{"id":249789,"date":"2026-05-19T16:38:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T20:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/19\/graduates-are-booing-pep-talks-on-ai-at-college-commencements-technology\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T17:05:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T21:05:12","slug":"graduates-are-booing-pep-talks-on-ai-at-college-commencements-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/19\/graduates-are-booing-pep-talks-on-ai-at-college-commencements-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"Graduates are booing pep talks on AI at college commencements | Technology"},"content":{"rendered":"

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As artificial intelligence casts a shadow over career prospects, it is becoming an unwelcome subject at this season\u2019s college commencements. At several campuses, graduates have interrupted speakers with stadium-wide boos when the topic turned to AI.<\/p>\n

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt faced repeated jeers over the weekend during his keynote address to about 10,000 University of Arizona graduates on the rise of AI.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt will touch every profession, every classroom, every hospital, every laboratory, every person and every relationship you have,\u201d Schmidt said, as booing began to build in the audience.<\/p>\n

\u201cI know what many of you are feeling about that. I can hear you,\u201d Schmidt responded as the boos continued. \u201cThere is a fear in your generation that the future has already been written, that the machines are coming, that the jobs are evaporating \u2026 and I understand that fear.\u201d<\/p>\n

To students the topic felt tone deaf, said Olivia Malone, a 22-year-old University of Arizona graduate bound for law school.<\/p>\n

\u201cHis speech was incredibly disrespectful to students,\u201d said Malone. \u201cWe as students are discouraged from using it and penalized for using it. And then to have our speaker be the champion of AI is just like, OK? Why?\u201d<\/p>\n

Similar responses to keynote speakers who touched on AI at other universities highlight a pervasive sense of anxiety among today’s college students.<\/p>\n

Polls show growing concern that AI will doom career plans<\/h2>\n

Across campuses and in a multitude of recent surveys, students say they are trying to figure out which skills, majors and jobs won\u2019t be rendered useless by AI.<\/p>\n

About 70% of college students see AI as a threat to their job prospects, according to a 2025 poll by the Institute of Politics at the Harvard Kennedy School.<\/p>\n

A recent Gallup poll of Generation Z youth and adults, between ages 14 and 29, found increasingly…<\/p>\n

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