Booing students and cost overruns show the AI ​​honeymoon is over

The surprise in former Google CEO Eric Schmidt’s eyes when University of Arizona students loudly booed his speech mentioning the rise of artificial intelligence at a graduation ceremony earlier this month was a public sign of a changing mood that is beginning to worry Silicon Valley.

The billionaire businessman had apparently expected his allusion to excite the young audience Time However, the magazine’s decision to name several “Architects of AI” as Person of the Year was instead met with a chorus of ridicule. It was a theme that echoed across numerous campuses during graduation season, as speakers raised the letters “AI” in the air.

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