u/NAStrahl

THEY'RE IN DISGUISE, GUYS! 🤣🤣🤣

A new CNBC Generation Labs survey of over 1,000 US adults aged 18 to 34 reveals overwhelming distrust toward the executives running America’s leading AI companies, with the tech industry’s once-golden reputation among young people almost entirely eroded. Asked “who do you trust to act responsibly on AI?”, the vast majority of respondents said they don’t trust any of the nine executives named in the poll. Palantir CEO Alex Karp scored worst by far, with 81% selecting “don’t trust,” while Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella performed comparatively best, though even his “trust” score sat at just 35%.

The rest of the field fared similarly poorly. Peter Thiel drew distrust from 79% of respondents, while Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, and Sam Altman posted “don’t trust” figures of 71%, 70%, and 69%, respectively. These numbers reflect a dramatic reversal from a decade ago, when young adults were eagerly pursuing jobs at companies like Google and Apple, a shift the survey’s framing attributes to growing concerns over data privacy, the deterioration of once-useful tech platforms, and worries about erosion of democratic institutions tied to the industry’s outsized influence.

What makes the findings especially striking is how the executives compare to the technology they oversee. AI itself, despite being widely viewed with suspicion, actually scored better than the CEOs building it. Asked about AI’s impact on their lives, 45% of respondents said they expect it to hurt their careers, while 40% said the US government should regulate it. On data centers specifically, 60% said the industry’s aggressive construction pace should slow down, but even that skepticism doesn’t match the sheer scale of distrust aimed squarely at the executives themselves, suggesting young Americans have drawn a sharper line against the individuals leading AI companies than against the technology or infrastructure those companies are building.

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I don't trust Al to tell me what all the correct settings are or which drive I need to purchase that will be robust enough. It also wouldn't hurt to know how to install the drivers Valve released during setup and which software, if any, to avoid using, such as Wyse Registry Cleaner and IObit Driver Booster.

Will I need to worry about being able to update my copy of Windows on the drive using Windows Update? If it gets updates, will it only get some and not others, like feature updates?

This is important, because I'm not going to have another PC to use that will let me keep WindowsToGo fresh using software from the same people who make WinToUSB.