{"id":216601,"date":"2026-05-19T12:45:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T16:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/19\/graduates-are-booing-pep-talks-on-ai-at-college-commencements\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T12:55:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T16:55:20","slug":"graduates-are-booing-pep-talks-on-ai-at-college-commencements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/19\/graduates-are-booing-pep-talks-on-ai-at-college-commencements\/","title":{"rendered":"Graduates are booing pep talks on AI at college commencements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ksat.com\/business\/2026\/05\/19\/graduates-are-booing-pep-talks-on-ai-at-college-commencements\/\">Graduates are booing pep talks on AI at college commencements<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ksat.com\/business\/2026\/05\/19\/graduates-are-booing-pep-talks-on-ai-at-college-commencements\/\">https:\/\/www.ksat.com\/business\/2026\/05\/19\/graduates-are-booing-pep-talks-on-ai-at-college-commencements\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-19 12:45:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.ksat.com\">www.ksat.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Growing Anxiety Among Graduates<\/strong>: Recent commencement speeches at several universities have faced significant resistance from graduates who are concerned about AI\u2019s impact on their future job prospects. Booing and jeering have become common reactions when speakers discuss the rise of AI.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Fear of Job Displacement<\/strong>: There is widespread anxiety among college students regarding whether AI will render their chosen careers obsolete. A poll from the Institute of Politics at the Harvard Kennedy School indicates that around 70% of students view AI as a threat to their job prospects.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Disreputable Speakers<\/strong>: Some keynote speakers, like former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and real estate executive Gloria Caulfield, have faced hostility during their commencement speeches because of their enthusiastic promotion of AI, exacerbating students&#8217; anxieties.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Mixed Reception of Positives<\/strong>: Speakers attempting to provide positive spin on AI\u2019s impact have not been well-received. For instance, Scott Borchetta, CEO of Big Machine Records, was booed when he spoke at Middle Tennessee State University about AI\u2019s influence on the music industry.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Controversial Selections<\/strong>: The choice of some speakers, such as Schmidt, has been contentious based on their involvement in high-profile controversies and their perceived motives behind promoting AI.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Tough Job Market Context<\/strong>: The current challenging job market for recent graduates intensifies their worries about AI potentially diminishing their employability, making discussions about AI during commencement particularly contentious.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Resistance to AI<\/strong>: An underlying sentiment of resistance towards AI is evident, with many colleges discouraging or penalizing students for using AI tools, which juxtaposes sharply with speakers\u2019 promotion of AI\u2019s benefits.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Graduates are booing pep talks on AI at college commencements https:\/\/www.ksat.com\/business\/2026\/05\/19\/graduates-are-booing-pep-talks-on-ai-at-college-commencements\/ Publish Date: 2026-05-19 12:45:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":216602,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/graham-media-group\/image\/upload\/f_auto\/q_auto\/c_thumb,w_700\/v1\/media\/gmg\/AKHALOTWXNHHFH2GCMD2JIJX44.jpg?_a=DATAg1fkZAA0","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216601"}],"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=216601"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":216603,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216601\/revisions\/216603"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}