University of Arizona graduates booed former Google CEO Eric Schmidt off his AI talking points during Friday's commencement address. The disruption was sustained and repeated, not a single outburst.
Schmidt called student fears about job loss, climate, and political dysfunction 'rational,' then kept pitching AI anyway. That contradiction is the story. A billionaire tech architect acknowledging the damage while defending the cause is worth sitting with.
Read the full piece for Schmidt's exact language and how the crowd responded at each turn. The tension between his concessions and his cheerleading is where this gets uncomfortable.
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