Graduates are booing pep talks on AI at college commencements
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Graduates are booing pep talks on AI at college commencements
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Re: Graduates are booing pep talks on AI at college commencements
#2Companies 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?
Re: Graduates are booing pep talks on AI at college commencements
#3We 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.”
Re: Graduates are booing pep talks on AI at college commencements
#4We 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.”
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".
Re: Graduates are booing pep talks on AI at college commencements
#5HTTP error 451 for accessing this site outside of US, meh.
Re: Graduates are booing pep talks on AI at college commencements
#6We 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.”
>is bad for the environment, is bad for society
Can't it be those too?
Re: Graduates are booing pep talks on AI at college commencements
#7HTTP error 451 for accessing this site outside of US, meh.
Boooooooh
Re: Graduates are booing pep talks on AI at college commencements
#8We 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.”
>is bad for the environment, is bad for society Can't it be those too?
No way, it’s definitely 100% because college kids are entitled or something.
Re: Graduates are booing pep talks on AI at college commencements
#9Companies 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?
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?
Re: Graduates are booing pep talks on AI at college commencements
#10We 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.”
They probably don’t like it because the AI industry has spent years saying it wants to make them all unemployed.