Stanford Grads Walk Out on Google CEO Sundar Pichai
Hundreds of graduates protested Google’s $1.2 billion Project Nimbus contract and joined an alternate commencement event, 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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As Sundar Pichai began his commencement address at Stanford University Sunday, more than 100 graduates staged a walkout, blowing whistles and chanting in protest of Google’s Project Nimbus contract with the Israeli government.Over 100 graduates walked out as Pichai took the stage at Stanford University Sunday, while others in the audience waved Palestinian flags, held banners, blew whistles, and wore keffiyehs in support of Palestine, as SFGate …
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