Leah Feiger
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And we're continuing to see reports of people really not happy about data centers being built near their homes to power all of this AI, raising their electricity bill while at it.
And then there's the effect of AI in an increasingly tough workplace.
We were just talking about the metal layoffs, et cetera.
So it's not probably a huge surprise to everyone here that last week when former Google CEO Eric Schmidt took to the podium to speak to the graduating class at the University of Arizona, he brought up AI.
And things didn't go particularly
And Schmidt's not even the only speaker who has received this kind of response from graduating students, the very people who are supposedly wholeheartedly embracing this technology.
Real estate executive Gloria Caulfield was also booed after she referred to AI as the next industrial revolution during a commencement address at the University of Central Florida.
I am just beaming, you guys.
These are high-profile, wealthy executives who are entirely insulated, them, their families, their children, their grandchildren, from the effects of AI...
Now and future on the workplace, these people are not concerned about AI taking their jobs.
These people are not graduating into a market where everyone's going, I don't need an assistant.
Have you heard of OpenClaw?
Of course, everyone's flipping out at them.
There is an entire category of our population that doesn't know how they're going to get work experience to all of a sudden not be considered irrelevant by our tech overlords.
Of course, they're booing.
It's not an elastic market, and you're looking at the Iran war, and you're looking at rising gas prices.
People aren't changing things up during an election year historically.
There's so many reasons for that.
So these people are graduating into a market that I do not envy them for so many reasons.
To me, I'm a little bit like...