Billionaire Eric Schmidt Wants More AI Tech AND More Immigration

Tech Billionaire Eric Schmidt is rejecting any immigration reforms that would help Americans cope with the mass layoffs being caused by Artificial Intelligence technology.

“America is at its best when we are the country that ambitious people want to come to,” the tech-investor and political donor told graduates at the University of Arizona on Sunday as they booed his call for them to embrace AI:

Choose equality. Choose a diversity of perspectives… including the perspective of the immigrant who has so often been the person who came to this country and made it better.

“I can hear you, there is a fear,” he said amid loud booing.

“It’s perfectly natural that businesses want both AI to improve productivity and immigration to keep labor cheap, but as a policy matter, they need to choose one or the other,” said Mark Krikorian, director of the D.C.-based Center for Immigration Studies.