College grads are worried about AI overtaking the workforce

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🗓️ 21 May 2026

⏱️ 57 minutes

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The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – In an attempt to motivate the graduating class of 2026, Schmidt told them they have the power to shape how AI develops, a claim which was also met by laughter and boos. When Schmidt realized he was losing the students over their trepidation about AI, he resorted to buzzwords such as “diversity” and “immigrant.” But the students were not buying what he...

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0:00.0	If you hear of decide what American college graduates were most upset about today, what do you think it would be?
0:32.5	What are they most angry about?
0:36.1	What is the topic that just gets under their craw?
0:40.0	Yeah, yeah, we're talking about college seniors this year.
0:44.9	If you said AI, you would be correct.
0:50.4	Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to the Dean's List.
0:52.8	I'm happy to have you on board, the America Out Loud Talk Radio Network and AI.
0:59.1	The topic of AI at commencement ceremonies is not going over well.
1:05.6	No, it's being greeted with booze.
1:08.8	It's being greeted with disdain and distrust.
1:12.4	And why shouldn't it?
1:14.3	Many of these college graduates feel as though they are entering into a workforce that's pushing
1:24.0	them out by the machine, pushing them out by this unknown, this unnamed,
1:32.0	this entity that we just call artificial intelligence.
1:35.9	It's artificial.
1:37.1	It's another word for fake.
1:38.7	Fake intelligence.
1:41.1	But it's being manipulated in a way that students are worried they're worried that
1:49.0	they're going to enter into a job market that's already saturated and they're not going to have
1:55.1	a place in it thousands of students graduating from the university of Arizona will go to Arizona first.
2:05.4	They booed former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, as Schmidt is commenting on artificial intelligence
2:13.8	during his commencement address just a couple days ago.
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