Microsoft’s Brad Smith: Graduates jeering AI are ‘telling us what we need to hear’

Brad Smith speaks at a Microsoft Elevate event at Seattle’s Museum of History and Industry in 2025. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) The interests of Microsoft and graduates rebelling against AI are actually aligned. That was one takeaway for Brad Smith, Microsoft president and vice chair, from a recent return to his alma mater, Princeton University, for its reunion weekend.