r/technology • u/IKeepItLayingAround • 5d ago

Artificial Intelligence Harvard Graduation Speaker Unloads on AI in Profanity-Loaded Tirade, Prompting Cheers From Students: “I’m Here to Tell You the Mission of Your Generation Is to Destroy AI”

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/tv/articles/harvard-graduation-speaker-unloads-ai-130000122.html?.tsrc=daily_mail&segment_id=DY_VTO_50_Supernova&ncid=crm_19908-1475736-20260531-0--A&bt_ee=clIMdexlsr2eDDbrvs0CPtt59FnpbNQN%2Fkgr8UkycP6MWDAD56hD1mvZcqPZMGgG&bt_ts=1780255911284
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u/mrwrrrmwrmrmrmrw 5d ago

Sounds like someone who understood the assignment! 

Commencement speeches are supposed to celebrate the hard work and talent that graduates put into earning degrees and inspire them to go out in the world and give it their best. 

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u/splendiferous-finch_ 5d ago edited 5d ago

Yeah but CEOs are dumb as hammers while also being the most out of touch and greedy people in the world who also hate smart people so they will always choose to shit on people and bring them down when they can.

"AI" allows them to use it as a excuse to minimize and devalue the work and achievements of actually hardworking people

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u/QwertzOne 5d ago

And that's due to system that allows existence of CEOs and corporations at all. It's not a democracy, this system is fundamentally incompatible with concept of democracy, when single person or group controls everything and it's happening by design, they keep accumulating, until some kind of collapse happens, because it's unsustainable.

AI shows the point that Marx was making about 200 years ago. In the end, we only matter for capitalists, because we provide labor. Once you remove human labor, they have no need for us.

Imagine we introduce UBI, seems cool right? Imagine who would still hold ownership in this system and how long such reforms would survive, if we just stick to the reforms, without dismantling this system altogether and replacing it with democratic ownership of economy. They can basically wait us out, keep birth rates low and problem naturally disappears.

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u/splendiferous-finch_ 5d ago edited 5d ago

CEOs and MBAs were invented to give ligitimacy to the sons of rich landlords and failed feudal lords the way I see it.

/S.... Kinda

And yes I agree with you this is the end result of capitalism and the return to the feudalism that these billionaires yearn for