{"id":217310,"date":"2026-05-20T11:27:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T15:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/20\/the-sound-of-graduating-from-college-in-the-ai-summer-of-2026-boo\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T11:35:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T15:35:09","slug":"the-sound-of-graduating-from-college-in-the-ai-summer-of-2026-boo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/20\/the-sound-of-graduating-from-college-in-the-ai-summer-of-2026-boo\/","title":{"rendered":"The sound of graduating from college in the AI summer of 2026: boo!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/2026\/05\/20\/the-sound-of-graduating-from-college-in-the-ai-summer-of-2026-boo\/\">The sound of graduating from college in the AI summer of 2026: boo!<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/2026\/05\/20\/the-sound-of-graduating-from-college-in-the-ai-summer-of-2026-boo\/\">https:\/\/fortune.com\/2026\/05\/20\/the-sound-of-graduating-from-college-in-the-ai-summer-of-2026-boo\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-20 11:27:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"fortune.com\">fortune.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>At several college commencements, graduates have expressed their anxiety about artificial intelligence (AI) by booing speakers who bring up the topic of AI&#8217;s impact on job prospects.<\/li>\n<li>Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt faced jeers during his keynote address to University of Arizona graduates when he discussed AI potentially affecting every aspect of life and job markets.<\/li>\n<li>Surveys from the Harvard Kennedy School&#8217;s Institute of Politics and Gallup show that a majority of college students view AI as a job threat and that younger generations are increasingly wary of its implications.<\/li>\n<li>Despite attempts by speakers like Gloria Caulfield and Scott Borchetta to frame AI as a beneficial tool, reactions from students at various universities have been largely negative.<\/li>\n<li>Part of the negative sentiment toward AI during commencement speeches can be linked to the existing tough job market for new graduates, which exacerbates students\u2019 fears about their future careers.<\/li>\n<li>Some students felt even more disheartened by AI-related content at their graduations, seeing it as an unwelcome reminder of the tough job prospects facing their cohort.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sound of graduating from college in the AI summer of 2026: boo! https:\/\/fortune.com\/2026\/05\/20\/the-sound-of-graduating-from-college-in-the-ai-summer-of-2026-boo\/ Publish&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":217311,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/fortune.com\/img-assets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/AP26139558287045.jpg?resize=1200,600","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-217310","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\/217310"}],"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=217310"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":217312,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217310\/revisions\/217312"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}