"Eric Schmidt gave the commencement speech to the graduating class at the University of Arizona on Sunday, and his line "The question is whether you will have shaped artificial intelligence" was met with a loud chorus of boos and jeering, as The Guardian reports. Not for the first time: last week, students at the University of Central Florida also booed real estate executive Gloria Caulfield for calling AI "the next industrial revolution.""
"NBC's report on Schmidt's speech has a video clip that includes both reactions, as well as a similarly negative reception to pro-AI remarks by record producer Scott Borchetta, giving another commencement speech at Middle Tennessee State University. Borchetta is the boss of Big Machine, the former label of Taylor Swift, whose six-year battle with the company has its own compendious Wikipedia article."
"Earlier this month, we reported that both Fedora and Ubuntu were planning to include more AI. Since then, there has been sufficient negative sentiment from the Fedora community that the Fedora AI Developer Desktop Initiative community initiative proposal, approved at the start of May, is now blocked by two "-1" votes. One of these is from Justin Wheeler, who, as we noted, wrote a blog post about Fedora's AI-Assisted Contributions"
Students boo commencement remarks that frame artificial intelligence as a coming revolution. Eric Schmidt’s graduation speech at the University of Arizona drew loud jeers after he asked whether graduates would have shaped artificial intelligence. Similar negative reactions occurred at the University of Central Florida when Gloria Caulfield called AI the next industrial revolution. Scott Borchetta also received a similarly negative reception at Middle Tennessee State University. In parallel, Fedora and Ubuntu plans to include more AI faced backlash. A Fedora AI Developer Desktop Initiative proposal approved in early May was later blocked after two negative votes, reflecting negative sentiment within the Fedora community.
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