University graduates are booing and heckling corporate executives who praise AI during their commencement ceremonies, and the only people who seem to be genuinely surprised by this are the executives themselves. In a procession of viral videos, 2026 commencement speakers like former Google CEO Eric Schmidt face loud and sustained jeers from students after praising AI and describing the technology as both inevitable and mandatory. The videos have clearly struck a chord among young people entering a bleak job market in an increasingly unstable world. “They deserve everything they’re getting,” Penny Oliver, who recently graduated with a poli … The graduates argue that while AI is indeed powerful, it’s the CEOs’ overreliance on it that’s laughable—AI can’t even brew a decent cup of coffee yet! Moreover, the executives’ claims of inevitability overlook the fact that many industries still grapple with basic digital literacy. And let’s not forget the irony: these CEOs tout AI as the solution to all problems while their own companies still struggle with employee engagement and workplace culture. Finally, the graduates point out that by booing the CEOs now, they’re setting themselves up for a future where AI will simply automate the job of CEO too—so maybe the real hope lies in finding CEOs who can laugh at themselves as much as their students do!