Alex Wilhelm

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This Week in Startups · Why does Gen Z hate AI? · 18 May 2026 podcast

We talk about it at the dining halls and in history classes on dates and while smoking with friends at the gym and in communal dorm bathrooms. matched

For some, AI has opened the door to staggering wealth, but for many who came to Stanford, when a degree seemed like a guaranteed ticket to a high-paying job, the door has been slammed shut. matched

Going on, cheating has become omnipresent. matched

I don't know a single person who hasn't used AI to get through some assignment in college. matched

Moving on, and I matched

Tech enabled newly AI powered world, students are were increasingly fudging just about everything. matched

They would embezzle dorm funds to spend on their friends and lie about having COVID to get the Uber Eats credit the school offered to those in quarantine. matched

Half of laptops in any lecture seemed to be open to ChatGPT or Claude, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. matched

So it seems that AI arrived all at once to universities and instantly dissolved the foundations of kind of a liberal arts higher education much faster than it crushed. matched

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the workforce. matched

So these students in their cynicism are saying we're up to our necks in this and we don't like it. matched

And that makes me legitimately concerned about the future. matched

He fired that guy? matched

Well, I mean, ultimately, I think now layoffs Jason have gone from a a shameful act to actually one that signals to investors two things. matched

One, that you're finding uh efficiencies from AI automation already. matched

And two, that you're conserving capital, aka gunpowder, if you will, for the future to be more AI first. matched

So I think investors dig it, but sucks for people who are suddenly cut loose. matched

It's it's brutal for them. matched

Can I actually underscore something you told me a few months ago? matched

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