Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt booed by graduates at mention of AI

Eric Schmidt, the architect of Google's dominance in the digital age, faced an unexpected rebuke at a graduation ceremony when students booed his mention of artificial intelligence—a stark signal that Silicon Valley's optimistic AI evangelism is colliding with genuine anxiety among the generation inheriting its consequences. The moment underscores a widening generational divide over technology, where the executives who built the digital world now find themselves defending it to young people far more skeptical of progress without guardrails. For a figure long accustomed to deference in tech circles, the jeers served as a visceral reminder that AI's biggest boosters may be losing the argument with those facing its most uncertain future.

BBC·2h ago