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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
For the working class, the industrial revolution was not a step forward. It took a lot of time, hard union work and political regulation to wrangle the beast that was the industrial revolution.
And nothing of was accomplished was done by asking nicely.