Why Chinese youth aren’t booing AI, unlike American graduates

This spring, American graduates did something commencement audiences rarely do: they booed the future being sold to them. At several universities, students jeered speakers who praised artificial intelligence (AI), so often that a National Public Radio report advised this year’s orators to avoid the subject altogether. That reaction is too easily dismissed as technophobia. These are among the most digitally fluent graduates ever. What they reject is not AI; they reject a version of it in which...