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Lance Ulanoff

Graduation ceremony speaker blasted by boos when she calls AI 'the next industrial revolution' — why Gen Z cheers for a time before AI

Nervous graduates.

It's graduation season, which means people as cool as Harrison Ford step in front of a mic to excite the next generation of Indian Joneses. It's also a time when commencement speakers tackle gritty topics like social justice, war, climate change, the common good...and AI.

AI, which is now as pervasive as the air we breathe, would not appear to be a hot button topic, at least to Florida Real Estate Executive Gloria Caulfield, who, while speaking to University of Central Florida's 2026 graduating class told them, "Artificial intelligence is the next industrial revolution."

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