27 pointsby 1vuio0pswjnm77 hours ago6 comments
  • nitwit0055 hours 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.

  • 9p3 hours ago
    out of touch 1%er unc fails the read on normal people social cues, tomatoes inbound. where have i seen this before?
  • rjbwork6 hours ago
    Companies 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?

    • AnimalMuppet5 hours ago
      More: 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?
  • ChrisArchitect5 hours ago
    [dupe]

    The American Rebellion Against AI Is Gaining Steam

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48188310

    Eric Schmidt booed at University of Arizona after praising AI

    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

    Multiple commencement speakers booed for AI comments during graduation speeches

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48177107

    An AI Hate Wave Is Here

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48173318

  • nokeya6 hours ago
    HTTP error 451 for accessing this site outside of US, meh.
  • steelkilt6 hours ago
    We 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.”

    • drawfloat5 hours ago
      They probably don’t like it because the AI industry has spent years saying it wants to make them all unemployed.
    • mulr00ney5 hours ago
      >is bad for the environment, is bad for society

      Can't it be those too?

      • ofjcihen5 hours ago
        No way, it’s definitely 100% because college kids are entitled or something.
    • JohnFen6 hours ago
      I 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".
    • addycb4 hours ago
      "Fuck you, got mine"