A funny thing has been happening at college graduations this spring.

The rise of artificial intelligence is the next industrial revolution.

Oh.

Whoa.

What happened? Okay, I struck a chord. May I finish?

A lot of commencement speakers are getting booed when they bring up AI.

This time, it was the architects of artificial intelligence.

Interesting.

This reaction is happening all over the place.

From Florida to Tennessee to Arizona.

Why are all these college students booing commencement speakers when they bring up AI?

Well, you're expecting people to have a positive reaction to something that's an existential threat, kind of, to their careers.

Our colleague Alison Polly covers the workplace.

You have a commencement speaker, and you're waiting for them to say something inspiring. And then they tell you that AI is the future and it's this inevitable thing that you need to accept and it's going to radically change the world.

Well, that message isn't really

going over with a bunch of people who have been told that AI is going to take away entry-level

jobs and going to change their entire future. They have no clue how it's going to shape their careers because employers themselves don't even know how AI is going to shape their workforces.

And for people who are just getting in at the bottom level, yes, that can be an opportunity, but it can also be really anxiety-inducing, too.

Hi, my name's Bella. I'm going into my junior year of college. I'm studying economics with a minor in

journalism. We asked college students in recent graduates, beyond the booing, how are they really

feeling about AI? And we got a lot of responses.

I am both nervous and optimistic about AI.

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