- Around 200–300 Stanford graduates walked out of Sundar Pichai’s commencement speech, organized by Students for Justice in Palestine to protest Google’s alleged ties to Israel and Project Nimbus.
- The incident fits a wider trend this season of tech leaders and other commencement speakers facing boos and walkouts over AI and political controversies.
- Pichai avoided direct mentions of AI onstage, instead urging optimism and saying younger generations will have to manage the impacts of new technologies.
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