Eric Schmidt booed at University of Arizona commencement

ddll.bsky.social868

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

Phillip Rees366

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+)196

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

Scott Santens139

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.

Julie Fauble117

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

Marcelo Soares106

"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.

Floyd Epps100

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

Arcturus SaDiablo78

Every time this happens, an angel gets their wings.

samwithrow.bsky.social73

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

Alex MacLaren64

“FIND A WAY TO SAY YES”

AllCaps-2263

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.

Luke52

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.

leemarvinoswald.bsky.social47

"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.

Ellin Stein40

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...

Fenrir40

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.

galaxyhobo.bsky.social38

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.

tabs out37

offer him a seat on a deep sea submersible

Neil Turkewitz37

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.

E. Perkins 🎃35

Fuck the rocketship, give me healthcare.

L'Ood 🏜️34

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

🖐️ DrAlanT 🎬 📚 📎31

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

Jeff Michael29

"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!

Stephan John Meyers29

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

Kiki Valken (they/them)27

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.

Kristjana Ásbjörnsdóttir26

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

Ellin Stein25

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

Daz23

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

"That's fine, dude. I'm not mad at you."23

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.

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.

Lo20

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

The Limit19

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

Kennebel19

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

Ray Woodson18

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

Robodobdob17

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

Phil F.15

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"

David Hines15

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.

cheezeofages15

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

@dpc1zspeaking15

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

🌙 CamronJK 🐰 • Enby Bnuuy Vtuber • 🏳️‍⚧️14

Feels like a pretty good reason to definitely not have chosen him... wait... this isn't about the genAI stuff... this is... oh, it's worse... This says a LOT about those running the school.

Dee14

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

Helioscrivener13

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

Hugh Young-Bish13

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 Jim13

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

G.W.13

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

Klara Sterczewska12

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

Monica Byrne12

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

𝘼𝙡𝙚𝙭𝙖𝙣𝙙𝙚𝙧 '5 Likes Max' 𝙈𝙘𝙆𝙞𝙣𝙡𝙚𝙮 🍁12

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

Kuranes12

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

[pǝʇɔɐ p ǝ ɹ ] & Grogu12

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

Mark12

' "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 double12

it’s almost like this ai shit sucks or something

ildon10

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

like_a_bosstonian10

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

dayenu.bsky.social10

Claude, how do you read a room?

Jessica Cheeri10

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

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.

gravitysdisciple.bsky.social9

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.

Fatty Mackerel 2.09

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

David Kuhne9

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

Marshal Eaton (He/Him)9

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

Midnight Train To Georgia On My Mind8

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

Sami Sadek8

I'm surprised that the crowd didn't descend into a bloodbath upon hearing this bullshit speech. It's not enough to praise this bullshit but to completely bend over & take it really hard in the ass for it shows completely delusional and otherwise very sycophantic behavior.

Herisson Rose Jewelry8

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)

UrbanAid8

Eric Schneider ex google ceo speaks with arrogant contempt

schmaids.bsky.social8

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

Van Alan8

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

Jenn S.8

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

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.

burkejerk.bsky.social8

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

Joshua Shepherd8

And what pressing human interest is he working on now? AI drone swarms for the government.

silent but deadly 💨💀7

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

Dr. Dabbles7

Another great opportunity to share @sonnyross.bsky.social work bsky.app/profile/sonn...

msjackson.blacksky.app7

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

Mark 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇫🇷 🇮🇪7

Even young people hate AI and what it represents.

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.

Fielding Fishly🇺🇦7

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

Queersailorscout7

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

Feathered Stone7

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

orangedeflector6

The tech bros and hoes Fuck em’ all

Karen H6

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

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

Mariner's Tribble6

"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 McBride6

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

johncpgh.bsky.social6

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

ofalltrades6

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

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.

V. Murr5

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

cognitively accessible math5

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

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

dicegoblin77.bsky.social5

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

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.

Augustin Trébuchet, detto Agostino Bilancino5

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

Michael Bersin5

I have never been prouder to be an alumn of the U of A.

Casually Revolting5

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

lafourchette4

(i’ll bet he had ai write his speech)

JR Tomlin (she/her)4

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

Greg Gardner 4

Whatever happened to “Don’t Be Evil?”

samdpowers.bsky.social4

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

JBivens4

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!

Complex Oscillator4

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.

Evan Starr4

Maybe the kids are alright

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. 🖕

Darren3

The reality is clear. We, humanity are making ourselves obsolete in our own civilization. I think we will have a few opportunities to go back to a 'dumb' level of tech that will require the controlled, mass switch off of servers & data centers & a some pain. Or we lose wholesale to Ai.

Mr Matti3

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

UrbanAid3

Is this guy an alien?

There is only us. There is no ICE.3

These rich, rightist guys have only one language, the language of threat and abuse. #Epsteinclass

thebook-wyrm.bsky.social3

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

lapuma22.bsky.social3

Thank goodness the kids seem to have gotten the memo about these resources suckers!

nosferatu hater3

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

Lin Coder3

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

Franz Coughka3

Yeah but these pricks are clearly revelling in villainy.

Reticent Evil 93

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

Dan Porter Bridges3

I just want this AI fad to go away.

AlolanRoy3

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

graham graham3

this guy needs to get off linkedin

DrKPhD3

The kids dont like it

Susaga3

"If you're offered a seat on the rocket ship..." I don't really want a seat on the Challenger. In fact, I wish I had the ability to warn people AGAINST getting on it.

row-z.bsky.social2

Not sure what to make of this. AI is a tool. It is not going away. If we don’t like how the tool is being used, then we must change how it’s being used. Think nuclear power and the development of the atomic bomb. You can’t put the Genie back in the bottle

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.

BorderCountess2

Let me give YOU some advice: read the fucking room.

🇵🇸 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..."

GrumpyGizmo2

“The kids are alright.” — Pete Townshend (1965)

Mommy, a real person2

I thought my graduation speaker sucked when he spent most of the speech telling us how much cooler than us Ben Franklin was and how we'd never be shit compared to him.

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!

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.

ALL CAPS2

WHAT PERCENTAGE OF CEOs ARE TOTAL FUKING TWATS

Paul R2

When you're offered a seat at the AI bonfire, don't ask which seat. Ask for more butane.

Sebastian Fawkes14

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

Anthony★Deadman9

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.

TatiSky5

Internet had a young idealist feel. Crypto, as bad as it is, hand a young hustler feel. AI, has a old boomer pedophile feel. And they have themselves to blame associating themselves with Trump, Musk, etc...

𝕽𝖊𝖜™|DruagaBlackhart™3

They really be pushing this AI shit on everyone like our gov't did with L S D and Cr@ck

Rulo'th_Doodles (Gargoyle Edition)3

What a giant pile of human shit.

Mikey / DarthNeon0701 (anti-AI)3

The audience has every single right to boo at the very MENTION of AI slop.

dibbydibbydum.bsky.social3

The way these tech bros have no idea that they are villains and we all hate them and everything they do is *amazing.*

Jeff from Nindie Nation2

There is hope for the future generation. Give em hell.

Hex2

There could be a few more Luigi Mangiones if this keeps up. I’d imagine all the people around the AI data centers aren’t going to be too pleased, and some could take action.

Moose Williams18

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

Maxx17

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

Ellin4

And like those who refuse to hear no, this dude can't read the room, pivot, and find common ground. He's a tech CEO - he should be a pro at pivoting and making space for a new opportunity! Unsurprisingly, he just keeps shoveling it out. Proud of these graduates.

Daniel Tirebiter15

Turns out he’s all over the Epstein files (no surprise there) and the students had been protesting the invite for weeks, they were primed and ready to give him the business.

Emily PhD 🎓14

Boo them at colleges Boo them at speeches Boo them all, the life-wrecking leeches Boo them here, boo them there Boo these bastards everywhere

Isaac (did the steamed hams megillah) Gantwerk Mayer11

pump it into my veins. every video of college students booing commencement speakers telling them that they’re replaceable by slop

Steve Darnall6

Say this much for him: He doesn't know when to shut up.

שלמה לוי5

I wish they had even an ounce of introspection, but apparently that’s something they consciously avoid.

Dr. Ew5

I wonder when the last time a single person contradicted this guy or even just failed to kiss his ass at the maximum setting. I hope this sends him spiraling.

LeAnne, who is not high in this photo, but unsure about the cat3

That smug POS should be booed everywhere

bwalla3

Dude also just sounds like a massive condescending asshole.

NFLGimpy2

Harrison Ford could just grumble about being there for 15 minutes and I'd love every second of it.

Illinois invited Sean Evans, who compared life to eating chicken wings. Be more like that

Ignore this skeet3

they all thought it was Bill Pullman?

Imsolazy2

The oldest thing about me is lucid recollection of the Kinnear Talk Soup era.