A commencement speaker at the University of Central Florida had one of the more uncomfortable minutes any graduation speaker has experienced in recent memory on the evening of Friday May 8, 2026, when she told a room full of arts and communications graduates that artificial intelligence is “the next industrial revolution” and discovered almost immediately that the several thousand people in red robes were not the audience she had imagined she was speaking to. The speaker was Gloria Caulfield, vice president of strategic alliances for Tavistock Development Company, a Florida real estate and development firm, and president of the Lake … Continue reading Graduation Speaker Praised AI At UCF And The Students Booed Her Off Stage