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Google CEO Sundar Pichai says graduates booing AI will shape its future — and live with its consequences
(www.businessinsider.com)
They hate it. Keep doing it.
this post was submitted on 24 May 2026
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Pichai has acheived next to nothing in 11 years at google that wasnt set up by previous leadershi-- all while keeping one of the largest and finest development teams in the world. No big product launches since 2015 when he too over. His "bard" AI effort crashed and burned. He can feel free to shut up and sit down. This pencil-dicked loser needs to do more listening than talking.
I have not large doubts that he and even some people in his position elsewhere can be replaced by AI. We could save a hell lot of money and be even more productive!
should replace CEOs with AI. They already talk like it anyway 🤷♂️
If you ask AI models to hallucinate what it would do as CEO, they usually say things that are environment and worker friendly, so it would be an improvement. Of course, they would train the CEO AI with nothing but Henry Ford speeches and books about the grindset.
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I see no reason to listen to what that guy has to say on this topic. He's only out for money and you can't believe a word he says and he's not an expert on it.
I look at everyone this way who is pushing AI shit. Suspicious as fuck.
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Blow his brains out
"Now it's your time to realize your dreams," he told graduates. "The timing could not be more perfect."
My dream is a world without ultracapitalist CEOs.
My dream is that when I search something on the web I get results 100% arranged on relevance with no commercially motivated rearranging of results. I also dream about ad free OSs, but that one came true for me back in 2005 (thanks Linux!).
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These folks just don't get it.
Let's put aside the discussion of whether their enthusiasm for the tech is merited or not, that is beside the point.
A commencement speaker is not there to talk about themselves or their favorite things. They are not there to teach the graduates anything or try to debate with the graduates.
A commencement speaker is there to honor and respect the graduates. To commend them on how far they have come and express optimism for what they will bring to society in the future. To make them feel appreciated for all they have done and are about to do. To feel inspired by what they have accomplished and the possibilities they bring to society. There has been and will be plenty of opportunity to educate, debate, and convince them, but this is not the venue for any of that.
Speaking about how "awesome" AI is and how they should be grateful for it is disrespecting them by failing to let them be the focus of their own graduation.
Also to rouse and inspire them.
"I'm working on a machine that will make you guys redundant, and then I'll make those booing me see. l'll make you all see." is hardly going to do that.
He would be much better off talking about how it was the stuff of science fiction not long ago, and how the graduates would be helping to push humanity forward, and make real, things that were previously considered impossible.
Some of the talks are also just really bad. I've seen a few, and they're little more than ads, or bragging about a thing the institution is doing that's unrelated to the graduates themselves. Saw one where the speaker was talking about how the college was using AI for various things. Why even have that in the graduates' speech?
it'll be hilarious when all this shitware collapses in on itself under the weight of the actual costs.
And the actual costs are starting to hit https://thenextweb.com/news/microsoft-claude-code-retreat-ai-cost
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It’s probably time for all of these billionaires to start being scared of consequences.
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"...and live with its consequences."
That's why they're booing, you moron.
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the only consequence of a world without ai is a smooth running industrial powerhouse that increases the value of its people and marketshares. continued use of ai reduces marketshare as well as production output while also shrinking the customer base
Yeah, it'll be like the impact on the ocean of someone taking their toe out of the water.
This sounds like a threat...
It definitely is a threat. Considering they are already planning on replacing entry level positions with AI they are directly attacking this new generation's livelihood.
So the fact that they get a little pushback for trying to end the cycle of employment is kind of a joke. This new generation should literally be at their throats if they knew what was good for them.
These graduates are actually both going to be a big part of driving that progress and also dealing with the impact," he added, referring to AI.
Yes. And a direct one at that.
Sounds like a threat.
"These graduates are actually both going to be a big part of driving that progress and also dealing with the impact," he added, referring to AI.
Out of context it sounds like a threat, but in connect it just sounds like vacuous CEO-speak, designed to respond to the question with some words while not actually answering the question.
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I’m so tired of hearing reports of what CEOs and billionaires say, as if it was news. These people aren’t smart, they just managed to stay on stop for longest. Quit giving them a platform.
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Now it's time to realize your dreams
Okay, get in!
"Humans aren't evolved to process that much change," he said, adding that the scale of the change is unlike anything the world has seen.
LOL, your massive plagiarism boxes are not that impressive, you pompous shit.
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That’s why they’re booing.
LLMs are really good at avoiding direct answers and spitting out words in sensible order that has absolutely no meanings.
You know who's also good at it? CEOs. Replace CEOS.
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This seems like a wonderful time to share this wonderful song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_mzYS-ET8o
oh fuck you
and your ai
fuck you elon, fuck you sam,
fuck you sundar pichai
you said the chance
that we all die is
around 1 in 5 – was that hype?
or are you really
generating genocide?
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I love how butthurt these people get when faced with criticism. Like fucking toddlers
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All the supposed top education developed Pichai and it failed. He still believes in the completely fucked up Caste System which leads to his view on AI. He wants to keep the lower class and make sure it remains that way.
Why do these colleges keep inviting these chucklefucks to speak to the various student bodies that clearly hate them? Humiliation tour or something? Or are they all completely up their own asses?
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If we crowd source a rocket i am told they don't ask questions when we offer them a seat. Oh wait, that was just another lie. I guess a guillotine would be more cost effective than a rocket...
this is the guy who is so bad at his job he tanked google and failed up
When he came in, Google was already out of new ideas.
From the banchode who had uBlock Origin killed from running on regular Chrome 150 because he thinks it's killing his profit from ads.
https://github.com/w3c/webextensions/issues/1000
r/uBlockOrigin/comments/1tlkaaw/goodbye_chrome_version_150_removes_the/
And of course throwing in AI shite into Chrome with that awfully huge 4gb unwanted addition.
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