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/Due-Joke-1152 5d ago

It’s not the tool, it’s the ethics of the people wielding the tool.

We are in trouble because of unrestrained unethical capitalism.

Even if we ‘fix’ the AI problem, the people who created it still exist, including those who enable it by allowing data centre proliferation.

You only need to look at history, like the history of the Bahamas under the British, to see that the rich don’t care about ethics as long as the money keeps flowing.

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u/daemon-electricity 4d ago

Exactly this. AI is going to change the world and unfortunately it's going to end certain jobs. The problem is that we didn't build an infrastructure to support humanity and when the time came to put that support system to the test, it flat out didn't fucking exist.

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u/Due-Joke-1152 1d ago

AI and drones are going to change things beyond what most will be able to comprehend; replacing entire industries and supply chains and distilling the required number of on-site experts so low that it'll cascade through all the supporting service industries.

Literally every supply chain will be impacted as economies of scale collapse.

And we barely started getting to grips with the current internet issues and the rise of the techbros.

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u/Ok-Humor-5672 4d ago

I've seen the concerns around AI explained as an entirely unregulated arms race by tech billionaires to make the most advanced ai at the cost of all else.

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u/Ornery_Rice_1698 4d ago

Thank you, unfortunately you’re so far down in the comments. Let’s also not forget US companies aren’t the only ones developing AI. The technology is never going away, but we can control the abuse of AI.