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Students Boo Commencement Speaker After She Calls AI the ‘Next Industrial Revolution’
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this post was submitted on 12 May 2026
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Honestly, she isn’t wrong.
However, the Industrial Revolution was a step forward, the AI revolution is most likely a great filter event. Industrialized Stupidity at Scale; Buliding giant data centers and turbo-charging climate change so some billionaires can race to see who can be the first trillionaire
Edit: I think a lot of you skimmed what I wrote and didn’t actually READ it. Yes AI bad, I agree.
And those saying the Industrial Revolution was bad (it was, to a group. But you would not be bitching on the Internet without it.)
We can agree not everything is 100% good/bad right? Like yes, the Industrial Revolution was bad for the workers at the time, but at the same time, you wouldn’t have the phone in your hand without it. You wouldn’t have the computer on your desk without it. Hell you probably wouldn’t have your bicycle/car whatever without it.
Luckily with the “AI revolution” we’ll all probably die from the Climate Change, World War 3 and world wide Economic collapse before we get to an equilibrium point.
Without the industrial revolution I wouldn't even exist; setting aside the butterfly effect of my parents never having met because they're from different parts of the country for a moment I owe my existence to modern medicine, which would not exist without industrialization.