{"id":578315,"date":"2026-05-11T16:09:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T16:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/578315\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T16:09:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T16:09:10","slug":"students-boo-commencement-speaker-after-she-calls-ai-the-next-industrial-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/578315\/","title":{"rendered":"Students Boo Commencement Speaker After She Calls AI the \u2018Next Industrial Revolution\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking to graduates of University of Central Florida\u2019s College of Arts and Humanities and Nicholson School of Communication and Media on May 8, commencement speaker Gloria Caulfield, vice president of strategic alliances at Tavistock Group, told graduating humanities students that AI is the \u201cnext industrial revolution,\u201d and was met with thousands of booing graduates.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd let\u2019s face it, change can be daunting. The rise of artificial intelligence is the next industrial revolution,\u201d Caulfield said. At that point, murmurs rippled through the crowd. Caulfield paused, and the crowd erupted into boos. \u201cOh, what happened?\u201d Caulfield said, turning around with her hands out. \u201cOkay, I struck a chord. May I finish?\u201d Someone in the crowd yelled, \u201cAI SUCKS!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>    This post is for paid members only<\/p>\n<p>Become a paid member for unlimited ad-free access to articles, bonus podcast content, and more.<\/p>\n<p>    <a class=\"btn btn--brand m-b-lg\" href=\"https:\/\/www.404media.co\/membership\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe<\/a><\/p>\n<p>    Sign up for free access to this post<\/p>\n<p>Free members get access to posts like this one along with an email round-up of our week&#8217;s stories.<\/p>\n<p>    <a class=\"btn btn--brand m-b-lg\" href=\"https:\/\/www.404media.co\/signup\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Speaking to graduates of University of Central Florida\u2019s College of Arts and Humanities and Nicholson School of Communication&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":578316,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-578315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=578315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578315\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/578316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}