The AI backlash is growing. Here’s how smart companies can adapt

Skepticism of AI and infrastructure constraints may drive up the cost of computing power. Leaders will need strong governance to keep innovating.

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Pete Pachal is a journalist and the creator of Media Copilot, a newsletter and podcast that examines how AI is changing media, journalism, and the news.

If you told me two years ago that the demographic most hostile to AI would be Generation Z and younger, I would have thought you were out of your mind. Surely the younger generation, which has always been more technically adept, would want to use that to their advantage and embrace the technology, potentially making themselves more skilled, productive, and—above all—hirable.

But that’s not what’s happening. In May, students booed speakers at graduation ceremonies all over the country when they mentioned artificial intelligence. Google’s chairman, Eric Schmidt, got hit when he tried to suggest to graduates at the University of Arizona........

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