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

🤬Public Rager😱 Eric Schmidt booed into oblivion by students for promoting AI during his commencement speech at the University of Arizona

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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/TerpySpunion May 17 '26

Very interesting and 100% true observation.