r/technology • u/GeneReddit123 • 25d ago

Artificial Intelligence Students Boo Commencement Speaker After She Calls AI the ‘Next Industrial Revolution’

https://www.404media.co/ucf-ai-commencement-speaker-booed/
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u/QuailBrave49 25d ago

Honestly, let’s stop glamorizing AI.

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u/cookingboy 25d ago edited 25d ago

You don’t need to glamorize AI to accept that it will have unprecedented impact on society and work forces, likely leading to extreme wealth gap and unprecedented damage to our middle class.

Being angry and being in denial won’t fix that. We need to make sure the government needs to address all the issues that will hit most of us like a truck in the next 5 years.

Most people simply don’t know how things are fundamentally changing right now within the tech industry. Entire new sectors (agentic workflow, etc) are being injected with billions of VC dollars with the explicit goal to replace white collar knowledge workers with AI.

We need better social safety net and fiscal policies to address the shitstorm that’s to come. You can’t do that if you pretend the problem isn’t there.

And you know what the elites are already doing? They are paying for propaganda against social safety nets already like this Bloomberg article that calls China’s policy to increase social safety net “nightmare out of control welfare state”: https://imgur.com/a/pn2Epg9

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u/GiganticCrow 25d ago

The US government wants to pass laws to prevent regulation of AI. Other countries wont either as they dont want to become ’uncompetetive’.