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In desperate times, graduates find hope in humiliating tech CEOs
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TL;DR
- Graduates are booing and heckling commencement speakers who praise AI, particularly former tech CEOs like Eric Schmidt.
- Students feel executives are out of touch, promoting technology that threatens their job prospects and education value.
- The anger is most pronounced among liberal arts and humanities students whose creative fields are significantly impacted by generative AI.
- Graduates are critical of the 'adopt-or-die' attitude towards AI, especially when employers use it for layoffs and hiring freezes.
- Examples of AI failures, like a college AI misreading names and AI hallucinating quotes in a book, fuel student skepticism.
- While social media amplifies outrage, graduates are looking for tangible actions, such as the growing movement against AI data centers.
- Despite concerns, some young people find hope in youth-led initiatives and activism against the negative impacts of AI.