Instagram head Adam Mosseri on college students booing tech CEOs at graduation ceremonies: ‘I think we’re going ...'

Instagram head Adam Mosseri has said public frustration and anger over AI are likely to increase over the next few years, as concerns grow about job losses, content ownership and the impact of AI on creative industries. Speaking on the Colin and Samir podcast, Mosseri was asked about AI and the trend of college students booing tech CEOs at graduation ceremonies. Adam Mosseri replied saying that he expects to see more anger directed at AI, with the backlash extending beyond young people and content creators."It’s not only getting worse, it’s going to continue to get worse. I think we’re going to see more frustration and anger, some of it founded, some of it unfounded, over the next couple of years, and that’s going to make it hard for a lot of people, not just in the industry", he said.The reaction reflects wider concerns about how rapidly advancing AI tools could affect jobs, creative work and people's ability to keep up with technological change.Why people are increasingly frustrated with AIAdam Mosseri said the concerns surrounding AI go beyond the creative industry, with people worried about several aspects of the technology, including the possibility of losing their jobs and having their work used to train AI models."I think people are concerned about a lot of things. I think they’re concerned about owning their content and models getting trained on their content. I think they’re concerned— there’s people who are concerned about safety,” Mosseri said.“They’re concerned about job displacement, having AI displace whatever it is they do, if you’re a content creator or an engineer or a mathematician. I think there’s concerns about— I mean, fundamentally what I think it comes down to when you really have, like, a heart-to-heart with someone is a fear of being left behind in some way," he added.Mosseri also addressed how Instagram handles AI-generated content, distinguishing between the technology itself and the quality of the material being produced."There’s a lot of great AI content out there, there’s also a lot of AI slop. Do we rank AI content as well as we rank non-AI content? Probably not." He said the term AI "slop" is sometimes used too liberally, even as low-quality AI-generated material becomes a growing concern on social media platforms.Mosseri claimed Instagram does not rank AI creators differently. His comments suggest that the platform's approach to ranking content is linked to its quality rather than simply whether AI was used to create it.You use AI every day. Now get your AI Quotient. Take the AIQ test.