{"id":51105,"date":"2026-05-24T16:41:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T16:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/google-ceo-sundar-pichai-says-booing-graduates-will-shape-ais-future-and-live-with-its-consequences\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T16:41:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T16:41:13","slug":"google-ceo-sundar-pichai-says-booing-graduates-will-shape-ais-future-and-live-with-its-consequences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/google-ceo-sundar-pichai-says-booing-graduates-will-shape-ais-future-and-live-with-its-consequences\/","title":{"rendered":"Google CEO Sundar Pichai says booing graduates will shape AI&#8217;s future \u2014 and live with its consequences"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.insider.com\/6a11e90151ede568c7e180f6?format=jpeg\" alt=\"Sundar Pichai\"\/><figcaption>Google CEO Sundar Pichai is scheduled to deliver the commencement speech at Stanford next month.<\/p>\n<p>Bloomberg\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>Sundar Pichai is scheduled to speak at Stanford University&#039;s commencement next month.<\/li>\n<li>Students have booed several execs this year for talking about AI in their speeches.<\/li>\n<li>Pichai is one of the leaders of the AI boom, but says people are &quot;rightfully&quot; anxious.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Tech CEOs have a lot to manage, from earnings calls and board meetings to competition and employee morale.<\/p>\n<p>Now, in the age of AI, they also need a &quot;boo strategy.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>This year, graduates have heckled some executives during commencement speeches after the corporate leaders made optimistic comments about AI, reflecting a growing anxiety among students about to enter the job market.<\/p>\n<p>Students booed former Google CEO Eric Schmidt at the University of Arizona, while Big Machine Records CEO Scott Borchetta drew backlash at Middle Tennessee State University after he discussed AI&#039;s impact on music and media.<\/p>\n<p>So the hosts of the tech podcast &quot;Hard Fork&quot; recently asked Google CEO Sundar Pichai what his &quot;boo strategy&quot; will be when he gives the commencement speech at Stanford University next month.<\/p>\n<p>For Pichai, the challenge is real: He leads one of the companies driving the AI boom at a time when many graduates worry the technology could evaporate the jobs they&#039;re about to pursue.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I&#039;ve always been extraordinarily optimistic about the next generation,&quot; he told the hosts. AI, he said, doesn&#039;t change that. &quot;My goal would be to share my experiences, and that&#039;s what I&#039;m looking to do.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;These graduates are actually both going to be a big part of driving that progress and also dealing with the impact,&quot; he added, referring to AI.<\/p>\n<p>It&#039;s possible Pichai will be met with a more receptive crowd at Stanford, which is in the heart of Silicon Valley and home to some of the most talked-about AI courses in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Still, the perception of AI among the public is low. A Pew Research Center study found that about half of Americans felt the increased prevalence of AI in their daily lives made them feel &quot;more concerned than excited.&quot; Many Americans across the country, meanwhile, are resisting new data centers in their communities, which are essential to powering AI products like chatbots.<\/p>\n<p>At least a dozen major companies have cited increased efficiency from AI as a factor in their decision to lay off employees this year. And AI has made job-seeking more difficult by prolonging the interview process. The unemployment rate for new grads reached a 4-year high at the start of 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Pichai told &quot;Hard Fork&quot; that people are &quot;rightfully&quot; anxious about what sort of future the technology will create. &quot;Humans aren&#039;t evolved to process that much change,&quot; he said, adding that the scale of the change is unlike anything the world has seen.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month at Carnegie Mellon University&#039;s commencement, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang made the case that AI will be a net positive for humanity, including for those newly starting their careers.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Now it&#039;s your time to realize your dreams,&quot; he told graduates. &quot;The timing could not be more perfect.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Read the original article on Business Insider<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google CEO Sundar Pichai is scheduled to deliver the commencement speech at Stanford next month. Bloomberg\/Getty Images Sundar Pichai is scheduled to speak at Stanford University&#039;s commencement next month. Students have booed several execs this year for talking about AI in their speeches. Pichai is one of the leaders of the AI boom, but says [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51106,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51105\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}