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Gen Z rage against the (AI) machine

May 18, 20261:09:20Watch on YouTube

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This Week In Startups is made possible by: Vanta - https://Vanta.com/TWIST Sentry - https://Sentry.io/TWIST Deel - https://Deel.com/TWIST Plaud - ⁠https://Plaud.ai/twist Today’s show: AI is the villain of the 2026 commencement cycle, with business luminaries — including Eric Schmidt — booed for discussing or praising the technology. As students graduate into a job market forcibly reshaped by AI, increasingly negative public polling on the potential impacts of artificial intelligence on society is clearly not missing the mark. Jason and Alex then discussed The Information’s reporting that An…