{"id":219072,"date":"2026-05-23T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/23\/why-college-students-are-booing-ai\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T07:15:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T11:15:20","slug":"why-college-students-are-booing-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/23\/why-college-students-are-booing-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"Why College Students Are Booing AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/ideas\/2026\/05\/ai-graduation-speeches-booing\/687266\/\">Why College Students Are Booing AI<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/ideas\/2026\/05\/ai-graduation-speeches-booing\/687266\/\">https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/ideas\/2026\/05\/ai-graduation-speeches-booing\/687266\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-23 07:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.theatlantic.com\">www.theatlantic.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here are 6 key points summarizing the article:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; College students have booed commencement speakers who mentioned artificial intelligence, with incidents at universities including the University of Central Florida, University of Arizona, and Middle Tennessee State University.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; The public and media interpreted the boos as a sign of students&#8217; general opposition to AI, but the author cautions against jumping to conclusions. <\/p>\n<p>&#8211; The author argues that AI just exposes wider issues within higher education, like bureaucratic institutions, overemphasis on achievement, and a culture of cutting corners.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Scott Borchetta, the commencement speaker at Middle Tennessee State University who was booed, framed AI like streaming did for the music industry &#8211; an unwelcome but powerful force that must be adapted to, not resisted.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; The author suggests the boos likely express frustration with the changing creative landscape in the 21st century, not simply opposition to AI per se. <\/p>\n<p>&#8211; In summary, the author believes oversimplified narratives about &#8220;students hating AI&#8221; ignore the complex, systemic issues at play that the technology just highlights.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why College Students Are Booing AI https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/ideas\/2026\/05\/ai-graduation-speeches-booing\/687266\/ Publish Date: 2026-05-23 07:00:00 Source Domain: www.theatlantic.com Here&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":219073,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.theatlantic.com\/thumbor\/9NZ8wO3T-S7WpBh-cQAVU3J4iZ4=\/0x53:1279x719\/1200x625\/media\/img\/mt\/2026\/05\/CollegeBoos2\/original.gif","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-219072","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\/219072"}],"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=219072"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":219074,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219072\/revisions\/219074"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}