AI tech CEOs are getting booed at college graduation speeches - for which they are inexplicably being asked to attend as speakers - for spruiking AI. And the reaction basically boils down to a thinly veined threat of "embrace AI or you're fucked", or at its most egregious, "you can hear me now, or you can pay me later".
A couple of things. First of all - the first guy is a FORMER Google CEO. He's not even running the company any more, and he's still shilling their bottom line. Secondly, who the actual fuck are hiring these malignant fucks to speak at university/college graduations? And finally, what gives these fucking cretins the right to be speaking to college students - motherfuckers who just spent four years or more getting a degree - about the thing they're specifically gearing up to monopolize the industries these graduates are going to be going into?
Like it's absolutely fucking baffling, right? Commencement speakers are usually meant to be somewhat inspiring, speaking from personal experience and instilling a sense of hope or sharing some degree of wisdom with a crowd of people about to enter - for lack of a better term - the "real world" for the first time. An example of a commencement speech that actually addresses university graduates as people and offers constructive and inspiring advice is Tim Minchin speaking at the University of Western Australia:
And that works because Tim Minchin is an artist. He's a satirist, so he makes jokes, but he gives real, solid life advice and gives his speech with the intent to give his audience hope for their futures.
These tech parasites SEE THE BACKLASH - they're booed by auditoriums full of people - and their reaction is to go "well you're not ready yet, but this IS the future and you WILL have to adapt". It's fucking subjugation. It's not a "harsh life lesson" that young adults just aren't hearing - it's people with real, material skin in the game of AI hearing backlash, and doubling, tripling down on AI. It's the opposite of what these speeches are meant to be. It's self-aggrandizing self-fellatio at the expense of the people they're meant to be encouraging.