Cam Wilson

Yes, there have been a lot of commencement speakers who've been mentioning AI, obviously one of the biggest topics in the world right now, particularly relevant to young people thinking about a future career.

Ronnie's approach to it was a little unorthodox.

He told them quite directly that their job was not to embrace and adopt A.I., but to destroy it.

He said that it was making mediocre people feel like they were smarter, and it's something that he thought has ultimately been a pretty negative influence on the world, so not a massive fan of it.

Yeah, did not get the same receptive audience that Ronnie did.

And he kind of went to them with this message saying, hey, you know, there is this new thing and you should be embracing it, you know, trying to use this technological transformation to, you know, make the world a better place.

In some ways, quite an anodyne message, but one that earned the boos and jeers of the audience.

Yeah, absolutely.

In response to companies setting up data centers across communities, you know, in the US and in Australia too, you're seeing these mobilizing of people against them in a way that has never happened before.

You know, I was talking to someone in Australia about data centers and they were saying, you know, two years ago, no one cared what we did with data centers.

Now they're all up in arms.

Yes, he did.

He came out with this 42,000 word encyclical about kind of, you know, the perils of AI.

And, you know, not just the fact that he's talking about the technology itself, but he was talking also about the approach to AI from the people who are creating it, promoting it.

He kind of compared it to the Tower of Babel.

He was saying, you know, humanity is building this thing that is so big and is treating it in a way that it's almost, you know, in competition with God itself and that this hubris ultimately will tumble down and end up, you know, biting them.

Yeah, we are the equal lowest in the world in terms of negative sentiment towards AI.

And we have the kind of most bad vibes about it at the moment.

That came from EY, but there is plenty of other polling about this.

We see time and time again, more than a majority of Australians are distrustful of AI.