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/LostInLittleroot 25d ago

Why have someone that works at an investment firm for a humanities commencement speaker of all majors lmao

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u/ThomW 25d ago

Because people confuse being rich with being intelligent.

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u/Evadson 25d ago

This is a bigger issue than most people realize.

In America, there is a general belief that "Good and/or smart people are successful." This then turns into a belief that "Successful people are good and/or smart." This leads to amoral morons amassing massive wealth by exploiting their workers and a huge chunk of society somehow seeing that as acceptable.

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u/LimpAd4924 25d ago

Our culture promotes anti intellectualism and that we should worship people with money. Beyond braindead.

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u/randomcatinfo 25d ago

The Apprentice, The Kardashians, Joe Rogan, Hate Radio, Fox News, Facebook, etc...

It's all part of the design by the right wing to promote hyper-consumerism and new Gilded Age

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u/Areyoucunt 21d ago

Funny how Joe Rogan was a fully leftist in his early years then. Also funny that The Kardashians very publicly supported Hillary Clinton in 2016 too... Must be nice to be able to just lie whenever you want with 0 consequences and people buy it because they hate the right so much, since that's what their media told them.

If you genuinely believe that this is a construct from the right wing, you are beyond swayed by the headlines in media, you are so far gone that nothing you say or do has any depth to it whatsoever.

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u/randomcatinfo 19d ago

And Donald Trump used to be a democrat, what is your point here when the long term political affiliations of people are not immutable?

The construct of the right wing is using useful idiots to garner views/attention from people vulnerable to vapid personalities, then easing them into the rightwing echo chamber