Eric Schmidt, former CEO and chairman of Google, chair and CEO of Relativity Space, speaks onstage during the America Business Forum at Kaseya Center on Nov. 6, 2025 in Miami. When he spoke last month at commencement exercises at the University of Arizona, he was roundly booed by the graduates, part of a trend at graduation exercises across the country. 

AI is everywhere, from search engines to text messages to dating profiles to homework; every word we tap prompts an AI to guess our intent. It’s no wonder then that the mention of it can inspire its own automatic response: Graduates nationwide have been booing their commencement speakers, including my husband, former Google Chief Executive Officer Eric Schmidt, last month at the University of Arizona. 

When today’s college graduates were still in high school, artificial intelligence seemed on the leading edge of what was possible in computing. It was being developed in a handful of large tech companies and by a small band of disorganized but ambitious startups, one of them, OpenAI, a nonprofit at the time.

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You’ve heard from my husband, Eric Schmidt, about AI. Now here’s my take

Today, the danger AI poses to human societies is a central concern around the world, so much so that Pope Leo XIV devoted his novella-length first encyclical to the subject. In part, that’s because a few highly capitalized private companies are now racing to capture their share of human enterprise, entertainment and education,........

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