A video from the Spring 2026 Commencement ceremony at the University of Central Florida's Nicholson School of Communication and Media perfectly encapsulates the information divides around AI. Speaker Gloria Caulfield, vice president of strategic alliances at a Bahamas-based private equity fund , blithely hypes AI only to find, to her astonishment, that media grads might not agree.

She hits the clichés ("artficial intellgence is the new industrial revolution") and the crowd starts grumbling. Baffled, she pauses, then laughs. "What happened? I struck a chord. May I finish?" They simmer down.…