Sundar Pichai chooses 'optimism' over AI (and boos) for his Stanford graduation speech
Google CEO Sundar Pichai was careful with his language during his graduation speech at Stanford University. Bloomberg/Getty Images Google CEO Sundar Pichai gave the commencement address at Stanford on Sunday. He avoided any real mention of AI. Instead, he focused on "optimism." Students have booed recent graduation speakers who talked about the promise of AI. Google is one of the companies leading the AI revolution. Google CEO Sundar Pichai, however, made no mention of that during his commencement speech to Stanford University graduates on Sunday — and for good reason. Students relentlessly booed one of Pichai's predecessors, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt , when he praised the promise of AI during his own commencement speech at the University of Arizona last month. Students also booed Big Machine Records CEO Scott Borchetta when he talked about AI at Middle Tennessee State University. "I know today is about giving you all advice," Pichai told the graduates. ...