And then O what a glorious sight: graduate students boo every time former Google CEO Eric Schmidt mumbles AI blethers at their commencement. A fine display of free-speech traditions in action, and a healthy registration of disgust. Michelle Goldberg, writing in the NYT yesterday, gave some statistics around how little younger people are buying the slop mongers' hype. Why should they?

The confidence men busy pushing their AI masquerades into universities always write _as if _student demand for it is universal, urgent, instantly to be addressed. I’m not so sure. And why do they want us to be in such a hurry?