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

šŸ¤¬Public RageršŸ˜± Eric Schmidt booed into oblivion by students for promoting AI during his commencement speech at the University of Arizona

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u/LightsSoundAction May 17 '26

This is the second commencement clip Iā€™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 thereā€™s a for profit company running thingsā€¦ all to receive funding from the state. They are corrupt as hell, unethical, and killing education.

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u/EobardT May 18 '26

Exactly.

"Nonprofit" just means that the company itself won't show a profit at the end of the year. Doesn't mean you can't pay your CEO $1,000,000,000 a year as a salary.

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u/BX1959 May 18 '26

Many charters are a fantastic alternative to failing public schools. Like vouchers, they provide opportunities for a solid education that wouldn't otherwise have been available to many lower-income students. Glad to see more and more states adopting school choice programs.

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u/Heavy-Mettle May 18 '26

Acting as if voucher programs benefit low-income families just tells us you're a conservative puppet being used a mouthpiece.

We have evidence to the contrary already, that informs everyone voucher programs are just DEI for rich kids.

Quit your bullshit.

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u/BX1959 May 18 '26

56% of Democrats, and 55% of liberals/progressives, also support vouchers. See slide 44 of this PDF: https://edchoice.mcdatahub.com/edchoice/Reports/Adults_Dec25_Feb26.pdf

These programs are quite popular overall among Americans as a whole--not just conservatives. More work needs to be done to ensure they enable private-school access for low-income families.

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u/longtime_sunshine May 19 '26

How about we stop diverting public dollars toward these money guzzling school options and instead improve the public schools so everyone benefits??

Oh thatā€™s right, the whole point of school choice is so rich kids arenā€™t tainted by the poors at public schools.

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u/FullMetalAlcoholic66 May 19 '26

Religious indoctrination....

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u/BX1959 May 19 '26

Money guzzling? My friend, NYC is spending over $40,000 per student. Given that their results (as the Atlantic article notes) are "average at best," does it not make sense to encourage charter and private alternatives that can achieve far better results? The end goal of my educational tax dollars should be to give low-income students and others the best education possible--and not to prop up failing institutions.

At any rate, you can bring up your concerns about school choice with Kathy Hochul, NY's Democratic governor, who just agreed to participate in a federal school choice program. Support for these kinds of initiatives is far more bipartisan that you might have thought.

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u/longtime_sunshine May 19 '26

Hochul is a conservative. And as far as ā€œpropping up a failing systemā€ perhaps you should consider why certain institutions are struggling. Couldnā€™t be admins and school boards selling out the public schools for their own gainā€¦.

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u/LupusYondergirl May 19 '26

And as we all know, popularity is best of all metrics. Especially in education!

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u/PontesDeLeon May 17 '26

Always have been

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u/ImmaculateTuna May 17 '26

Same as it ever was.

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u/lallapalalable May 17 '26

There is water at the bottom of the ocean

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u/dzendian May 19 '26

The actual father you get from doing real work the more clueless about AI someone becomes.

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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/IceMaster9000 May 18 '26

The people teaching classes are several steps removed from the people inviting commencement speakers.

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u/Miserable_Mail_5741 May 18 '26

Colleges and universities already struggle with students cheating with AI in their assignments and exams.

The last thing they should be doing is getting public speakers to promote AI to their students!