The commencement speech that shook the world

There he was, the man at the helm of innovation. Eric Schmidt, the former CEO of Google. The man who once said, google doesn't need to record your conversation, it already knows everything about you. Yet he didn't see this one coming. In his speech, he looked clear-eyed into the crowd of graduates and told them that AI is inevitable. There was a group of people who will have a hard time joining the workforce. Companies keep using AI as the excuse for laying off workers. Dario keeps telling us by next year, AI will take over all jobs and there is nothing we can do. They will have nothing, and they better embrace it and be happy. Well, they will have a school loan, but that’s it. If you were an external observer, maybe an alien watching humanity from a distance, you would think that AI is a new species that emerged from a lake and is taking over the world. You would never tell that the people spreading this fear are also the ones selling the tool that they swear will turn us all into…