Ex-Google-Chef Eric Schmidt buhte nach KI-Bemerkungen bei der Eröffnung in Arizona aus
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/18/eric-schmidt-ai-university-commencement-speech-booed
Ex-Google-Chef Eric Schmidt buhte nach KI-Bemerkungen bei der Eröffnung in Arizona aus
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/18/eric-schmidt-ai-university-commencement-speech-booed
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I was there but was actually yelling „boo-urns“.
“Am I out of touch? No, it’s the children who are wrong.”
Did he say something specifically that triggered boos or was it just his presence in general? The article isn’t clear and the quotes they attribute to him are pretty benign.
He’s the guy who’s being accused of rape?
He deserves worse than booed
Great. Love to see it.
He should deliver his commencement speech to AI. Why is he delivering it to other human beings? He a Luddite or something?
Why didn’t they pelt him with water bottles?
I mean the guy is an [alleged rapist](https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2026-03-06/former-google-chiefs-spying-sex-assault-lawsuit-sent-to-arbitration) so I’m not surprised he forces his worldview onto others.
It is hilarious how these tech billionaires think they can stand in front of a crowd of graduates and lecture them about AI. If he loves it that much, he should just give his speech to a chatbot instead of talking to actual human beings. Turns out people are sick of hearing the same corporate hype.
„You see, no matter what happens I should be ok because of my impenetrable wealth……wait….why are you booing me…“
sooooo, when will he be replaced by an AI?
good. the commencement-speech-as-sales-pitch is disgusting
Why is it that I know with confidence that whenever I click a link to a news site I will get bombarded with ads and then when I scroll over the entire page there is nowhere to watch the video that the article is about?
What an idiot. He thought going to a university and speaking to college students about AI replacing jobs would be applauded?
Why the fuck is a rapist pal of Epstein giving a commencement speech?
Fuck that rapist ghoul
Singing the praises of something that’s destroying the job market to a room full of people all sending out resumes is wild. This is how you radicalize people and I hope it works.
What I hate is that these people (probably purposefully) misconstrued what it is that I think people hate. AI is a theft from the rich. The people in fields working with AI are working harder than ever, longer than ever and being paid less to do it. AI has only been another way to do wage theft and that’s not even talking about the other costs it incurs.
Why did they invite a child rapist to speak?
What’s crazy to me is I don’t even think it’s the AI itself that is the target of the booing. It’s the obvious, hardly-guarded fact that people like Schmidt will take all of the benefits of the “revolution” for themselves.
The only reason I can imagine of that he would think graduating students would respond positively to his speech is that young people (including me; Millennial here 👋 lol) for the past two to three decades have continuously eaten this shit up.
Something broke though between COVID and ChatGPT and I guess they still haven’t updated their firmware?
You guys want clean water and air and jobs and food ?!
What a tone deaf dick.
I’m sure the new grads are happy to hear about something destroying the job market
My heart was warmed when I saw the video of him being booed. You could tell it was getting to him, and his patience was starting to wear thin as he started turning red.
He’s also an alleged rapist.
It’s appropriate to boo Eric Schmidt regardless of what AI-related comments he makes.
„my buddies and i are making life harder for you in exchange for accumulating vast wealth. good luck, you’ll need it“
Saved you a click. Also, who thinks a real estate exec is inspiring?
“Shouting and jeers against Schmidt’s talk started when he acknowledged fears that AI threatened to deprive people now entering the workforce of a future.
“I know what many of you are feeling about that,” Schmidt said. “I can hear you. There is a fear.
“There is a fear in your generation that the future has already been written, that the machines are coming, that the jobs are evaporating, that the climate is breaking, that politics are fractured, and that you are inheriting a mess that you did not create.”
He acknowledged that their fears are “rational” and encouraged them to adapt and to shape how it will be used in the future – rather than for that shape them.
“The question is not whether AI will shape the world. It will,” Schmidt said. “The question is whether you will have shaped artificial intelligence.”
The student body’s response to Schmidt’s remarks comes days after students graduating from the University of Central Florida booed Gloria Caulfield, a real estate executive, when she spoke of “the rise of artificial intelligence is the next Industrial Revolution” – and about “living in a time of profound change”.”
Maybe these schools should do better than a CEO who isn’t even an alumnus for commencement.
These people really are completely disconnected from the reality that the majority live in. Fucking clueless
I’ve been comparing this to the dot-com bubble, and the big thing I’m seeing different is that for dot-com, tech companies emphasized how the internet would make things better, and over promises on it, idealistically at the beginning, causing the bubble and collapse. AI has done the opposite. They keep trying to talk about how things will get better because of AI while everything around us tangibly says differently.
Just went to my brother’s commencement at a different school and the students also booed the schmuck AI exec they had speaking. The kids might be alright…
I am of the generation that, maybe naively believed that tech was going to create a more democratic open society. Free flow of information, enlightenment, connectivity with shared ideas between peoples, the whole optimistic hopium shit a naive person in their 20s felt.
Eric Schmidt was brought in front of congress over results ranking on their front page. Republicans at the time believed Google was creating unfair advantages for ranking (and would compare paid spots to unpaid saying it was unfair when it was the entire business practice for Google). At the time, Google was testing fiber in select cities and my Sen.; Chuck Shummer sort of winked at Eric and said something to the degree of; “when will you bring fiber to the Hudson Valley.”
Boy oh boy did i eat that up.
Seeing him get booed now, I am doing an about face on this whole idea. How that thinking may have just been idealistic me seeing things the way I wanted but each update in their systems chipped away at that idea. We weren’t there to connect and share ideas, we were being farmed. Eric thinks those boos are coming from the cows he farmed. Those boos are coming from people who have been sent to the butcher.
We need to treat “AI” as contamination. A toxic digital spill in our creativity, in our job market, and in the environment.
It’s POISON. It’s creating a population who cannot think for themselves or hold meaningful skills.
Straight up culture/livelihood/community/environment POISON.
„hard work doesn’t pay off and it won’t anytime soon“
„Why are you booing“
Even without AI remarks I would boo Eric
Schmidt
for being a pompous piece of
Schmidt. Known Epstein associate annd anccused rapist Eric Schmidt.
He shouldn’t be giving speeches he should be hiding and living in obscure shame.
It’s very obvious that a lot of these people are so insulated they actually don’t know this is the response of most regular people and young people.