Stanford grads booed Google CEO Sundar Pichai’s commencement speech—but not for the reason you think (opens in new tab)

At graduation ceremonies in 2026, the mere mention of artificial intelligence is enough to garner boos from the crowd. It happened at the University of Central Florida, where speaker Gloria Caulfield said the “rise of artificial intelligence is the next industrial revolution.” It happened at Middle Tennessee State University, where Big Machine Records CEO Scott Borchetta claimed “AI is rewriting production as we sit here.” And it happened at the University of Arizona, where former Google CEO ...