Stanford Grads Walk Out on Google CEO Sundar Pichai
Around 100 to 200 graduates left the ceremony as protesters targeted Google’s $1.2 billion Project Nimbus contract, organizers said.
- On Sunday, Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai delivered the commencement speech at Stanford University as scores of graduates stood, booed, and walked out protesting Google's work with Israel.
- The protest centered on Project Nimbus, a $1.2 billion contract between Google, Amazon, and Israel that activists claim facilitates military operations in the Gaza Strip.
- In his address, Pichai urged graduates to 'choose optimism' and embrace hard choices, largely avoiding the artificial intelligence debate shadowing other tech-heavy commencement speeches this season.
- Similar protests erupted last month when students at the University in Arizona booed Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt during his commencement speech on artificial intelligence.
- Industry leaders including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei have warned that artificial intelligence could render entry-level jobs obsolete, fueling graduate anxiety amid over a dozen major company layoffs this year.
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Google's CEO gets the snub from pro-Palestine Stanford students
Hundreds of Pro-Palestine students walked out of Google’s CEO Sundar Pichai’s commencement speech at Stanford University in California. Google has backed Israel’s AI-powered genocide of Palestinians through Project Nimbus — a $1.2 billion contract to provide cloud computing services for the Israeli government and defence establishment. Journalist Erin Woo said that the students were heard booing, chanting “Free, free Palestine” and “shame on you…
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