"The rise of artificial intelligence is the next industrial revolution,” Caulfield declared - prompting the students in the audience to begin booing, getting louder and louder until Caulfield chuckled, turned to the other speakers, and asked, “What happened?” “Okay, I struck a chord,” she said. Caulfield then tried to resume her speech, saying, “Only a few years ago, AI was not a factor in our lives” - only to be interrupted again by the audience, this time by their loud cheers and applause."
"Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt faced a similar response when he brought up AI at a University of Arizona speech on Friday. In Schmidt's case, the pushback actually began before the speech itself, with some student groups calling for him to be removed as commencement speaker due to a lawsuit in which a former girlfriend and business partner accused Schmidt of sexual assault. (He has denied the allegations.) According to a local news report, the booing began even before Schmidt took the stage."
"But Schmidt also got loud boos when he told students, “You will help shape artificial intelligence.” The booing was persistent enough that Schmidt tried to speak over it, insisting, “You can now assemble a team of AI agents to help you with the parts that you could never accomplish on your own. When someone offers you a seat on the rocket ship, you do not ask which seat, you just get on.”"
Several commencement speakers at American universities faced student pushback when artificial intelligence was raised. Gloria Caulfield, an executive at Tavistock Development Company, described AI as the next industrial revolution and said the current era involves profound change that can be exciting and daunting. Students booed and interrupted her, then later cheered and applauded after she acknowledged she had struck a chord. Eric Schmidt, former Google CEO, also encountered boos at a University of Arizona event after student groups protested his presence due to allegations he denied. When Schmidt told students they would help shape artificial intelligence, the booing persisted, and he urged them to assemble teams of AI agents and get on the “rocket ship.”
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