{"id":1014619,"date":"2026-06-15T11:42:43","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T06:12:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1014619"},"modified":"2026-06-15T11:42:43","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T06:12:43","slug":"microsoft-president-brad-smith-has-a-message-for-students-booing-tech-ceos-i-agree-with-you-but","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/15\/microsoft-president-brad-smith-has-a-message-for-students-booing-tech-ceos-i-agree-with-you-but\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft president Brad Smith has a message for students booing tech CEOs: I agree with you, but\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft president Brad Smith has spent four decades around computer scientists, and he says they keep making the same two mistakes. They overestimate how fast a new technology will spread, and they underestimate what people are capable of. The Microsoft president put both ideas at the center of a 3,000-word essay this week, written in response to a wave of graduating students who booed every mention of AI during their commencement speeches this spring. His read on those boos isn&#8217;t that the kids got it wrong. It&#8217;s that the tech sector did.<br \/>\n&#8220;The reactions of this year&#8217;s graduates are a powerful wake-up call for the tech sector,&#8221; Smith wrote in the post, titled &#8220;AI, jobs, and the next generation,&#8221; published on Microsoft&#8217;s blog on June 10. &#8220;Hopefully, leaders across our industry will listen and seek to learn from this reaction.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft president Brad Smith has spent four decades around computer scientists, and he says they keep making the same two mistakes. They overestimate how fast a new technology will spread, and they underestimate what people are capable of. The Microsoft president put both ideas at the center of a 3,000-word essay this week, written in response to a wave of graduating students who booed every mention of AI during their commencement speeches this spring. His read on those boos isn&#8217;t that the kids got it wrong. It&#8217;s that the tech sector did. &#8220;The reactions of this year&#8217;s graduates are a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1014619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1014619"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1014620,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014619\/revisions\/1014620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1014619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1014619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1014619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}