Gen Z is not booing AI. It is booing its own job market
Graduates from the class of 2026 are expressing concerns about their job prospects in light of advancements in artificial intelligence. Their boos during commencement speeches reflect anxiety over potential job losses rather than a rejection of technology itself. Data indicates that this cohort faces a significant risk of unemployment as AI increasingly takes over entry-level positions.
- ▪Eric Schmidt and Gloria Caulfield faced boos from graduates during their commencement speeches about AI and job markets.
- ▪New-college-graduate unemployment could reach 30% within two years due to AI absorbing entry-level jobs.
- ▪Goldman Sachs reported that approximately 16,000 US jobs are being lost to AI each month, disproportionately affecting Gen Z.
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document.getElementsByClassName('tnw-ad-wrapper')[1]?.classList?.add('ad-wrapper__growth-quarters'); Eric Schmidt stood at a lectern at the University of Arizona’s spring commencement and told a stadium full of graduates that the impact of artificial intelligence would be ‘larger, faster, and more consequential’ than anything they had so far lived through. The former Google chief executive was attempting, on the published account, to be reassuring. He was speaking about the great human capacity for adaptation. The boos started anyway. They were still going when Schmidt finished. Twelve days earlier, at the University of Central Florida, the real-estate executive Gloria Caulfield had used the phrase ‘the next industrial revolution’ in her own commencement speech.
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