{"id":216785,"date":"2026-05-19T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/19\/commencement-boos-for-ai-platitudes\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T17:15:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T21:15:09","slug":"commencement-boos-for-ai-platitudes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/19\/commencement-boos-for-ai-platitudes\/","title":{"rendered":"Commencement Boos for AI Platitudes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nautil.us\/commencement-boos-for-ai-platitudes-1280992\">Commencement Boos for AI Platitudes<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nautil.us\/commencement-boos-for-ai-platitudes-1280992\">https:\/\/nautil.us\/commencement-boos-for-ai-platitudes-1280992<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-19 17:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"nautil.us\">nautil.us<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Recent university commencement speeches by prominent figures like Eric Schmidt and Gloria Caulfield have portrayed artificial intelligence (AI) as the next major societal transformation, similar to the Industrial Revolution.<\/li>\n<li>Students are reacting negatively to these speeches, expressing concern over the implications of an AI advance for their future, including job displacement, climate impact, and societal disruption.<\/li>\n<li>Despite acknowledging the hype around AI&#8217;s transformative power, the article reflects on the historical drawbacks of previous technological revolutions like the Industrial Revolution, including economic inequality and environmental degradation.<\/li>\n<li>The text highlights current environmental concerns about AI data centers, such as increased local temperatures, high water usage, and significant CO2 emissions.<\/li>\n<li>There are warnings about broader societal issues arising from AI, hinting at potential biases, ethical concerns, and the impact on human consciousness.<\/li>\n<li>The author remains hopeful that humanity will find a sustainable and ethical use for AI, but cautions that uncritical acceptance without scrutiny of its negatives merits skepticism from graduates.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commencement Boos for AI Platitudes https:\/\/nautil.us\/commencement-boos-for-ai-platitudes-1280992 Publish Date: 2026-05-19 17:00:00 Source Domain: nautil.us Recent university&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":216786,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/lede-admin.nautil.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2026\/05\/Grant_HERO_8dbc4f.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-216785","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\/216785"}],"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=216785"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":216787,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216785\/revisions\/216787"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}