A video from the Spring 2026 Graduation ceremony on the College of Central Florida’s Nicholson Faculty of Communication and Media completely encapsulates the data divides round AI. Speaker Gloria Caulfield, vice chairman of strategic alliances at a Bahamas-based non-public fairness fund, blithely hypes AI solely to seek out, to her astonishment, that media grads may not agree.
She hits the clichés (“artficial intellgence is the brand new industrial revolution”) and the group begins grumbling. Baffled, she pauses, then laughs. “What occurred? I struck a chord. Could I end?” They simmer down. “Only some years in the past, AI was not a think about our lives,” she continues, solely to be lower off by wild cheering.
“We have a bipolar subject right here, I see,” she says, having not seen what’s proper in entrance of her.
Caulfield is not an alum of the college, however being “instrumental in figuring out strategic intersections with stakeholders” and “quantifying new income streams for built-in healthcare methods” she is on the coronary heart of professional-managerial tradition and ensphered by the AI bubble. She appears to don’t know why individuals may not like AI and amazed to seek out such unfamiliar beings standing earlier than her at a commencement ceremony.
In the meantime, AI is being blamed (not fully truthfully) for the gutting jobs within the tech and media industries, with AI firm CEOs desirous to take the credit score and promise extra.
This is her speech, embedded beneath; it begins 1:16m into the stream. The AI hype and its response begins at 1:21. Caulfield shall be tremendous; in response to her bio, she has globally acknowledged innovation gatherings to attend and New Age guru Deepak Chopra’s wellness platform to advise.
