Pichai, a Stanford alum, did not respond to the BBC’s request for comment.<\/p>\n
The exact number of students who walked out of the graduation remains unclear, though SFGate estimated it was around 200. <\/p>\n
It is also not clear if all the students who left were motivated by the same cause, as some were seen waving Palestinian flags.<\/p>\n
The protests against graduation speakers in the US this year showed the broader unease on campuses about AI: Speakers who mention AI are increasingly being met with hostility from students.<\/p>\n
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt was booed by students as he spoke about the rise of<\/a> AI<\/a> during his speech at the University of Arizona’s graduation ceremony in May, underscoring growing anxiety over AI’s impact on jobs.<\/p>\n “I know what many of you are feeling about that. I can hear you,” Schmidt told graduates as jeers rang out at the venue during remarks comparing today’s AI boom to the rise of computers four decades ago.<\/p>\n Gloria Caulfield, a real estate executive, saw a similar reception at the University of Central Florida: “The rise of artificial intelligence is the next industrial revolution,” she said as the crowd booed.<\/p>\n At the mention of AI at Middle Tennessee State University commencement, Scott Borchetta, CEO of Big Machine Records, was also met with jeers.<\/p>\n His response to graduates: “Deal with it, like I said, it’s a tool.”<\/p>\n Additional reporting by Lily Jamali<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pichai, a Stanford alum, did not respond to the BBC’s request for comment. The exact number of students…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":640138,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-640137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=640137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640137\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/640138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=640137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=640137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=640137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}