{"id":819994,"date":"2026-05-25T00:34:25","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T00:34:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/819994\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T00:34:25","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T00:34:25","slug":"jeremy-scott-shreds-speech-by-ai-while-graduates-cheer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/819994\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeremy Scott Shreds Speech by AI While Graduates Cheer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"storyParagraph\">&#13;<br \/>\n                                        Jeremy Scott opened his commencement speech in Kansas City with a polished, familiar riff about &#8220;new beginnings&#8221; and &#8220;limitless power.&#8221; Then he revealed the twist: A chatbot had written it. &#8220;This is AI,&#8221; the fashion designer told graduates of the Kansas City Art Institute on May 16 before tearing up the prepared remarks to loud cheers. Students, he said, shouldn&#8217;t look to &#8220;AI overlords&#8221; to define right and wrong, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/jeremy-scott-fashion-graduation-speech-commencement-ai-student-backlash-2026-5\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Business Insider<\/a> reports.&#13;\n                                    <\/p>\n<p class=\"storyParagraph\">&#13;<br \/>\n                                        &#8220;Because you know what AI can&#8217;t do? It can&#8217;t do what you do. It can&#8217;t have an original idea. It can&#8217;t even differentiate the difference between a good idea, a unique idea, and one that&#8217;s mediocre,&#8221; Scott said. He argued that what separates human creators from machines is passion\u2014and that this makes artists more vital, not less, in an AI-saturated moment, saying, &#8220;The artist is even more crucial than ever.&#8221; His approach landed differently from other recent commencement speeches that waded into AI.&#13;\n                                    <\/p>\n<p class=\"storyParagraph\">&#13;<br \/>\n                                        Former Google CEO <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newser.com\/story\/389315\/eric-schmidt-booed-at-arizona-graduation-over-ai-remarks.html?\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Eric Schmidt <\/a>and real estate executive Gloria Caulfield were booed over their AI comments at separate ceremonies, while record label chief Scott Borchetta faced criticism for remarks on AI&#8217;s impact on music. There was no noticeable objection to Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang telling Carnegie Mellon graduates that AI will be a positive and that &#8220;the answer is not to fear the future,&#8221; however, per <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2026\/05\/19\/college-graduates-ai-commencement-speech\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Axios<\/a>. And Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak drew applause when he told Grand Valley State University graduates that they have a better version: &#8220;actual intelligence.&#8221;&#13;\n                                    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Jeremy Scott opened his commencement speech in Kansas City with a polished, familiar riff about &#8220;new beginnings&#8221;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":819995,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[21],"tags":[691,738,337123,158,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-819994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-commencement-speech","tag-technology","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116632411588702338","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=819994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819994\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/819995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=819994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=819994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=819994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}