Viral videos of graduates booing AI show the risks of replacing junior staff
Australian businesses racing to automate junior work are eliminating the very people best placed to help them survive the AI transition.
The most revealing conversation about AI isn’t taking place in the boardroom.
By now, you have probably seen at least one of the viral clips exploding across the internet. A speaker takes the stage at a packed university graduation ceremony, ready to inspire the next generation, and instead of applause is met with thundering boos as soon as they mention AI.
Eric Schmidt, former CEO of Google, at the University of Arizona: “If you’d let me make this point, please!”
Gloria Caulfield at the University of Central Florida: “What just happened?”
Big Machine Records founder Scott Borchetta at Middle Tennessee State University, facing the same wall of noise.
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