It's graduation season for universities across the US, and this year an unexpected viral trend has emerged: graduates booing artificial intelligence (AI). AI isn't a new concept, but as its presence in our daily lives intensifies, so too does opposition to it. And it seems that opposition is exceedingly vocal among new graduates grappling with how the technology will impact their ability to get a job. Here's a look at just a few of the instances of graduates rejecting AI that are circulating on social media at the moment She was met with a chorus of boos and jeers, before continuing on. "Only a few years ago, AI was not a factor in our lives," she said. This was met with cheers. A snippet of her speech was clipped from the YouTube video of the ceremony and shared widely across social media.Another example came a week later, when former Google chief executive Eric Schmidt spoke at a University of Arizona graduation ceremony.The crowd was heckling throughout much of Dr Schmidt's speech, becoming more raucous when he mentioned Time Magazine selecting the "Architects of AI" as its person of the year for 2025