The students booing AI aren’t Luddites
# Summary College graduates are booing commencement speakers who bring up artificial intelligence, showing that young people aren't simply afraid of new technology—they have real, thoughtful concerns about it. The rejections are happening across multiple universities and even when speakers like former Google CEO Eric Schmidt try to acknowledge these worries, students still push back. This suggests that dismissing student skepticism as outdated "Luddite" thinking misses the point of what's actually bothering them about AI.
It’s graduation week, which means the emissaries of the nation’s elite are now descending onto college campuses to deliver the much-discussed and, they hope, indelibly quotable college commencement address. These speeches are their own sort of literary genre. The celebrities, politicians, and ti
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