Grains of salt, because Business Insider and all, but it’s a graduation speech, being talked up and celebrated for a moment is kind of the point. Folks graduating right now are grappling with the questions of if they just wasted four years of their lives and took on 5 figure amounts of debt preparing for a job that might disappear overnight because some middle manager or CEO thought that AI could do it. So I don’t find it all that surprising that “[AI is here, deal with it]” from the CEO of one of the most famous tech companies on the planet (also in the process of cramming AI into every possible nook and cranny) has been received differently than “You have AI — actual intelligence”.

Reminds me of the short film Slaughterbots from a while back. 7 years later and it doesn’t seem all that much like fiction anymore…