India, June 15 -- Indian-American billionaire Vinod Khosla has slammed Stanford students who staged a walkout during Sundar Pichai's speech - mistakenly believing that they were protesting the advent of artificial intelligence and how it would impact jobs for fresh graduates.

A section of Stanford's graduating class did walk out during Pichai's speech on June 14, but the reason was not AI. Instead, the students were protesting Google's contract with the Israeli government.

Vinod Khosla, founder of Khosla Ventures, took to the social media platform X to call out students who walked out during Stanford's commencement ceremony. He claimed that AI would actually benefit humanity and called the protests against it short-sighted and selfish....