Recent Commencement Speeches Show Students Are Souring on AI. How Deep Is the Angst?
- On Sunday, University of Arizona graduates booed former Google CEO Eric Schmidt during his commencement address, with students objecting when he stated, "The question is not whether AI will shape the world. It will."
- Real estate executive Gloria Caulfield was jeered just days earlier at the University of Central Florida for calling artificial intelligence "the next industrial revolution" during her commencement speech.
- Glendale Community College president Tiffany Hernandez apologized on May 15 after an AI name-reading system malfunctioned during graduation, telling the crowd, "That is a lesson learned for us."
- While 57% of college students use AI tools weekly, health law professor Jacob Shelley characterizes student cheating as a survival tactic driven by fears of job displacement in a precarious market.
- Northeastern University professor Maitraye Das warns students feel a "corporate mouthpiece narrative" from tech CEOs, while Shelley argues, "The worst thing we could do is blame students here.
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Why new grads are booing commencement speakers: There's an 'ambient anxiety that AI is going to make things dramatically worse'
Recent commencement speakers including Google's Eric Schmidt have been booed for praising AI and encouraging students to use it as they embark on their careers.
Students Keep Booing AI During Commencement Speeches, and Honestly, They Might Be Right
It’s commencement speech season, and colleges across the country have trotted out one miserable, AI brain-rotted business loser after another so they can inevitably sing the praises of AI, their words getting drowned out by a spontaneous chorus of boos belted out from the crowd of young graduates who viscerally despise the technology. They know how thoroughly it’s ruining their generation, their brains, their job prospects, and their futures. Th…
AI name-reading goes wrong at graduation
A malfunction in an AI name-reading software led to boos from students at the Glendale Community College graduation ceremony. The AI appeared to show and say the wrong names when people came onto the stage as well as stopping showing names entirely at points on the livestream.
The speakers who mentioned it positively have been covered by whistles on several occasions, due to a growing and widespread hostility
AI system fails during college graduation in Arizona
GLENDALE, Ariz. (CNN, KYMA) - A technical glitch at a college commencement ceremony in Arizona left graduates and families frustrated. The issue: The school was using an artificial intelligence (AI) system to read the graduate's names as they crossed the stage, and the system malfunctioned. Students at Glendale Community College (GCC) worked so hard to get their diploma and graduate, and they say the school should have been better prepared. The …
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