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Leah Feiger

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513 total appearances

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Uncanny Valley | WIRED
Why Is Meta In Crisis?; Google Search’s Makeover; AI Gets Booed by Graduates

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.

Uncanny Valley | WIRED
Why Is Meta In Crisis?; Google Search’s Makeover; AI Gets Booed by Graduates

And then there's the effect of AI in an increasingly tough workplace.

Uncanny Valley | WIRED
Why Is Meta In Crisis?; Google Search’s Makeover; AI Gets Booed by Graduates

We were just talking about the metal layoffs, et cetera.

Uncanny Valley | WIRED
Why Is Meta In Crisis?; Google Search’s Makeover; AI Gets Booed by Graduates

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.

Uncanny Valley | WIRED
Why Is Meta In Crisis?; Google Search’s Makeover; AI Gets Booed by Graduates

And things didn't go particularly

Uncanny Valley | WIRED
Why Is Meta In Crisis?; Google Search’s Makeover; AI Gets Booed by Graduates

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.

Uncanny Valley | WIRED
Why Is Meta In Crisis?; Google Search’s Makeover; AI Gets Booed by Graduates

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.

Uncanny Valley | WIRED
Why Is Meta In Crisis?; Google Search’s Makeover; AI Gets Booed by Graduates

I am just beaming, you guys.

Uncanny Valley | WIRED
Why Is Meta In Crisis?; Google Search’s Makeover; AI Gets Booed by Graduates

These are high-profile, wealthy executives who are entirely insulated, them, their families, their children, their grandchildren, from the effects of AI...

Uncanny Valley | WIRED
Why Is Meta In Crisis?; Google Search’s Makeover; AI Gets Booed by Graduates

Now and future on the workplace, these people are not concerned about AI taking their jobs.

Uncanny Valley | WIRED
Why Is Meta In Crisis?; Google Search’s Makeover; AI Gets Booed by Graduates

These people are not graduating into a market where everyone's going, I don't need an assistant.

Uncanny Valley | WIRED
Why Is Meta In Crisis?; Google Search’s Makeover; AI Gets Booed by Graduates

Have you heard of OpenClaw?

Uncanny Valley | WIRED
Why Is Meta In Crisis?; Google Search’s Makeover; AI Gets Booed by Graduates

Of course, everyone's flipping out at them.

Uncanny Valley | WIRED
Why Is Meta In Crisis?; Google Search’s Makeover; AI Gets Booed by Graduates

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.

Uncanny Valley | WIRED
Why Is Meta In Crisis?; Google Search’s Makeover; AI Gets Booed by Graduates

Of course, they're booing.

Uncanny Valley | WIRED
Why Is Meta In Crisis?; Google Search’s Makeover; AI Gets Booed by Graduates

It's not an elastic market, and you're looking at the Iran war, and you're looking at rising gas prices.

Uncanny Valley | WIRED
Why Is Meta In Crisis?; Google Search’s Makeover; AI Gets Booed by Graduates

People aren't changing things up during an election year historically.

Uncanny Valley | WIRED
Why Is Meta In Crisis?; Google Search’s Makeover; AI Gets Booed by Graduates

There's so many reasons for that.

Uncanny Valley | WIRED
Why Is Meta In Crisis?; Google Search’s Makeover; AI Gets Booed by Graduates

So these people are graduating into a market that I do not envy them for so many reasons.

Uncanny Valley | WIRED
Why Is Meta In Crisis?; Google Search’s Makeover; AI Gets Booed by Graduates

To me, I'm a little bit like...