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Emma Burleigh

AMD CEO Lisa Su tells grads they shape the future, not AI—and the world doesn’t just need ‘people who know how to use powerful tools’

Lisa Su, CEO of AMD (Credit: Noam Galai / Stringer / Getty Images)

College graduates are turning their tassels and heading into a labor market upended by AI. Knowing how to prompt, vibe code, and work alongside AI agents have increasingly become an expectation—but AMD CEO Lisa Su says knowing how to use the tools isn’t enough.

“The world does not just need people who know how to use powerful tools, it needs people who know what to use them for, people with a sense of purpose, judgment, courage,” Su recently told MIT’s class of 2026 graduates during her commencement address.

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