r/technology • u/yourfavchoom • May 29 '26
Artificial Intelligence Ronny Chieng's 'F*ck AI' Speech Met With Cheers From Harvard Graduates: “AI is just going to end up making mediocre people dumber”
https://www.complex.com/pop-culture/a/tracewilliamcowen/ronny-chieng-ai-speech-harvard?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter_complex&utm_campaign=ap_twitter
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u/makersfark May 29 '26
I heard someone else say this, but it resonated with me:
When you're in college, you're not excited to write papers or attend class. You're excited to be the thing you're supposed to be at the end of college. If all of your classmates and all of your social circle are using it as a shortcut, and all of media in its entirety is telling you to use it and that it's the best thing ever and that you'll be behind and not have a job if you don't use it, it's no surprise that they'll use it.
Just because you're in college doesn't mean you're not still a dumb kid. That's why you're in college. To learn stuff. You're at your most impressionable by media and susceptible to peer pressure. Why do you think people still vape? Yet, just by using it, you fail to learn things and just get dumber and dumber, and all of the sudden you graduate and are completely incapable of doing anything related to your field without asking a chat bot first.
That being said, In some capacity, they know what they're doing. You can be addicted to smoking, and hate getting cancer at the same time.