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qwant news | Artificial Hype, Authentic Resistance

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Students at recent commencement ceremonies are openly booing speakers who glorify artificial intelligence, signaling a growing backlash against the techno‑utopian hype promoted by Big Tech. The article argues that the current wave of AI tools—mostly large language models—are marketing constructs far from true human or artificial general intelligence, lacking emotional understanding, moral judgment, and often producing harmful outcomes. It links this over‑optimism to a modern form of digital eugenics, warning that biased algorithms can reinforce historic patterns of scientific racism and elitist control. The piece also highlights the economic bubble surrounding AI automation, noting that most companies see little return on AI investments and that costly, error‑prone systems are already disrupting education and healthcare. Ultimately, the youth’s anger is framed as a justified response to an industry that overpromises, underdelivers, and jeopardizes both jobs and the environment while ignoring the fundamental limitations of the technology.

Read more: https://www.truthdig.com/articles/artificial-hype-authentic-resistance/

#GloriaCaulfield #EricSchmidt #ElonMusk #BigTech #artificialintelligence #MarcAndreessen

‘F*** this guy’: #Graduation speakers keep getting booed for talking about #ArtificialIntelligence

Commencement speakers want new graduates to feel optimistic about artificial intelligence — instead students are booing. New grads tell Josh Marcus that their fury about doddering policymakers and looming layoffs should be listened to

Saturday 23 May 2026 13:54 BST

"From coast to coast, commencement speakers have faced an audience of booing graduates each time they bring up artificial intelligence.

"The boos came when music executive #ScottBorchetta told the grads at Middle Tennessee State University, 'It’s a tool. Make it work for you.' The capped-and-gowned University of Central Florida crowd jeered when real estate executive #GloriaCaulfield called #AI the 'next industrial revolution.'

"But no one got it worse than former #Google CEO #EricSchmidt, whose May 15 speech at the University of Arizona was booed, nearly without interruption, for minutes on end.

" 'It was honestly one of the most surreal experiences,' Bailey Ekstrom, 21, an economics and political science graduate who was in the crowd, told The Independent. She had never seen campus opinion so unified, a mini-referendum suggesting the generation inheriting the post-AI world isn’t all that thrilled about it."

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/ai-college-graduation-eric-schmidt-google-b2981383.html

#ClassOf2026 #AISucks #DatacentersSuck

Slate Magazine | Something Strange Is Happening at College Graduations Across the Country by Nitish Pahwa

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The article reports that graduates of the Class of 2026 are openly rejecting AI hype, repeatedly booing speakers who mention artificial intelligence at commencement ceremonies—from a UCF vice‑president warning of an “AI industrial revolution” to industry leaders like Scott Borchetta, Eric Schmidt and others. Having entered college as ChatGPT went mainstream, these students have spent years witnessing relentless AI promotion alongside its perceived downsides: threatened job prospects, biased algorithms, climate and social‑trust concerns, privacy‑invasive deepfakes, and a commodified gig economy. Consequently, many view AI not as a productivity boost but as a looming impediment to their futures, expressing anger and skepticism toward “AI‑savvy” authority figures, while only those who acknowledge the technology’s limitations and emphasize a human touch—such as Delta CEO Ed Bastian—receive applause. The piece underscores a growing generational backlash against AI’s promises amid uncertainty about employment, ethics, and societal impact.

Read more: https://slate.com/technology/2026/05/ai-college-graduation-speakers-eric-schmidt.html

#NitishPahwa #EricSchmidt #Artificialintelligence #college #highered #GloriaCaulfield #ScottBorchetta #EdBastian

Boston.com | Graduates are booing pep talks on artificial intelligence at college commencements by Associated Press

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Graduates at several universities erupted in boos when speakers, including former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, highlighted artificial intelligence at commencement, viewing the topic as tone‑dead amid growing anxiety that AI will jeopardize their job prospects; polls show about 70 % of college students see AI as a threat, and a recent Gallup survey found rising anger and declining optimism about the technology among Gen Z, while a weak job market—unemployment for recent graduates at a 12‑year high—has intensified fears that AI could render many skills and majors obsolete, prompting students to question the relevance and motives of speakers championing AI.

Read more: https://www.boston.com/news/education/2026/05/19/graduates-are-booing-pep-talks-on-artificial-intelligence-at-college-commencements-ai/

#EricSchmidt #education #technology #GloriaCaulfield #ScottBorchetta #ChrisDuffey #OliviaMalone #SamiWargo #JeffreyEpstein

BBC News | Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt booed by graduates at mention of AI

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Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt was booed by graduates at the University of Arizona’s commencement when he warned that artificial intelligence would reshape the world, an incident that highlights growing campus anxiety about AI’s impact on jobs and education; similar jeers greeted other speakers such as a real‑estate executive at the University of Central Florida and a music‑industry CEO at Middle Tennessee State University, reflecting a broader unease among students who view AI as both a threat to their future and a barrier to intellectual development, prompting many to shift their studies toward critical‑thinking and human‑centric fields, while recent polls show roughly half of American adults are more concerned than excited about AI’s expanding role in daily life.

Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce8pqd54qneo?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rss

#EricSchmidt #Google #ArizonaUniversity #GloriaCaulfield #CentralFlorida #ScottBorchetta #BigMachine #MiddleTennessee #LuminaFoundation #PewResearch #

Jezebel | Congratulations to UCF Grads for Booing Their AI-Obsessed Commencement Speaker by Claire Guinan

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The University of Central Florida’s 2026 graduating class famously booed their commencement speaker, Gloria Caulfield, each time she praised artificial intelligence, turning the ceremony into a viral moment that highlighted a clash between AI‑enthusiastic corporate rhetoric and a cohort of arts‑focused graduates facing a tough job market. Caulfield, a VP at real‑estate developer Tavistock, repeatedly touted AI as the next industrial revolution, likening it to the internet’s transformative impact, prompting audible boos and occasional cheers as students reacted to clichés and felt she was out of touch with their concerns. The incident underscored the graduates’ skepticism toward AI’s promises and their readiness to challenge “AI supervillains,” earning them both applause and a tongue‑in‑cheek congratulations for “seizing the day” on their own terms.

Read more: https://www.jezebel.com/congratulations-to-ucf-grads-for-booing-their-ai-obsessed-commencement-speaker

#UCF #GloriaCaulfield #JeffBezos #AI #IndustrialRevolution