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College grads shocked as names are read at commencement — by AI
These students got a robo-sendoff they won’t forget.
Students at New York City’s Pace University were left shell-shocked — and maybe just a bit shellacked — when their recent graduation ceremony featured a synthetic surprise: Their names were read aloud not by a proud professor or a human announcer, but by a voice created by artificial intelligence. A viral video posted by @therundownai on Instagram shows Pace grads queuing up to have QR codes on their phones scanned — a moment some compared to “fruit and vegetables at a supermarket checkout” — then hearing their names uttered aloud via disembodied AI over the sound system. Pace University grads got a shock to the system when, instead of a professor proudly calling their names, a robotic voice took the mic — straight outta Silicon Valley.
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