Recent commencement speakers including Google's Eric Schmidt have been booed for praising AI and encouraging students to use it as they embark on their careers.
CEOs, presidents, sports figures or celebrities giving commencement speeches in 2026 is just next level distopian at this point. Even more so that a CEO goes on the podium, tells students to “deal with it” and that they have a responsibility to fix the issues THAT THEY THEMSELVES have made is just… fucked.
These ghouls should not even be giving speeches at any educational facility in the first place; it’s because the US associates being rich with being educated/intelligent that they get any place in the spotlight (and the huge speaking fees the college is probably all too happy to pay).
Comrade, it’s not the AI. It’s the ruling class. They do this with every new means of production. They displace workers to increase the rate of profit. Fighting AI is like mopping the floor instead of stopping the sink from flooding. Fight the ruling class, not the means of production. Capture the means of production, and their power vanishes.
CEOs, presidents, sports figures or celebrities giving commencement speeches in 2026 is just next level distopian at this point. Even more so that a CEO goes on the podium, tells students to “deal with it” and that they have a responsibility to fix the issues THAT THEY THEMSELVES have made is just… fucked.
These ghouls should not even be giving speeches at any educational facility in the first place; it’s because the US associates being rich with being educated/intelligent that they get any place in the spotlight (and the huge speaking fees the college is probably all too happy to pay).
Comrade, it’s not the AI. It’s the ruling class. They do this with every new means of production. They displace workers to increase the rate of profit. Fighting AI is like mopping the floor instead of stopping the sink from flooding. Fight the ruling class, not the means of production. Capture the means of production, and their power vanishes.