[neksn]

> And absolutely no one seems to be interested in answering the question of “okay, then what?”

I don’t see why the people being booed should be responsible for answering this question. How many such questions did the inventor of the tractor have to answer?

[vitally3643]

The tractor displaced horse and oxen.

Which were slaughtered when no longer needed.

You should rethink your metaphor because it's not having the effect you intended.

[wat10000]

Imagine if the inventor of the tractor went to a college for farm workers (if there were such a thing) and gave a commencement speech that was all, "Tractors are going to revolutionize farming by making your jobs obsolete." I think it would be fair to expect some answers about how the new graduates should handle that. Or maybe Mr. Tractor should just stay home if he doesn't have the answers or doesn't want to face the crowd.

This isn't "people are upset with AI and demanding answers from the people creating it." This is, "the creators are showing up at schools and giving speeches about how everyone is fucked, and this is getting a bad reaction for some unfathomable reason."

[harimau777]

They caused the problems, so they are responsible.

[Rantenki]

It would absolutely have been valid to ask that question of the inventor of the tractor too.

It's even more relevant to ask of the CEO/CTO/COO/etc. of the companies that are selling hard on eliminating humans from as many workflows as possible.

[neksn]

They are selling a reduction in labour costs which has been the primary selling point of automation since humans began automating things.

[amanaplanacanal]

Yep. They are talking to other CEOs, not to the young graduates they are supposed to be talking to.