During graduation ceremonies, multiple commencement speakers faced backlash and were booed by audiences for making remarks related to artificial intelligence in their speeches.
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt was booed by graduates during a commencement speech after he told them AI is inevitable and that being anti-AI is like being anti-immigrant. The author argues the booing was a form of human innovation and defiance that AI could not predict or replicate, highlighting the value of unexpected human responses in an age of automation.