Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt was giving a talk at the University of Arizona on the 17th before about 10,000 graduates. When he started talking about how artificial intelligence is going to change the world, The students responded with a loud boo. Schmidt said he understood their misgivings: “There is a fear in your generation: that the future is already written, that the machines are coming, that jobs are disappearing, that the climate is being destroyed, that politics is fragmented, and that you are inheriting a chaos that you have not created.” He has not been the first to be booed for selling AI on campuses: it happened to Scott Borchetta, CEO of Big Machine Records, in Tennessee, and Gloria Caulfield, a real estate executive, in Florida. As soon as the usual verbiage is heard (“The question is not whether AI will shape the world. It will. The question is whether you will shape AI,” Schmidt said), young people stir. And very particularly they, the young ones, the most awake to the new threats. The only thing missing was for someone not so young to join the wave, Pope Leo XIV, who declared in his first encyclical: “AI is already an environment in which we are immersed and a power that we must confront. Therefore, it is not enough to regulate it; it is necessary to dismantle it and make it welcoming.”
The resistance to AI is the young. And especially the young
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