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X users criticize AI entrepreneur Beff Jezos for framing his McGill and Waterloo background as escape from Canadian socialism while advocating U.S. residency and anti-immigration policies

Critics also cite his Google experience and 2022 e/acc thread accepting extinction risks.

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"but im a white guy working on ai" you can only fucking lol at something so incomprehensibly ignorant and out of touch let me get this straight– you were born and raised in quebec, and had the good fortune to study at mcgill - literally one of the world's best universities - for less than $5000 a year. then you did graduate studies at waterloo - canada's top school for computer science, and earned a masters in maths and a phd there. you then went on to move to America, work for Google, and later started your own ai company. and the narrative you want to weave around your upbringing and training is that you ESCAPED canadian socialism? so the socialism was good enough for you to grow up safe, have healthcare, receive a literal world-class education that helped you into one of the top technology firms in the world, but is also so bad that america has a moral imperative to ensure you, a technologist working there, should be granted permanent residency. and if your lack of gratitude for your upbringing wasnt enough, you were promoting a presidential candidate who was vehemently opposed to immigration – while you, an immigrant, were staying in their country with a temporary visa. i guess you can be smart enough to work on ai and quantum computing but still be dumb enough to not only think these things, but actually post them on twitter expecting sympathy

7:33 AM · May 23, 2026 View on X
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