{"id":273098,"date":"2026-06-14T20:27:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T00:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/14\/a-word-from-our-editor-in-chief-issue-23\/"},"modified":"2026-06-14T20:40:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T00:40:17","slug":"a-word-from-our-editor-in-chief-issue-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/14\/a-word-from-our-editor-in-chief-issue-23\/","title":{"rendered":"A word from our Editor-in-Chief: Issue 23"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com.au\/covers\/magazine\/a-word-from-our-editor-in-chief-issue-23\/\">A word from our Editor-in-Chief: Issue 23<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com.au\/covers\/magazine\/a-word-from-our-editor-in-chief-issue-23\/\">https:\/\/www.forbes.com.au\/covers\/magazine\/a-word-from-our-editor-in-chief-issue-23\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-14 20:27:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.forbes.com.au\">www.forbes.com.au<\/a><\/p>\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-when-a-recent-graduation-nbsp-speaker-at-the-university-of-central-florida-said-that-we-are-living-in-a-time-of-profound-change-and-that-the-rise-of-artificial-intelligence-is-the-next-industrial-revolution-nbsp-a-video-of-her-speech-quickly-went-viral-nbsp\">When a recent graduation\u00a0speaker at the University of Central Florida said that we are living in a time of profound change and that \u201cthe rise of artificial intelligence is the next industrial revolution\u201d,\u00a0a video of her speech quickly went viral.\u00a0<\/h5>\n<p><strong>This story features on the cover of Forbes Australia: Issue 23 .\u00a0Tap here to secure your copy.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Katrina Leslie\u00a0on the cover of Issue 23 (Forbes Australia)<\/p>\n<p>Not because\u00a0she\u2019d\u00a0made some profound statement \u2013 but because an unexpected chorus of boos erupted throughout the auditorium.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It was a visceral reaction from hundreds of students and an early sign of a growing backlash against AI. It\u00a0wasn\u2019t\u00a0an isolated incident. In the days that followed, several commencement speeches that lauded AI were met with similar reactions, including one by former Google CEO Eric Schmidt.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>While the intention of these speeches was, presumably, to\u00a0instil optimism in graduates about the possibilities of AI and the future ahead, many young people\u00a0aren\u2019t\u00a0feeling it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s\u00a0a sentiment that I also noticed at the recent\u00a0Forbes Women\u2019s Summit. One of the strongest audience reactions of the day came when neuroscientist Alexis Fernandez-Preiska\u00a0warned on stage that outsourcing creativity to AI is \u201cthe greatest disservice you can ever do for your brain.\u201d The room erupted in applause.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Fernandez-Preiska\u00a0went on to explain that when people rely on AI to think creatively for them, they are effectively telling their brains they are incapable of doing it themselves. \u201cSo, when you do sit down to be creative, and you don\u2019t have AI by your side, you\u2019ll freak out,\u201d she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The reaction in the room, and increasingly in graduation halls around the world, signals this growing tension between the need to embrace AI and the need to protect what makes us human.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On one hand, there\u2019s huge optimism. Before the Summit, we surveyed more than 500 attendees, and by a significant margin, the&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com.au\/covers\/magazine\/a-word-from-our-editor-in-chief-issue-23\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A word from our Editor-in-Chief: Issue 23 https:\/\/www.forbes.com.au\/covers\/magazine\/a-word-from-our-editor-in-chief-issue-23\/ Publish Date: 2026-06-14 20:27:00 Source Domain: www.forbes.com.au&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":273099,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.forbes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Forbes_23_Cover.jpg?w=790","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-273098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273098"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273098"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":273100,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273098\/revisions\/273100"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}