[teekert]

But they don't even have jobs yet, they are simply entering a fast changing world. I am a bioinformatician at the moment, when I left school I could sequence 200 basepairs by hand using gels. Now I use supercomputers to process terabytes of data. I didn't think of booing Illumina at the time.

I can't imagine they boo because the world is changing? Isn't that just exciting? I hope they were mostly taught how to think, and not just rigidly prepared for 1 single profession to be performed in a specific way? That hasn't worked for the last decades.

I can imagine them booing big tech (all your data are belong to us) and wealth differences though. They can't buy houses, they're not insured by default etc etc. There is much to boo about indeed. But AI? Meh.

[jaggs]

I think it's the nature of the change that's really freaking them out. You left college and used a new tool to do things more efficiently. These kids are being told they won't be needed for any job at all. The AI will do the whole thing, the AI takes over their whole job. It's a subtle but important difference, I think.