The AI Commencement

Podcast: Communication Breakdown · Observatory on Corporate Reputation LLC

Opublikowano: 2026-05-21

In this episode of Communication Breakdown, Steve Dowling and Craig Carroll examine a string of AI-related commencement speech misfires and what they reveal about executive communication, audience awareness, and the limits of pushing a message into the wrong moment. The conversation centers on former Google CEO Eric Schmidt’s controversial University of Arizona address, contrasting it with stronger speeches from NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang at Carnegie Mellon and musician Jacob Collier at Berklee College of Music. Jensen Huang at Carnegie Mellon: https://www.youtube.com/live/FZh_0uRgrg4Jacob Collier at Berklee College of Music: https://www.youtube.com/wat...