5/19/2026 at 6:18:02 PM
by 1vuio0pswjnm7
5/19/2026 at 8:40:08 PM
> “It will touch every profession, every classroom, every hospital, every laboratory, every person and every relationship you have,” Schmidt said, as booing began to build in the audience.This is being forced to listen to a former CEO talk about how amazing the products being built at the company he used to work at are. I'd have booed too.
by nitwit005
5/20/2026 at 6:12:53 AM
I mean they got Schmidt.. I think they failed at conceptionby danny_codes
5/19/2026 at 8:45:11 PM
[dupe]The American Rebellion Against AI Is Gaining Steam
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48188310
Eric Schmidt booed at University of Arizona after praising AI
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48172419
Students boo commencement speaker after she calls AI next industrial revolution
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48096674
Multiple commencement speakers booed for AI comments during graduation speeches
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48177107
An AI Hate Wave Is Here
by ChrisArchitect
5/19/2026 at 7:08:54 PM
Companies 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?
by rjbwork
5/19/2026 at 8:11:21 PM
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?by AnimalMuppet
5/19/2026 at 7:44:28 PM
HTTP error 451 for accessing this site outside of US, meh.by nokeya
5/19/2026 at 8:07:07 PM
Booooooohby pixel_popping
5/19/2026 at 10:28:33 PM
out of touch 1%er unc fails the read on normal people social cues, tomatoes inbound. where have i seen this before?by 9p
5/19/2026 at 7:11:21 PM
We 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.”
by steelkilt
5/19/2026 at 8:19:35 PM
They probably don’t like it because the AI industry has spent years saying it wants to make them all unemployed.by drawfloat
5/20/2026 at 9:35:42 AM
Most of them won’t be unemployed.by steelkilt
5/19/2026 at 7:20:59 PM
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".by JohnFen
5/19/2026 at 7:54:17 PM
>is bad for the environment, is bad for societyCan't it be those too?
by mulr00ney
5/19/2026 at 8:10:42 PM
No way, it’s definitely 100% because college kids are entitled or something.by ofjcihen
5/20/2026 at 9:38:23 AM
I don’t blame them for how they feel. In fact, I feel sorry for them. Covid took a few years from them, then AI comes along and invalidates their career choices. That’s a hard case.by steelkilt
5/20/2026 at 12:27:10 PM
Oh yeah I don’t blame them at all.And to be clear that was sarcasm from my earlier comment.
Nah the kids grew up in the middle of “once in a lifetime” events and are now subject to a life where what’s considered a viable career changes every 2 years or so.
They’ve never known a stable world.
by ofjcihen
5/20/2026 at 1:58:48 AM
Entitled? Or something?Reactionary. At worst young kids are lazy (in selected cases only) and nieve about how work works.
Entitlement comes from mental disorder or growing up in affluence like much of the upper 5%.
Moreover, kids from middle to lower income brackets i think work harder, are more resilient, and take their education more seriously than those that just fall in Harvard. The underlying difference? Consequences in the real world. When you always land on your feet or feel untouchable entitlement is 6 months away to a lifetime of clueless.
by scrubs
5/20/2026 at 2:50:58 AM
I think the comment you are responding to meant that sarcastically.by DeltaCoast
5/20/2026 at 3:25:28 AM
Siby ofjcihen
5/21/2026 at 12:05:06 AM
Oh! My bad!. Let give me give my best rosane rosanadanna (from old school SNL TV era) "never mind"by scrubs
5/20/2026 at 9:34:49 AM
Of course. Multiple things can be true.by steelkilt
5/19/2026 at 9:37:30 PM
"Fuck you, got mine"by addycb
5/20/2026 at 9:33:46 AM
Most of the people I know worked pretty hard for what they have.by steelkilt
5/20/2026 at 6:13:49 AM
Tale as old as boomerby danny_codes
5/20/2026 at 9:36:23 AM
Actually, that’s a tale as old as humanity itself.by steelkilt