Fox guest tells college students worried about AI taking their jobs to “get on board or get run over”
Harris Faulkner: “Stop screaming at the wind and become part of the solution”
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From the May 18, 2026, edition of Fox News' The Faulkner Focus
HARRIS FAULKNER (ANCHOR): A recent Gallup poll shows Gen Z's increasingly negative view of AI last year. 36% of Gen Zers were excited about it. Now the number sits at 22%. And on the flip side, their anger toward it jumped by nearly 10%. Look, we know they are the feels generation, I totally get it. Your thoughts?
BEN FERGUSON (GUEST): Yeah, get on board or get run over. And I would just love to take another poll. How many of the people that were booing at the commencement ceremony have AI apps on their phone? Better question, how many of them used AI to pass their tests? How many of them used AI to write one of their book reports or to do one of their thesis statements? Mark my word, they're all hypocrites out there. I don't know a single college kid that doesn't utilize AI.
I will say this, if you're upset about AI, then you should be advocating for America to beat China in the AI race so that you do actually have these jobs. You better embrace it, you better fight against China, you better advocate for America to be the AI center of the world. But this booing of AI, wake up kids, you got to grow up at some point. It's here, you use it, you probably cheated a little bit with it in school anyway. You went to bed a little earlier. You didn't have to pull an all nighter like I did where you actually had to go to the library. So, I'm sorry, man up and woman up. Welcome to AI in 2026.
FAULKNER: Yeah. Stop screaming at the wind and become part of the solution.