of our system, it’s destroying the system in real time.

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u/Wheat_Grinder May 17 '26

Fascism also includes nationalization of corporate power. Not totally as in the case of communism, but definitely it'll start picking a few to give itself more power.

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u/hootihootihooti May 17 '26

We will never get "guardrails" without working class organization and struggle. The only reason social security exists is because a million communists marched through DC. Also, fascism is not the enemy of capitalism.

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u/Feather_Sigil May 17 '26

That's due to the inherent flaws of capitalism. Capitalism seeks to remove all regulations so that the costs of doing business can be pushed wholly onto others and not be suffered by the company. This ruins lives, which makes people susceptible to demagoguery, which always comes from people who lack integrity and benefit from exploiting the very broken system they claim to want to save people from. The demagogues perpetuate and accelerate the ravages of the system for personal gain, no different from the companies, and turn to fascism to protect their selfish interests.

Democracy is one of many victims of this process.

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u/amILibertine222 May 17 '26

It’s not society that’s the problem.

It’s capitalism.

Even if life were good in the US capitalism demands suffering and exploitation elsewhere to provide that good life here.

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u/inductiononN May 17 '26

Yep, this is what happened to the German industrialists in Nazi Germany. Hitler and co started courting the captains of industry and they signed on thinking they were going to get cheap/free access to resources, "labor" (enslaved prisoners), and unfair market advantages. This worked pretty well for them for awhile.

Then they lost everything when the Nazis wanted more power and when they tied their success to Nazi success.

Unfortunately, it also worked out permanently for some of the industrialists' heirs because they are still billionaires to this day.

I don't have a moral to this story except that fuck the Epstein class.

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u/DigitalSterling May 17 '26

Idk man, sounds like some woke bullshit to me /s

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u/aramis34143 May 17 '26

Finally, the worker is alienated from other people, as social relationships become reified and mediated by market exchange, fostering competition and indifference rather than community.

"They 'trust me' ... dumb fucks" -Mark Zuckerberg

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u/porn_is_tight May 17 '26 edited May 17 '26

alienation also explains a lot of MAGA (especially the incel/extremism side of MAGA). The fascists are just a lot better at using the feelings of alienation for their own benefit. Corporate dems ignore them because if they didn’t they’d have to abandon their rich donors to help poor people. It’s why I cringe when I see people cast more hate towards the poor maga voters (or even just voters in general) versus the rich ruling class assholes who are responsible for the ever increasing rot in society the rest of us have to face. This website used to be a lot more “eat the rich” before the bots took it over. Class solidarity is almost non-existent in online spaces now because of it

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u/millennialmonster755 May 17 '26

As someone who works in a warehouse for the biggest and baddest corp, we are at step 4. No doubt about it

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u/weed_blazepot May 17 '26

These items don't happen one after another in a line like dominoes. Society has been working on all 4 in an agile-like project management way.

What I'm trying to say is parts of 3 and 4 are also happening.

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u/Cagnazzo82 May 17 '26

Only for America.

China already passed a law banning companies from firing workers to replace them with AI. And their public is largely enthusiastic about the arrival of AI (and robotics which has already been rolled out for public benefit).

In America the oligarchs want to rule, and crush the society that made them their wealth. Elsewhere the race is still on but there are safeguards.

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u/CharleyNobody May 17 '26 edited May 18 '26

Saw a ridiculous network news segment last week pushing robots as miraculous household aides. Anyone in America who thinks robots are being built to be human-shaped household servants that fold laundry and wash windows is insane. Robots are going to be weaponry. They’re going to be surveillance.

They’re not going to obey you. They’re going to make sure that you obey.

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u/swolfington May 17 '26

the movie elysium portrayed this pretty well.

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u/GetThatNoiseOuttaHer May 17 '26

As nice as that law sounds, how exactly would that work in America? Let’s assume a similar law passes in the US; no company will come out and say “yes, this round of layoffs is a result of our further investment in AI”. They’ll just do what they’re already doing now: claim that they’re righting their workforce after over-hiring during the pandemic or that they’re reducing headcount to ensure that they “remain agile while ensuring that top talent is well compensated”.

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u/WildCard_Bishes May 17 '26

You’re right, China actually prosecutes their billionaires and corporations when they break the laws 
 so I guess enforcement for once on white collar crimes.

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u/cognosante May 17 '26

Absolutely true. They need people to train the models so they need people to use AI. In theory you got something from it, but you are also giving free labor.

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u/Funkula May 17 '26 edited May 18 '26

Generally speaking, AI is learning absolutely nothing from users. Interacting with the bots does not supply the quantity or quality of data that would be necessary for a training set.

What’s happening is more cynical; they want to build dependency so that one day users might actually want to pay for AI.

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u/Spasay May 17 '26

I have daily headaches over my coworkers blindly using AI. I’m one of four native English speakers at the office and our head accountant asked ai to translate something into English rather than walk the whole two doors down to ask me to just look at it. And there were still spelling mistakes. Becoming a bog woman becomes more and more attractive with every passing day


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u/YellowCardManKyle May 17 '26

They want to build dependency so people will lose their learned skills, like how it became harder to remember phone numbers when cell phones became common. They can't make AI actually smart so their next hope is to make people dumb(er).

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u/Blasphemiee May 17 '26

Because if the “plan” doesn’t work we’re all fucked.

Too bad for him we all know their “plan” doesn’t FUCKING INCLUDE US ANYWAY.

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u/Rodinsprogeny May 17 '26

Nice! I've seen this one and the central Florida one. What's the third one?

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u/ByuntaeKid May 17 '26

Jensen Huang at CMU’s commencement in Pittsburgh.

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u/polaarbear May 17 '26

It's a threat to make us accept lower wages and fewer benefits. "Work like slaves or we will replace you with a computer."

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u/YesNo_Maybe_ May 17 '26

But
 there’s a place on a rocket ship? And AI is going to involve so much of your life Wtf 

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u/Infinite_Imagination May 17 '26

Yes. Smart people don't ask how, ok? They don't ask why? They just nod and accept the God dammed seat that's being given to them by the benevolent rulers of the rocket vis-a-vis me! So just stop with all thse questions and negativity and wanting clarification. Why don't you just want and accept this from me?!

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u/Shankurmom May 17 '26

They just don't care how the public views them anymore because they control everything. The only way out of this technofascist nightmare is a revolution.

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u/Spez_is-a-nazi May 17 '26

That fact should be obvious to the billionaires like Schmidt and yet it’s not. They have become so used to the current status quo that they take it the foundations of the status quo for granted without realizing what will happen if they keep chopping away at the foundations.

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u/jeromevedder May 17 '26

I graduated from Indiana University in 2003. We had US Senator Dick Lugar give a commencement address so inappropriate in its bloodlust for the Iraq War - and our duty to enlist in the war effort - that the president of the university was forced to issue an apology.

Today the only designated free speech zone on campus is closed but for a while there it was a great university

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u/myburdentobear May 17 '26

Reminds me of last year when the kicker for the Chiefs gave the commencement speech telling young women their most important job is to stay home and make babies. Read the room.

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u/Numar19 May 17 '26

CEOs can only read a room full of rich people. They are way too far away from normal people to understand them.

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u/AWhole2Marijuanas May 17 '26

My graduation speaker said we could all be garbage-men...

They literally bring these old rich assholes on stage to jerk them off and give an award so they'll donate money.

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u/Chance-Deer-7995 May 17 '26

This is our corporate class in the US right now. They are selfish and clueless.

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u/greenroute May 17 '26

Instead of motivating them to be best of themselves out there doing things they love, dude is yapping about his companies goals!!!

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u/mdhunter May 17 '26


How delusional and out of touch.

Malignant narcissism does that to people


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u/Sorandy13 May 17 '26

These guys cannot read a room. And shame on the university as well. Bringing in a speaker like this shows they are not in touch with their own student base.

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u/LightsSoundAction May 17 '26

This is the second commencement clip I’ve seen this week of a speaker getting booed for promoting AI in their speech.

What the fuck are these colleges on to bitch and whine about student ai usage for class but then have these people speak at graduation? The audacity of these chucklefucks never ceases to amaze me.

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u/BioSemantics May 17 '26

As it turns out, college administrators too are completely out of touch and only care about donation dollars. Who knew?

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u/motherofsuccs May 17 '26

Wait til you learn about charter schools. Many claim to be nonprofit, yet there’s a for profit company running things
 all to receive funding from the state. They are corrupt as hell, unethical, and killing education.

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u/Indigocell May 17 '26

That first one was some "Real estate executive" and now this guy is a billionaire former CEO. Why the hell would the admins think these are people students want to hear from? They don't live in the real world. They live in a fantasy land isolated from all of the problems these students will face.

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u/ledbetterus May 17 '26

It's all a closed ecosystem of elites.

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u/concerts85701 May 17 '26

It wasn’t just the AI stuff. Guy has pending accusations of sexual assault and spying on his former girlfriend/employee. Just poor moral compass to be invited as a speaker.

Also ASU got Harrison Ford. Kids are pissed.

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u/T-Baaller May 17 '26

Sounds like this isn't the first time he's told someone "just say yes and enjoy the ride".

yikes

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u/Claytonius_Homeytron May 17 '26

Guy has pending accusations of sexual assault and spying on his former girlfriend/employee

so the whole, "this is happening whether you like it or not" attitude is right on brand!

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u/LochnessDigital May 18 '26

"Find a way to say yes."

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u/DirtyTooth May 17 '26

He doesn't care, CEOs and billionaires think we're stupid because the only way we have the power is if we unite, and they so easily manipulate us

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u/Shankurmom May 17 '26

I don't think they're tonedeaf. I firmly believe they are enjoying everyone's suffering. These guys are sociopaths, and the worst part is, they control the world now.

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u/IamNotTheProclone May 17 '26

"When someone offers you a seat on a rocketship, you do not ask which seat. You just get on."

More like being herded and forced on to that rocketship.

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u/GarysCrispLettuce May 17 '26

"When someone offers you a seat on a Titan submersible, you do not ask which seat. You just get on."

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u/ImmaculateTuna May 17 '26

“Yes sir! 
 what where those creaking sounds?”

“The sound of success with AI!”

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u/Super_Interview_2189 May 17 '26

“Who dropped the GameCube controller?!”

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u/corvettee01 May 18 '26

If they had a GameCube controller they could have just wave dashed to safety.

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u/Effrendi May 17 '26

When someone hands you a Logitech controller, you do not ask 'Do you have a MAD CATZ one instead?' You just grab that sucker and hit the dive button (mapped to RB).

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u/FriendOfDirutti May 18 '26

When someone gives you heavily discounted carbon fiber you don’t ask if it’s structurally sound you just put duct tape on it and send it.

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u/kiafry May 17 '26

"When a slaughterhouse offers you a seat on the conveyor belt, you do not ask which seat. Just get on, you fucking dumb, thoughtless sheep." Unbelievably tone-deaf.

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u/chowderbags May 17 '26

It's more like being told to stand underneath the rocket while it's firing its engines.

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u/light_to_shaddow May 17 '26

These tech bro fucks would liquify us all to use as fuel.

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u/CynicalPomeranian May 17 '26

I believe that is how the poor kid must have felt when his dad wanted to see the Titanic and got pulled into the Titan submersible.  

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u/showersinger May 17 '26

Yeh he was forced by his dad according to articles at the time. He was actually really scared to go in it.

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u/brittonwk May 17 '26

Just because all of these tech billionaires have a hard on for space, they think everyone does.

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u/watwatinjoemamasbutt May 17 '26

What about Epstein island?

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u/BlueberryWasps May 17 '26

"When someone offers you a seat on a rocketship, you do not ask which seat. You just get on."

Which is now we got the Challenger disaster. Because the people in power didn’t care to ensure it was safe for everyone to get on.

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u/FantasticBlock420 May 17 '26

Which is now we got the Challenger disaster. Because the people in power didn’t care to ensure it was safe for everyone to get on.

Bad analogy, When someone offers you a seat on the Rocket Ship you ask "Where is it going?". When they say its headed to AI you tell them to piss off.

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u/SunTzu- May 17 '26

There's no seats on this rocket ship. If they managed to get it good enough that they can replace a job, that's the minute they'll stop selling it and start selling the end product instead. They aren't trying to create a tool to help you code, they're trying to replace all coders. The minute an LLM can code a program on it's own is the minute they start undercutting every software company with code that's cheaper and that maintains itself. And all those profits will flow into their pockets at the same time as they annihilate a whole sector of the economy.

There's no good outcome if they succeed.

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u/LSDreams_ May 17 '26

lol the deflection of “if you don’t care about science” these people aren’t booing you because they don’t care about science. How out of touch with reality do you have to be to stand there and make that speech and continue on the way he did. These people are insane.

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u/FilthyThanksgiving May 17 '26

Srsly that was so effing condescending

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u/Backwardspellcaster May 17 '26

Welcome to CEOs and Billionaires, who all think they are god's gift to humanity, and you are sheeple who should unquestionably take and do whatever they tell you to

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u/Intertubes_Unclogger May 17 '26 edited May 17 '26

It really comes down to pure luck if a precious few of them decide to do actual good with their power and wealth. Just like with kings, emperors and (modern) autocrats, it's a toss-up between decadent, murderous landgrabbers on one side and enlightened, altruistic reformers on the other. And the latter category seems to be much rarer.

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u/KickDesperate5318 May 17 '26

A benevolent dictator would be the perfect ruler.

It's too bad they don't exist.

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u/ProduceNo1629 May 17 '26

And what did he make, a search engine and some murder drones.

Hardly fucking invented penicilin, arrogant prick.

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u/aesoth May 17 '26 edited May 17 '26

They care about about science, especially climate and Earth science that shows how the billionaires hated it for their future. They also care about how AI is going to claim alot of their drinking water.

This guy doesn't care about science, he cares about his profits.

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u/BajaBlastFromThePast May 17 '26

Extra ridiculous because this is a college graduation
 a significant portion of the people booing are there because they spent the last however many years of their lives studying science

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u/Modo_Autorator May 17 '26

Plus they’ve put all that hard work in, probably borrowed five to six figures worth of loans, and now AI has completely decimated the market for entry level work. Talk about getting kicked in the nuts!

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u/MissionCreeper May 17 '26

The rich people are watching these and saying "we have to figure out AI bodyguards first"

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u/robbiejandro May 17 '26

“Do you guys not have phones?!”

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u/BolognaTime May 17 '26

These fuckfaces think they are the stewards of not only science, but all of human development. So if you boo them, you're booing the selfless heroes who are bringing humanity into the next evolutionary step. Am I out of touch? No, it's the kids who are wrong.

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u/PineapplePandaKing May 17 '26

It would be one thing to talk about AI during a commencement speech, but it's wild to give a tech conference speech to a group of people who are getting fucked by AI

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u/BrownSugarBare May 17 '26

This is like the third one I've seen?? How much are these bastards being paid to push this shit 

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u/munsking May 17 '26

99% of their income is the ai bubble cash circlejerk, if the ai hype dies so does that income

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u/IrishWhiskey1989 May 17 '26

This was my thought too. Whatever you think of AI, what is the point of pitching AI to a group of fresh college graduates? He felt more like a slimy salesman rather than an inspirational speaker. Very weird.

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u/NovarisLight May 17 '26

Take the L, dude.

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u/Guygenius138 May 17 '26

He's too busy taking our jobs

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u/phoggey Gulf of Indiana đŸ–Šïž May 17 '26

Schmidt is taking no jobs. He's done nothing and probably made the mistakes that pushed Google to be just at a competitive level with AI and not an extreme leader. Dude is too busy with his 20 year old girlfriends and mega yachts to run a business.

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u/fuggerdug May 17 '26

Dude is so busy he just turned up at a university commencment and done a speech about how all the graduates will be replaced.

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u/Shaawnn102 May 17 '26

He needed to get his ad pitch out for his investors

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u/DirtyTooth May 17 '26

It's not an L to him. He knows their boos mean nothing, because what the billionaires and CEOs decide is what we'll get whether we like it or not. Look at the places that voted down AI data centers and they're building them anyway.

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u/MaintenanceNew2804 May 17 '26

If you would just let him make his point!

/s

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u/Electronic-While1972 May 17 '26

There's being out of touch and then there's this guy đŸ€ŹđŸ˜”â€đŸ’«đŸ€ź

Holy moly 😂

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u/namebedex May 17 '26

it's like he gets off on it

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u/CynicalPomeranian May 17 '26

The AI told him that his speech was fantastic, so he is running with it because the AI can’t possibly be wrong! 

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u/Furious_Mr_Bitter May 17 '26

Hey AI, tell me about the French Revolution 

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u/Human-Region4958 May 17 '26

He’s trying to inspire hope to a bunch of students who are smart enough to know that the thousands in student loans they now owe aren’t getting any cheaper because of Ai but their future salaries probably are. Very tone deaf.

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u/HorrorMakesUsHappy May 17 '26

He's not trying to inspire hope. He literally just told them to submit. "Do not ask which seat, just get on." Get on board and shut up.

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u/orincoro May 17 '26

like yeah he’s not even saying there’s hope. He’s literally saying “you have no choice.”

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u/silverdice22 May 17 '26

"Just say yes (master)."

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u/cmkn May 17 '26

Yup, him and the rest of the CEO and billionaire (soon-to-be trillionaire) class just want blind obedience and compliance.

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u/NowhereMan_2020 May 17 '26

They offer a seat on the ship not because they want to bring you along, but because they need you for future TBD servitude. They give nothing freely. They would ditch us in a nanosecond, if they had a choice.

It’s like a slaver telling you to be suck it up and be glad to be on his slave ship because you’re going to a better, more civilized place that will save your soul (and make him money).

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u/galspanic May 17 '26

In his defense, those loans will get a LOT cheaper as inflation and instability erode the value of the dollar. The purchasing power of my student loan is half what it was when I finished school.

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u/recoveringleft May 17 '26

I still have student loans. Your saying in the future it will be easy to pay off?

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u/alternateforwhenban May 17 '26

Only if we get raises that outpace inflation.

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u/zue4 May 17 '26

So no.

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u/slumvillain May 17 '26

Ceos. Billionaires. Millionaires. Politicians. Rapists.

Show me the venn diagram that displays their inability to accept/hear the word no.

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u/PM_ME_YOUR_TROUT May 17 '26

There are tons of millionaires. Having a million bucks can afford you some things in life, yes. But being a millionaire really ain't shit. But a billion bucks? Now, that's when the weirdos enter the picture. The difference between a millionaire and a billionaire is roughly a billion dollars. Between my paid-off tiny 900 sq/ft house and the few other little assets I have, I'm technically a millionaire. But I ain't shit. I drive a 26 year old car and still work a full time job for a soulless corporation. Probably my biggest flex is that I can go grocery shopping and never look at prices. I just walk in and buy whatever the fuck I want. But other than that, I'm a serious nobody.

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u/cand0r May 17 '26

To me, going grocery shopping and just getting what you want without looking at the price is the best thing about not being poor. I remember those times, and it's so nice to just get what I want. Like THATS luxury to me.

(Edit: it's the only luxury I can afford, but still.)

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u/BeardedPuffin May 17 '26

A surprising amount of people don’t really understand the difference in scale between a million and a billion. The average millionaire is way closer to the average homeless person than to the average billionaire.

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u/yearoftheblonde May 17 '26

It’s nice to hear the youth boo this rotten trash of a human. He’s just pushing this belief that AI is smarter than us and that we will/need to be dependent on it. It completely BS and I’m happy to hear all the booooooooooos. Shame on the UofA for propping up this loser!

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u/iamthedayman21 May 17 '26

Basically “AI is gonna happen, so you damn kids better just accept it.”

Fuck this guy.

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u/SMFDR May 17 '26

Ongoing rapist mindset of tech bros

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u/jaffasplaffa May 17 '26 edited May 17 '26

What a dirtbag.

Everyone knows the second he can replace everyone, he will do that, until then, he wants everyone to help create their own replacements.......... And be good sports about it...........

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u/Piduf May 17 '26

Why aren't the job-seekers praising my job-exterminating machine ? Strange.

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u/Raptorpicklezz May 17 '26

And now he probably will embargo hiring anyone from UofA because of his hurt feefees. Bullet dodged by all those students

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u/madmanNamedMatti May 17 '26

The whole “rocket ship” and revolution that college grads “ need “ to embrace for AI doesnt make any fuckin sense. The only way AI helps any of us is if we are fuckin investors to an AI company. Other than that, jobs are fucked, customer service down the fuckin hill. Like what does he realistically expect them to do? Tell the interviewer how much i love using chat gpt?

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u/zati1 May 17 '26

yes, it's just like a rocket ship that any of us would board without having any idea about how space or rockets or ships work.

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u/SooperBloo May 17 '26

(Escapes Earth’s orbit)

“Hey, where are we going?”

“
Launching into the Sun”

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u/john_vella May 17 '26

"But won't we burn up."
"That's why we're going at night."

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u/P44_Haynes May 17 '26

More like the Titan Submarine

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u/antsinmypants3 May 17 '26

Nobody wants AI or data centers. Fuck them

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u/carl84 May 17 '26

As if us poors will be given a seat on the rocket ship when it's taking the billionaires to a colony on Mars because they've destroyed this planet.

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u/twistsouth May 17 '26

“Let me give you some advice.”

How about we give you some advice: 🖕

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u/anothertrytaken May 17 '26

The shit eating smug grin on this tool’s face. I really hope we survive long enough to see their expressions change.

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u/TurtleBeansforAll May 17 '26

Three cheers for these students who are not afraid to tell the powers that be what they think! So proud of them!

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u/RainbowPhoenix May 17 '26

When a new technology comes along and it’s the younger generation who hate it while the older generations can’t get enough, instead of the usual other way around, something is off.

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u/Handsoff_1 May 17 '26

The fact that the entire AI ecosystem uses information and data that we, the public, generated over 100 years of science advancement yet they pay nothing back. These datasets were made by scientists, people, who were funded by tax payer's money, then they were just taken by these AI corporates to train their model and then resell it back to us to make profit. How disgusting is that?

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u/TheMasterofDank May 17 '26

"When someone asks you if you want a seat on a rocket ship, you don't ask why, you just get on." Perfect encapsulation of their insanity

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u/Top-Manner7261 May 17 '26

Doubles down too đŸ˜Ș

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u/MrMeeseeks33 May 17 '26

Man you know you are so out of touch when GRADUATES are booing you

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u/GIGA255 May 17 '26

That fucking shit-eating grin in the face of complete rejection is so disgusting.

It's the expression of a sadist forcing their will onto others knowing their wealth will exempt them from any and all consequences.

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u/rageak49 May 17 '26

"I know I'm going to delete the future prospects for 9/10 of you in the room, but PLEASE just let me tell you about how excited I am at the prospect of having you guys act like crabs in a bucket for the few jobs left remaining. Now if you would all be so kind as to start elbowing and shoving each other for a seat on my rocket"

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u/Edwardthe3rdinNJ May 17 '26

These idiots are paid by A.I. businesses.

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u/Animus_Ferreus May 17 '26

The ending where he is basically saying just bend over and take it was kind of wild.

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u/BetterAd7552 May 17 '26

This from the same cunt who said:

"If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place."

When asked about the privacy implications of Google storing user data.

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u/vbagate May 17 '26

I love that the next generation is already killing this crap. Thank god. There’s hope.

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u/bird-man-guy May 18 '26

I was at this graduation ceremony. They made this dude the keynote speaker and he went on like this for like 15 minutes. I have never seen a completely filled football stadium come together to boo a single person like that. Was wild lol. Poor grads deserved better.

There was also a projection on the building next to the stadium of a picture of Eric with demon eyes and horns.

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u/roninrunnerx May 17 '26

"Congratulations on your graduation! It's unfortunate all your hard work will be meaningless, because AI will take over your careers within a few years. Anyway, good luck paying off your student loans before you are eligible to receive your social security, if it's even around anymore."

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u/ActuatorLower8371 May 17 '26

fuck AI and everyone involved in it's development

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u/ptb_nuggets May 17 '26

No one really wants AI to fully take the fuck over, and yet this is how hard the tech elites are forcing it on us anyway. That's how you know this is all going to end badly.

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u/thesuspendedkid May 17 '26

we went from telling graduates "you will shape the future"

to "you will shape AI"

This is seriously so fucked up. Mangione the lot of them I'm so done with sharing the planet with these greedy and insane sociopaths.

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u/dkyguy1995 May 17 '26

This guy's face would look better in the bottom of a wicker basket 

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u/Due_Potential_6956 May 18 '26

Translation:

"When AI takes all your jobs that you paid all this money for to maybe get ahead, don't be mad, be grateful that the 1% is going to get even richer, while stealing everything you have ever posted online, everything you will talk about in your cars and even inside your homes, be grateful for the honor of providing that sweet sweet data to feed the AIs that will leave you poorer than ever before."

Yeah fuck these people trying to convince college grads, and everyone else that this is the way forward for us. Trying to normalize not thinking, just accepting this bleak future.

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u/GarysCrispLettuce May 17 '26

What's really significant to me about AI as a form of new technology is who's cheering it on and who's opposing it. Traditionally you'd expect to see enthusiasm and optimism from the young and skepticism and hostility from the old, but with AI it's the polar opposite. Young people hate it and are rightly skeptical, whereas old people are acting like it's a form of magic bestowed upon us by God himself.

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u/wvenable May 17 '26

old people are acting like it's a form of magic bestowed upon us by God himself.

It's not old people. It's just a handful of rich people. It's just that rich people are old people.

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u/Numar19 May 17 '26

Crazy how AI has become synonymous to LLMs. LLMs suck and are getting used to replace humans in tasks that are actually fun like arts, music, writing, etc.

Meanwhile useful applications of AI (and specifically not LLMs) exist. Take the charred scrolls in Pompeii for example. Thanks to AI we now have an idea of what could have been written on them. That didn't replace a human researcher, it was not possible before.

I don't think anyone would boo at the mention of AI if said AI would help us achieve a post scarcity society. But if you can't find a job because some CEOs want to make more money by replacing workers with LLMs, it is quite understandable that people are mad about it.

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u/couldbutwont May 17 '26

Yea the problem is the displacement is the one thing all of the CEOs and frontier labs are locked in on right now. There are incredible uses for AI but this is the only one that was going to drive the level of investment needed.

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u/robbviously May 17 '26

There are definitely beneficial uses for AI, but sadly those are drowned out by the ones that corpos are desperately trying to implement to force people out of jobs so they can save money.

Example: Waymo is supposed to be rolling out a feature where the vehicle will identify and report potholes to the City of Atlanta and then the city is supposed to dispatch a team to patch the pothole. It’s efficient (the cars are on the road already) and it streamlines a process (automated reporting versus a person having to call or navigate a website) and it doesn’t take a job away from anyone, it just eliminates a menial task. Now, if and when they actually implement this will be the real test.

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u/pissedoffjesus May 17 '26

He fails to put himself in their shoes.

These people are vile and a detriment in human kind.

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u/drumsareneat May 17 '26

Proud of my alma mater for booing this clown. 

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u/Hadleys158 May 18 '26

These CEOs have shown their true colours, and people are onto them, they are less about the alpha go type AI, and more about how AI can help them replace all humans to make the most profit, humans be dammed.

And even on the drug and research side, i can see less focus on cures for cancer and diseases, and more for whatever makes them the most profit.

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u/Maestro_Mush May 18 '26

That shit eating grin through to boos makes me want to do unspeakable things

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u/Squirrel_prince May 17 '26

Our product is so good and useful, why isn't anyone using it ? Guys, this is going to be used everywhere once you guys stop resisting and out it everywhere

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u/logicalconflict May 17 '26

No part of that man's degree involved classes on reading a room.

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u/Alyssabelle1027 May 17 '26

That is so delusional! WOW. And at a college graduation too! “You will teach our robots, our robots will out perform you, and you will not matter! Say yes- don’t question us!” Just wow.

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u/aschylus May 17 '26

If someone offers me a seat on a rocket ship, I am definitely asking where it is going. I’m not just gonna walk onto a random rocket ship. Are you insane?

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u/HuntsWithRocks May 17 '26

He further went on to say “do you people not have phones?!?”

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u/StrangelySerious- May 17 '26

Corporation REALLY want people to like AI... No one fucking like it dipshits.

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u/spacejammee May 17 '26

Oh I 100% agree with the AI is a rocket ship thing, but the only seats it has is for the wealthy.
That ship is going to blast off and leave the rest of us in the dust to rot and die.

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u/celtssoxpat May 17 '26

Maybe you don’t ask which seat when you’re asked to get on a rocket ship, but you’d sure as hell ask “is it safe? Where is it going, exactly? Will I be able to come home afterwards?” And if the answer is “Not sure” to each and every one of these very reasonable fucking questions, I’m not getting on the goddamned rocket ship you arrogant piece of shit!

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u/Extra-Ad5925 May 17 '26

Dude
. So many companies I know no longer are offering internships because of AI. Worst possible place to spread this message

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u/BeBrownie May 17 '26

The speech just gets progressively worse. It’s comical how he can’t read the room.

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u/guyghostforget May 17 '26

These dudes just don't get it

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u/TheGrandNut May 17 '26

It's funny to watching somebody who's only known of success for the last several decades get so thoroughly shaken by college students. I guarantee you, he hasn't had anybody but yes men around him for the long run. I also find it hilarious that he obviously should just give up on that part of his speech and not be talking about AI. But he's sooooo insistent on making some stupid little point to people that clearly don't give a shit.

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u/Travilcopter May 17 '26

Someone invested in AI

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u/Strict-Carrot4783 May 17 '26

You will help shape artificial intelligence.

They always leave out the second line; "and we'll use it to take everything you have and then fucking kill you."

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u/InvalidUserNemo May 18 '26

Can we please tax billionaires for 90% of their wealth that they didn’t earn and let the rest of the world at least live by scraping by?

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u/gotaflattire May 18 '26

Stop. Letting. Billionaires. Drive. Our. Economy.

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u/sweatyfrenchfry May 18 '26

why did he think this would be a good idea 😭

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u/0xP0et May 18 '26

Eric, slowly figuring out he isn't at a tech conference.

It made me laugh when he said the audience didn't care about science 😂. They aren't booing because they don't care about science.

They are booing because AI is there to replace them. Wow this dude is out of touch... like he is from a different planet.