Young graduates protest AI boom over environmental and job concerns
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Sanya Carley
Summary
The article examines growing backlash among young people (particularly college students) against the AI boom, manifested in booing of pro-AI speakers at commencement ceremonies. While the immediate concern is AI threatening entry-level jobs for graduates, the article highlights a deeper worry: the environmental impact of data centers powering AI. Younger generations, already deeply concerned about climate change, are increasingly skeptical of AI's environmental costs, creating tension between technological progress and sustainability values.
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· 4 pulledFrom Florida to California, students have booed speakers who praised AI or highlighted its growing role in today's society.
The backlash is hardly surprising since AI threatens to wipe out the kind of entry-level jobs that new college graduates depend on.
Beneath that immediate threat lies another, less obvious one: the AI boom's impact on the environment.
Younger generations are very worried about climate change.
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