{"id":253655,"date":"2026-05-23T17:29:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T21:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/23\/opinion-graduating-into-a-i-pessimism\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T17:45:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T21:45:09","slug":"opinion-graduating-into-a-i-pessimism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/23\/opinion-graduating-into-a-i-pessimism\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion | Graduating Into A.I. Pessimism"},"content":{"rendered":"

Opinion | Graduating Into A.I. Pessimism<\/a><\/p>\n

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I hate A.I. And I have always assumed that the backlash was coming. \u201cA.I. sucks!\u201d But I guess the thing that I didn\u2019t see coming was that it would be led by people even younger than me. \u201cArtificial intelligence.\u201d \u201cA.I.\u201d \u201cArtificial intelligence.\u201d You might have seen graduates booing the mention of A.I. at their commencements this spring. \u201cInteresting.\u201d \u201cWhew.\u201d You know, not cranky, middle-aged Luddites, but the people who are digital natives who have grown up with this technology. \u201cI ain\u2019t gonna trust A.I. no more.\u201d \u201cThe people who make this stuff are losers.\u201d A New York Times poll released in May showed that 47 percent of voters under 30 say that A.I. has been more bad than good, which is the highest percentage in any age bracket. It\u2019s been especially bad for new graduates, both because the entry-level jobs that they\u2019ve been training for are being systematically eviscerated by A.I., and when they try to apply for jobs, they\u2019re sending their r\u00e9sum\u00e9s out into this Kafkaesque A.I. netherworld where they have no idea if a real person is even going to look at it. \u201cIf we do see this economywide boost in productivity and economic growth from A.I., how are we going to make sure that working people are cut in on that for once?\u201d I spoke to Bharat Ramamurti. He pointed out that other countries have taken much more robust approaches to regulating A.I. And as a result, people seem to feel much more comfortable about it. So, for example, in the Nordic countries, where they have something called sectoral bargaining, people can kind of bargain on behalf of an entire profession. Whereas in the United States, where people already experience an enormous degree of precarity in their economic lives, A.I. has just been something that\u2019s made that a lot worse. \u201cDeal with it. Like I said, it\u2019s a tool.\u201d There have been a lot of A.I.-linked layoffs. \u201cThe A.I. models learn from having real \u2014 from watching really smart people do…<\/p>\n

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