"We thought that we were adding stones to a cathedral of knowledge that humanity had been constructing for centuries, but the world we built turned out to be more complicated than we anticipated, Schmidt said. The same tools that connect us also isolate us. The same platforms that gave everyone a voice like you're using now degraded the public square, he added, referring to the polarization within democracies."
"Schmidt said that information technologies, including AI, had unsettled young people. That was not the plan, but it happened, he said. Shouting and jeers against Schmidt's talk started when he acknowledged fears that AI threatened to deprive people now entering the workforce of a future."
"I know what many of you are feeling about that, Schmidt said. I can hear you. There is a fear. There is a fear in your generation that the future has already been written, that the machines are coming, that the jobs are evaporating, that the climate is breaking, that politics are fractured, and that you are inheriting a mess that you did not create."
"He acknowledged that their fears are rational and encouraged them to adapt and to shape how it will be used in the future rather than for that shape them. The question is not whether AI will shape the world. It will, Schmidt said. The question is whether you will"
Eric Schmidt spoke to up to 10,000 graduating University of Arizona students about how modern technology affects society. He traced technology’s evolution from laptops that democratized knowledge and enabled prosperity to smartphones, the internet, and social media. He said the tools that connect people also isolate them, and that platforms that gave everyone a voice degraded the public square through polarization in democracies. He stated that information technologies, including AI, unsettled young people and that this outcome was not intended. Students booed when he acknowledged fears that AI could remove future jobs. He said those fears are rational and urged students to adapt and shape how AI is used rather than letting it shape them.
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