Speakers At College Commencement Ceremonies Are Being Met With Boos For Bringing Up AI

As artificial intelligence casts a shadow over career prospects, it is becoming an unwelcome subject at this season’s college commencements.

A graduation ceremony marred by an artificial intelligence malfunction at Glendale Community College in Arizona has drawn renewed attention to a risk the institution itself has previously warned about: that AI systems can produce inaccurate results with real-world consequences.

From the Dayton, Ohio, suburbs to boardrooms in Dallas, the employees fueling AT&T' s next wave of growth aren't fresh-faced college graduates with expensive four-year degrees.

As Americans grow increasingly worried that AI will wipe out millions of jobs and create a permanent new underclass, tech billionaires are rushing to reassure us not to worry – the subtext being: please don’t bring out the anti-AI pitchforks.