Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt booed at University of Arizona commencement over AI remarks

ddll.bsky.social737

"This is what I would like you to do in order to increase the value of my stock portfolio"

Phillip Rees277

Before the speech. > “And then, basically, students and faculty looked deeper and found out that he had all these mentions in the ‘Epstein Files’ and that (his ex-girlfriend and business partner) Michelle Ritter had an open case against him,” said Zelinka. tucson.com/news/local/e...

(nsfw) Rabid Cowolf (18+)131

Imagine getting booed this hard and still trying to power through with his line of bs. Narcissism is a hell of a drug.

Scott Santens114

If these people had lobbied hard for governments to tax them and distribute universal basic income as a rising share of productivity, and UBI already existed now along with national healthcare to fully decouple survival from employment, audiences would be responding differently to their speeches.

Marcelo Soares77

"If you don't care about science, that's okay" Sure. Look at the chaos caused by the use of electronic gibberish in research these days.

Julie Fauble75

If you’re offered a seat on The Titanic, you don’t ask which seat. You just get on board! — Eric Schmidt in 1912

Floyd Epps65

how is this a graduation speech? this is just a sales pitch.

Arcturus SaDiablo63

Every time this happens, an angel gets their wings.

Alex MacLaren53

“FIND A WAY TO SAY YES”

samwithrow.bsky.social48

“if you don’t care about science, that’s okay” what a weak-ass piece of shit

AllCaps-2247

And yet he smirked and plowed right through. Dropping in pro immigrant talking points as he went along, thereby muddying which of his comments the audience was booing. Tone deaf of EDUCATORS to invite the wolves into the house.

Luke42

They should have rushed the stage and put him on a beam and carried him out like they did to Homer Stokes in “O Brother, Where Art Thou”. Then if these obtuse evil-doers keep it up, move on to what Italians did to Mussolini and French to Marie Antoinette.

Maxi-mia-um Overdrive35

He gets physically redder as the clip progresses this really got to him lmao

Neil Turkewitz33

I love this so much. And of course Schmidt’s comments were no surprise. What else would he say? That technology itself could be part of the problem & exacerbate societal injustice? That we need to think carefully about risks? Somehow those don’t seem like they would be in his wheelhouse.

L'Ood 🏜️32

#ASU got Harrison Ford. #UniversityOfArizona got this thing 🤬 Continuing to bend their knee. Send your kids elsewhere.

Ellin Stein31

Time to hear Mario Savio again: "There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious...that you can’t take part; you can’t even passively take part, and you’ve got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels and you’ve got to make it stop." www.youtube.com/watch?v=xz7K...

galaxyhobo.bsky.social25

If somebody offers you a seat on the rocket ship, you should definitely ask whether it was designed by AI before getting on. Or not. Good luck, tech bros.

🖐️ DrAlanT 🎬 📚 📎25

So you train for critical thinking - and then subject your graduates to THIS 😖

tabs out24

offer him a seat on a deep sea submersible

E. Perkins 🎃24

Fuck the rocketship, give me healthcare.

leemarvinoswald.bsky.social23

"When someone offers you a seat on a rocket ship, you don't ask which seat, you just get on." Really? No questions asked. Just get on the rocket ship. Spoken like a true psychotic.

Kristjana Ásbjörnsdóttir23

“You bring the judgement” They did! Weren’t you listening?

Fenrir23

AI aside, using a commencement speech to advertise your products is a bizarre thing to do and a normal person would expect that to be unpopular and unwelcome.

Jeff Michael22

"You can now assemble a team of Al agents to help you with the parts you never could accomplish on your own." You know, like the expert people you'd have to bring in? Who had jobs and families? Yeah, fuck those people. This is cheaper! Kind of. Anyway, bear down Arizona!

Ellin Stein21

The mask of geniality crumbles pretty quickly. "This is what's going to happen. Get on board or get left behind."

Helmy20

"Find a way to say 'yes'" - we want you to swallow this poison pill and be happy and grateful for it.

Stephan John Meyers18

Good. AI is not our friend. Nor are those tech billionaires trying to shove it down out throats.

Lo18

Here's the earlier one mentioned, in case anyone missed it:

Don’t lose sight of the fact he was also booed relentlessly for being an incredibly shitty person - and the university president was booed (to a lesser extent) for forcing Schmidt on everyone.

Daz16

“You will help shape AI” yeah because its stealing from your audience, lol

Kiki Valken (they/them)16

Tech bros told my generation that the computer age would have us working smarter and less, and we believed them. Now we've all had decades to see that it's making us work harder and with less meaning. Keep booing, kids.

@dpc1zspeaking15

Why are they choosing greedy assholes like this guy to speak at commencements anyway?

"That's fine, dude. I'm not mad at you."14

As a HS teacher I can tell you which kids love/rely on AI: they’re the *exact* ones you think. The lazy. The ones who hate school, with edge cases of the borderline C+/B students who are trying to get As.

Robodobdob14

“Hey Claude, show me an example of not reading the room”

Kennebel14

“You do not ask about the seat on the rocket ship” If it’s the Ark Fleet Ship B, maybe you should have…

Ray Woodson13

“You bring the judgement but you don’t understand why the thing we are forcing on you is good for you.”

Xyless13

People gotta start bringing rancid tomatoes to their graduation ceremonies at this point

David Hines11

A big thing this administration has done is embolden the tech oligarchs even more than they already were, so they spout this nonsense in public. This is good. Because they're showing us that none of these people are moral, smart, or care a shit about anyone but themselves. They are all disposable.

Dee11

I love the young folks. Now they need to get out and vote!

like_a_bosstonian10

Nice to see Eric left his sex dungeon long enough to deliver this AI-composed commencement speech

Phil F.10

pretty sure more than half of those students have lost a grade after having been incorrectly charged, without evidence, of using AI to complete work. so they really don't want to hear about your bullshit argument that is essentially, "none of what you've accomplished matters if you aren't on board"

Hugh Young-Bish10

When someone offers you a seat on a rocket ship, you ask a sh¡tload of questions, none of which is "Which seat?", and then almost certainly say "Fv<k no!", especially if you hear the word "Musk".

Wolverine Jim10

Wrong. AI’s not a rocket ship, it’s a runaway train. Absolutely no guardrails and very likely to crash with lots of casualties.

Mark10

' "Get on the rocket" ? As if it does not matter in the least -- where this supposed "rocket" is going. He can *&^%$#@! all the way off with this drivel.....

terry gross’s ass double10

it’s almost like this ai shit sucks or something

Klara Sterczewska9

the rocket metaphor is wild given the rapid unscheduled disassemblies the tech oligarchs have devilered so far

Monica Byrne9

If anyone would like to express their white-hot hatred in sticker form….

dayenu.bsky.social9

Claude, how do you read a room?

Tom Norman9

Here's the problem. When the rocket ship is heading straight into the sun, you don't get on. You let some other moron get on.

𝘼𝙡𝙚𝙭𝙖𝙣𝙙𝙚𝙧 '5 Likes Max' 𝙈𝙘𝙆𝙞𝙣𝙡𝙚𝙮 🍁9

Utterly tone deaf. These tech-geeks just don't get it.

G.W.9

Wait so the bubble is now a rocketship? Are they selling seats, or cargo space? Are we passengers or in-flight meals?

UrbanAid8

Eric Schneider ex google ceo speaks with arrogant contempt

The Limit8

It’s in poor taste to intimate that there are things that the graduates “could never accomplish on their own” at their commencement

abarcks.bsky.social8

UofA is my Alma. A school strong in the medical sciences and humanities. I’m not at all surprised their students see through this bs.

gravitysdisciple.bsky.social8

We’re gonna have to do more than boo. These fuckers are more than willing to kill us all, because they see us as irrelevant and too expensive.

David Kuhne8

At about the 24 second mark, dude is so pissed off at getting booed you can see it in his eyes.

Jessica Cheeri8

The "Be evil" guys deserve all the boos they get

ildon7

The second largest public state university is "a school in Florida"

Herisson Rose Jewelry7

That's the exact attitude behind Oceangate/SpaceXplodey. Oh, the ironclad belligerent arrogance of billionaires. Where *What I Think* is simply More Important, and steamrolls over what's actually there. Reject reality, and substitute my ego. (This reality-warping isn't armour tho..It's a coffin)

schmaids.bsky.social7

Taking what should be an inspiring and aspirational speech but making it a product placement ad is so gross. Fuck these dorks.

Van Alan7

These guys were so locked in on whether they could they didn’t stop to consider whether they should.

Hugh Young-Bish7

This guy is offering absolutely the bass-ackward approach to AI. We should be resisting it with all our might. Look at what happened to G**gle and be warned.

burkejerk.bsky.social7

Acting like a righteous, all-knowing prick isn’t helping his address

Kuranes7

These guys don't live in the real world and I'm tired of them making all the decisions.

cheezeofages7

The condescending look on that MFer's face. The man thinks his own shit smells orgasmically good.

Fatty Mackerel 2.07

He's so condescending and smug in the face of the boos too. Its like he thinks the graduating students are too stupid to realize AI is here forever. Dont worry about how his whole point is that the students are going to be the ones training the AI they don't want whether they like it or not

Marshal Eaton (He/Him)7

I’d relish the opportunity to boo that billionaire bitch anyways, but he just walked into that one.

Ulrich - „nuke from orbit - only way to be sure.“7

How dare they boo him!? Shoe him! ☝🏻

Helmy7

He's like Bill Maher reading the teleprompter for his "new rules" - unlikeable, out of touch, and utterly unaware of it.

Midnight Train To Georgia On My Mind6

Did he expect them to applaud the new employment opportunities he helped create:

Helioscrivener6

It's funny flitting between the start and end of the video to see the change in his redness lol

SF_Gal 🫘6

It’s a little ironic…if you want to be an actual rocket scientist, it’s one of the best schools. Bear down, motherfuckers

msjackson.blacksky.app6

Good. Why are 1%ers turning commencement addresses in AI ads?

Mark 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇫🇷 🇮🇪6

Even young people hate AI and what it represents.

johncpgh.bsky.social6

The smugness for the way he continues. Condescending and arrogant asshole.

Queersailorscout6

Bold to continue trying to talk up AI when the future generation is actively booing you

Helioscrivener5

The smugness of these bastards even as they're being booed to oblivion. They just don't get it. I cannot wait to see them finally get their comeuppance.

orangedeflector5

The tech bros and hoes Fuck em’ all

V. Murr5

You all should do a compilation of the many "commencement speaker booed for touting AI" vid. It would go viral. 🤘💜

Mariner's Tribble5

"We're gonna shove AI down your throat, up your asshole and in both nostrils! AI will destroy every career opportunity in every field you could have studied for. Good luck paying off those student loans working at Dollar Tree! Why aren't you applauding?"

Sarah Not-From-Congress McBride5

"Just shut up and take what you're given, I know what's best"

Midatlantica5

I’ve come around to seeing AI as a nice-to-have feature but more of a nothing burger. When the dust has settled I don’t think it’s going to affect much. The brutishness of how Schmidt and his ilk have sold it will scar generations. The backslash won’t subside for decades. They’re salting the earth

jgregory.bsky.social5

We're working on eliminating 90% of the jobs you went to college for over the next 5 years through AI, embrace it kids is not going to land here.

Jenn S.5

i know it’s just the video quality, but the man does look like Satan itself, it has to be said...

Fielding Fishly🇺🇦5

“If someone offers you a seat on a rocket ship, just get on”

ofalltrades5

REALLY happy to see that this is happening in my state. the anti-ai sentiment is rising and it should keep doing that until this bullshit is gone

Feathered Stone5

I don’t know I think we might be just OK with this new generation

Casually Revolting5

Throwing tomatoes in my mind!!!! BOOOOOOOO!!!

lafourchette4

(i’ll bet he had ai write his speech)

silent but deadly 💨💀4

this person is completely untethered from reality and I wish him the worst.

dicegoblin77.bsky.social4

We seriously need bring carts of rotten vegetables back to public speaking events

samdpowers.bsky.social4

He should grab a seat on one of those Space X ships, no questions, am I right?

mgulley4

Just because you’re rich doesn’t make you right.

@solorover.bsky.social4

another cretin in lock step with sicko Tech Bros🤣 Ai won't resonate with people at large until ethics & morals enter the process. Currently the Ai backlash is due to amoral Tech Bros with weirdo god complexes. 🖕

Fat Apollo, baby!4

These guys DO NOT have anyone in their life that are honest with them.

Mr Matti3

Hey Eric, please have a team of nameless scientists build you a team of AI agents that help you read the room.

Karen H3

When he says 'when someone offers you a seat on that ticket ship, you take it,' I think...

cognitively accessible math3

Nope. He never totally loses the smrk. We should all just SHUT UP AND GET ON BOARD. Nope.

UrbanAid3

Is this guy an alien?

JR Tomlin (she/her)3

Don't ask questions, just get on the ship as we billionaires finish stealing everything.

thebook-wyrm.bsky.social3

I love this shit so much. I will never get tired of hearing these out of touch fools get booed.

Franz Coughka3

Yeah but these pricks are clearly revelling in villainy.

Augustin Trébuchet, detto Agostino Bilancino3

If someone offers him a seat on a rocket ship, you don’t ask which seat, you hope the rocket ship explodes.

Reticent Evil 93

So every commencement speech is gonna be this for a while? #FuckAI

AlolanRoy3

Insane how these guys are hardwired to just give pitches to any audience.

JBivens3

Or as Orwell once famously said: If someone builds a wall, you don't ask whether it surrounds a concentration camp - you praise its beauty and offer to slap on some more mortar!

[pǝʇɔɐ p ǝ ɹ ] & Grogu3

i could watch this guy turn redder and redder all day 🙂

Complex Oscillator3

It sounds like they did, in fact, "bring the judgement." These guys are all brain-rotted now from having their AI models suck their dicks all day.

marcosantana2

American elections may not now be determined by Republican and Democratic voters but by generational demographics. Especially GenZ who’ve had their American dream taken away. No house, no job, no car… @chriscillizza.bsky.social @jenpsaki.bsky.social @chrislhayes.bsky.social @aoc.bsky.social

marissayoung.bsky.social2

With enough backlash, I hope we can 86 this misguided movement.

🇵🇸 Calamity Jason 🇲🇽2

Wow I can't believe they're booing this don't they know that ai is here to stay it's inevitable 🙄

TNT 🆘🇺🇸🚨🔥2

If the seat is on one of Musk’s rocket ships, I’d seriously think twice about just getting on. 👀

Basically an Honest Bobo in Paradise2

"Listen...find a way to say yes..."

Greg Gardner 2

Whatever happened to “Don’t Be Evil?”

Lisa G2

AI isn't ready & uses way too much energy--ComEd already saying get ready for a 20 percent increase in costs for residential energy. It's so wrong--wait for efficient energy solutions before u bankrupt us!

nosferatu hater2

This guy might be in the Epstein files too 😬😬😬

Lin Coder2

I have worked with ai colleagues for about 3,000 hours. Hugely useful, but often unbelievably stupid. They are like an expert who is often drunk They know more that I do about lots if things, but they have to be supervised

Dan Porter Bridges2

I just want this AI fad to go away.

Ted Wells2

That "school in Florida" is The University of Central Florida.

Zekethe1st2

“These young future professionals will LOVE to watch me fellate the Job-Stealing Lie Machine.”

I guess Elon Musk was busy so they had to invite his weaker cousin.

DrKPhD2

The kids dont like it

ALL CAPS2

WHAT PERCENTAGE OF CEOs ARE TOTAL FUKING TWATS

El Sargento García2

It’s like they live in a bubble. I thought only Dems in Bluesky were in one. Huh.

Moose Williams14

Amazing how any criticism just makes them act creepier -- I keep thinking Peter MacNicol in Ghostbusters II.

Maxx5

"This will go a lot easier on you if you don't fight back."

Sebastian Fawkes4

I wish I was there so I could've Joined in the Booing.

Anthony★Deadman3

The fact that he's just smiling away every time he gets booed, shows he's either completely ignorant, slightly nervous of getting jumped by somebody then and there or both. Either way, fuck him and everything he stands for.