{"id":215016,"date":"2026-05-17T12:32:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T16:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/17\/if-youre-giving-a-commencement-speech-in-2026-maybe-dont-mention-ai\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T12:35:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T16:35:10","slug":"if-youre-giving-a-commencement-speech-in-2026-maybe-dont-mention-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/17\/if-youre-giving-a-commencement-speech-in-2026-maybe-dont-mention-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"If you\u2019re giving a commencement speech in 2026, maybe don\u2019t mention AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2026\/05\/17\/if-youre-giving-a-commencement-speech-in-2026-maybe-dont-mention-ai\/\">If you\u2019re giving a commencement speech in 2026, maybe don\u2019t mention AI<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2026\/05\/17\/if-youre-giving-a-commencement-speech-in-2026-maybe-dont-mention-ai\/\">https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2026\/05\/17\/if-youre-giving-a-commencement-speech-in-2026-maybe-dont-mention-ai\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-17 12:32:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"techcrunch.com\">techcrunch.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a respectful and generalized summary of the article with five key points:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; During commencement, speakers like Gloria Caulfield and former Google CEO Eric Schmidt encountered resistance from some students when discussing artificial intelligence (AI).<br \/>\n&#8211; Students expressed skepticism and even booing when AI was mentioned, reflecting broader anxieties about the impact of AI on the job market.<br \/>\n&#8211; Eric Schmidt faced additional challenges getting his point across as his speech coincided with protests about pending sexual assault allegations against him though he denied the accusations.<br \/>\n&#8211; Despite the pushback, some believe students\u2019 pessimism extends beyond AI to broader fears about job security, climate change, and political instability.<br \/>\n&#8211; The speeches highlighted a recurrent theme of resilience, emphasizing that students must navigate an uncertain, complex future shaped by various, often unsettling, developments.<\/p>\n<p>If you have more specific information or need further elaboration, let me know.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019re giving a commencement speech in 2026, maybe don\u2019t mention AI https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2026\/05\/17\/if-youre-giving-a-commencement-speech-in-2026-maybe-dont-mention-ai\/ Publish Date:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":215017,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/university.jpg?resize=1200,641","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-215016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215016"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215016"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":215018,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215016\/revisions\/215018"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}