The new college graduation ritual: booing AI

As artificial intelligence forces students to rethink their majors and reshapes the job market , it's clear that graduates don't want to hear about the technology on their big day. The big picture: Several commencement ceremonies have been interrupted by boos and jeers when speakers have brought up AI, an indicator that while the tech is easing into many parts of life , not everyone is on board . Driving the news: Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt drew repeated boos Friday while discussing AI at the University of Arizona's commencement. Real estate executive Gloria Caulfield called AI "the next industrial revolution" at the University of Central Florida's commencement, and was immediately drowned out by boos from arts and humanities graduates. "Okay, I struck a chord," she said. Music executive Scott Borchetta, who discovered Taylor Swift in 2005, told Middle Tennessee State University graduates that "AI is rewriting production as we sit here," prompting boos . He retorted: "deal with it…