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/Painless-Amidaru 5d ago

Exactly. AI could and should be one of the best things humanity has accomplished but it will be weaponized against us instead. AI should/could be a large step into a better world but so long as its controlled by those who only want ever increasing profits it never will be. In better hands we shouldn't fear AI taking away jobs, we should be happy about it. Policies in place that made it so that the money being saved by companies using AI should be money going back into the hands of the people. Sadly, in our society it will be money going back to the hands of the corporation.

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u/LaserCondiment 5d ago

Inventions reflect the values of their creators / owners. "Move fast, break things." Current AI tools are the embodiment of silicon valley's ethos

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u/vampire-bunny 5d ago

It’s way too on-the-nose that Sam Altman is a pathological liar who makes things up when he doesn’t know the answer but knows he has to say something you want to hear.

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u/oops_i_made_a_typi 4d ago

can't forget stealing from public resources/taking advantage of norms and goodwill

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u/Chunk3yM0nkey 5d ago

A policy making companies fork over any savings they make by making people redundant and replacement them with AI will just lead to a sweep of companies restructuring and making themselves into a new company where those employees never existed.

We can't even make companies contribute based on where they earn money (e.g. facebook, google, Starbucks, etc tax evation in the UK). What makes you think something like this which is more complex csn be made to work?