[evil-olive]

> “I know what many of you are feeling about that. I can hear you,” Schmidt responded as the boos continued. “There is a fear in your generation that the future has already been written, that the machines are coming, that the jobs are evaporating … and I understand that fear.”

71 year old man with a net worth of $64 billion [0] tells a bunch of 20-somethings (many of whom have tens of thousands of dollars in student loan debt that they will need to start repaying soon) that he understands how they feel.

yeah, I can't imagine why he got a hostile response from the crowd...

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Schmidt

[breakpointalpha]

U of Arizona graduated roughly 10,000 students this weekend.

Schmidt could have paid off every student loan for every graduate in full and not even noticed it as a rounding error in his net worth.

Would have done so much more for humanity that this vapid speech.

[stogot]

fact that universities admin think this speaker was a good choice also shows how out of touch admin has been

[frm88]

Plural. The fact that the multiple universities admins think it a good idea to invite those speakers shows how out of touch a whole class of people is with society. As of yesterday evening there were three reported booing events on commencement speeches, all having AI as topic. In one case they let AI read out the name of the students to enter the stage for their diploma and the AI forgot a couple: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFCNd61FCzY