• "Too often, this is being presented to them as something that is going to happen to them, not for them. And I think this is their way of saying: 'Wait a second. Not so fast. We have a voice. We want to be heard.'"

Zoom out: Smith also wrote in a new paper that AI getting booed at this spring's graduation ceremonies should be a "powerful wake-up call for the tech sector."

• "For the past half century, the youngest generation of people and workers has led the way in adopting new digital technologies," Smith wrote. "When people who use a new technology complain about it, we had better take notice."