Ronny Chieng Urges Harvard Graduates to Prioritize Human Skills Over Artificial Intelligence
June 15, 2026
“THE MISSION OF YOUR GENERATION IS TO DESTROY AI.”
Comedian and actor Ronny Chieng delivered a provocative message to Harvard graduates, urging them to prioritize human creativity, critical thinking, and real-world skills over dependence on artificial intelligence.
As AI rapidly transforms industries and daily life, Chieng’s challenge raises a bigger question: will technology empower the next generation or replace the skills that make us human?
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English Script:
Ronny Chieng: Fuck AI. fuck AI. Fuck AI. It’s stupid. It’s so stupid. Have you tried using it? It’s always wrong. Look, a lot of other respected graduation speakers in colleges around America are talking about you guys need to master AI for the future. Okay, I’m here to tell you the mission of your generation is to destroy AI, kill it. Have you heard how dumb people brag about how they use AI? They always like, hey, did you know that AI can now read my email, summarize it, and draft a response? Yeah. You know who else can do that? Me. I can do that. You can’t do that? How useless are you? Untalented people love bragging about using AI to help them draft their speeches and their scripts and their podcasts and their promo videos for UFC fights at the White House. Which, to be fair, even if they had filmed that for real, it would still have looked like AI. But what they’re missing is this: the creating is the fun part, and I know this platitude is almost worthy of AI, but the reason short cuts to skip to the end aren’t always good is because the journey isn’t just how we acquire skills, the journey is the point of all this. It is. I think your generation’s upcoming battle won’t be humans against AI. That’s at least two months away. It’s going to be people with substance versus people with shallow knowledge. It’s going to be mastery versus faking it. It’s going to be people with good taste versus tacky. I trust you will put in the work necessary to be on the right side of those battles.
