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Still, it’s not exactly surprising to detect some students in a booing mood
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That pessimism isn’t solely a response to the rise of AI (a shift that even some software engineers are worried about ), but journalist and tech industry critic Brian Merchant suggested that for many students, AI has become “the cruel new face of hyper-scaling capitalism.”
Key facts
- Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt faced a similar response when he brought up AI at a University of Arizona speech on Friday
- Last week, Gloria Caulfield, an executive at real estate firm Tavistock Development Company, gave a speech at the University of Central Florida acknowledging that they're living in a time of “profound change,” which can be both “exciting” and “daunting
- Another graduate, Alexander Rose Tyson, told The New York Times, “It wasn’t one person that started the booing
- That pessimism isn’t solely a response to the rise of AI (a shift that even some software engineers are worried about ), but journalist and tech industry critic Brian Merchant suggested that for many students, AI has become “the cruel new face of hyper-scaling capitalism
Summary
Commencement season has come around again, and this year, a couple speakers have discovered that it’s tough to get graduating students excited about a future shaped by artificial intelligence. Last week, Gloria Caulfield, an executive at real estate firm Tavistock Development Company, gave a speech at the University of Central Florida acknowledging that they're living in a time of “profound change,” which can be both “exciting” and “daunting.” “The rise of artificial intelligence is the next industrial revolution,” Caulfield declared, prompting the students in the audience to begin booing, getting louder and louder until Caulfield chuckled, turned to the other speakers, and asked, “What happened?” “Okay, I struck a chord,” she said. Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt faced a similar response when he brought up AI at a University of Arizona speech on Friday.