{"id":226596,"date":"2026-06-05T05:04:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T09:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/05\/opinion-its-no-wonder-grads-are-booing-their-commencement-speakers\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T05:45:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T09:45:19","slug":"opinion-its-no-wonder-grads-are-booing-their-commencement-speakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/05\/opinion-its-no-wonder-grads-are-booing-their-commencement-speakers\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion | It\u2019s No Wonder Grads Are Booing Their Commencement Speakers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/06\/05\/opinion\/graduation-speakers-ai-college-commencement.html\">Opinion | It\u2019s No Wonder Grads Are Booing Their Commencement Speakers<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/06\/05\/opinion\/graduation-speakers-ai-college-commencement.html\">https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/06\/05\/opinion\/graduation-speakers-ai-college-commencement.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-05 05:04:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.nytimes.com\">www.nytimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Commencement speakers promoting AI are facing boos from students who are skeptical of its implications.<\/li>\n<li>Many tech executives warn that AI could disrupt jobs and contribute to a shakier job market and increased unemployment, despite promising technological advancements.<\/li>\n<li>Eric Schmidt\u2019s speech to U. of Arizona graduates highlighted students&#8217; fears about AI replacing jobs and causing societal breakdowns.<\/li>\n<li>Critics argue that affluent speakers fail to understand the real issues of lack of social mobility, job insecurity, and the declining value of a college degree in securing middle-class life.<\/li>\n<li>According to a Harvard research paper, hiring for entry-level roles has been dropping at companies using AI, causing unease among job seekers.<\/li>\n<li>The speaker at Bennington College emphasized personal, practical advice and acknowledged young people&#8217;s justified anxieties about the job market, advocating for proactive engagement against AI\u2019s threats.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opinion | It\u2019s No Wonder Grads Are Booing Their Commencement Speakers https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/06\/05\/opinion\/graduation-speakers-ai-college-commencement.html Publish Date: 2026-06-05&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":226597,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2026\/06\/07\/multimedia\/07jongfast-wvcj\/07jongfast-wvcj-facebookJumbo.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226596","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\/226596"}],"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=226596"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":226598,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226596\/revisions\/226598"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}