Apple Co Founder Steve Wozniak Praised For Balanced Take On Artificial Intelligence At Graduation
Apple Co Founder Steve Wozniak Praised For Balanced Take On Artificial Intelligence At Graduation
Publish Date: 2026-05-21 00:42:00
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It’s become a bit of routine now. Tech titans coming to graduating ceremonies, lecturing on AI and getting heckled and booed by the student crowd. In the backdrop of this something very interesting just unfolded. Steve Wozniak – the co-founder of Apple and long-time friend and business partner of the late Steve Jobs – recently mentioned AI, albeit with a twist and got applauded instead of getting booed.
“You all have AI – actual intelligence,” he said, drawing cheers and applause from students gathered at the Michigan campus. Then came the punchline.
“My entire life in the technical world, I’ve been following people who were trying to figure out how to make a brain… and I was at a company where the engineers figured out how to make a brain,” he continued, before adding that it “takes nine months.” The joke landed, and so did the subtext of human intelligence over artificial intelligence.
At a time when AI has become the tech and corporate world’s biggest obsession and one of society’s biggest anxieties, Wozniak’s remarks felt noticeably different from the apocalyptic predictions, productivity pitches and job replacement warnings that seem to be everywhere. And perhaps that is exactly why students responded the way they did.
Over the past few months, several graduation ceremonies featuring prominent tech leaders have turned unexpectedly tense. Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, for instance, faced loud boos every time he brought up AI during his commencement speech at the University of Arizona last week.
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