Graduates Boo AI Evangelists at Commencement, signaling a new generation’s tech skepticism
TL;DR
Graduates across multiple universities boo and heckle speakers—ranging from former Google CEO Eric Schmidt to other tech leaders—who praise AI at commencements, arguing that AI promises threaten jobs, education, and critical thinking. The viral videos reflect a generation facing a bleak job market and rising environmental and societal concerns around AI, while also fueling activism against AI deployment and data-center projects.
- In desperate times, graduates find hope in humiliating tech CEOs theverge.com
- Advice for 2026 commencement speakers: Don't bring up AI NPR
- Why new grads are booing commencement speakers: There's an 'ambient anxiety that AI is going to make things dramatically worse' CNBC
- College Kids Don’t Want Your AI Bloomberg.com
- We need a new AI vocabulary Yahoo
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