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| The Gloves Come Off | 05 oct. 2026 | 01:11:52 | |
Personal AI agents are moving into calendars, inboxes, phones, and feeds. The harder question is who carries responsibility when those systems shape what people see, believe, and choose. Jason Padgett and Julie Koehrer take the gloves off in this Weekly Blitz. What starts with Meta Muse, Grok Bot, privacy, and AI regulation turns into a real argument about the economy, data-center incentives, capitalism, billionaires, water, algorithms, and whether responsibility sits with companies, government, or the public. The disagreement gets heated. They stay in it, listen, push back, and end with the thing this show is supposed to make room for: two people who respect each other enough to argue honestly. RSVP for the Chakra AI Solutions' Launch Party, October 11th at Daniel's Vineyard in McCordsville: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/chakra-ai-solutions-launch-event-tickets-1997164099584 WHAT YOU'LL TAKE AWAY What personal AI agents gain when users give them access to everyday work and data Why software accountability and AI regulation remain unsettled How headlines, algorithms, and personal choices shape what reaches our feeds Where Jason and Julie split on business incentives, taxes, and public responsibility Why respectful disagreement still matters when the stakes feel personal ABOUT THE WEEKLY BLITZ Jason Padgett and Julie Koehrer meet on Monday mornings to sort through the AI headlines, argue through the tradeoffs, and ask what any of it means for regular people trying to live and work through the change. RESOURCES MENTIONED Meta Muse https://about.fb.com/news/2026/09/introducing-muse-personal-ai-agent/ Grok Bot https://x.ai/news/introducing-grok-bot Claude's Constitution https://www.anthropic.com/constitution OpenAI DevDay 2026 https://openai.com/index/devday-2026/ CONNECT WITH JASON PADGETT Jason Padgett | AI Solutions Architect | Co-Founder, Wooden Boy Industries | Host, AGI Podcast | AI Adoption, LLM Systems & Human-AI Workflows AGI - Advance Grow and Innovate with AI Podcast Network 🌐 https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/ CoFounder, Wooden Boy Industries 🌐 https://woodenboyindustriesai.com/ Chief Solutions Architect, Chakra AI Solutions 🌐 https://chakrasolutions.ai/ 📧 jason@agipodcast.ai TOOLS USED Riverside ChatGPT | |||
| What Are We Racing To? AI Assistants, Privacy, and Buying Back Time | The Weekly Blitz | 28 sept. 2026 | 00:43:54 | |
What Are We Racing To? AI Assistants, Privacy, and Buying Back Time | The Weekly BlitzJulie asks the question that cuts through most AI productivity pitches: what are we racing to?In this Weekly Blitz, Julie Koehrer and Jason Padgett work through that question without pretending they agree on every answer. They talk about AI longevity claims, compute and regulation, local data systems, voice-first agents, consumer AI assistants, privacy, public surveillance, and what it actually means to buy back time.WHAT YOU'LL TAKE AWAYWhy faster output only matters when you know what you want the saved time forHow better data organization can reduce the work an AI system has to doWhy convenience and trust become inseparable when an assistant can act for youHow Julie and Jason draw different personal boundaries around voice, privacy, and automationWhy AI safety still comes back to accountable engineering and containmentCHAPTERS00:00 AI longevity and what counts as a stretch02:11 Superintelligence, control, and human arrogance05:00 Data centers, compute, and regulation08:00 Sentiment, context, and efficient AI systems09:02 Building one organized source of truth18:05 What are we racing to?19:09 Buying back time with AI agents24:14 Voice-first work and the instant ick25:40 Flock cameras, public trust, and accountability30:11 Consumer AI assistants and privacy35:50 Trusted agents supervising other tools37:35 Softball, TikTok, and a vibe-coder cartoon41:37 AI containment as an engineering problemABOUT JULIE KOEHRERJulie Koehrer co-hosts The Weekly Blitz and brings a practical marketing and media perspective to the conversation. She asks the questions a lot of people have when a new AI tool promises speed, convenience, and a little more access than feels comfortable.RESOURCES MENTIONEDThe AGI Podcast Networkhttps://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/networkWoof Boom Radio Indianahttps://woofboom.com/indiana/CONNECT WITH JASON PADGETTJason Padgett | AI Solutions Architect | Co-Founder, Wooden Boy Industries | Host, AGI Podcast | AI Adoption, LLM Systems & Human-AI WorkflowsAGI - Advance Grow and Innovate with AI Podcast Network🌐 https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/CoFounder, Wooden Boy Industries🌐 https://woodenboyindustriesai.com/Chief Solutions Architect, Chakra AI Solutions🌐 https://chakrasolutions.ai/📧 jason@agipodcast.aiTOOLS USEDRiversideSpotify for Creators
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| AI, Work & What Comes Next | Bryan Barnhill | Humans in the Loop | 27 sept. 2026 | 01:00:36 | |
AI can take work off your plate, but how do you decide what to trust it with, and what happens to people whose work changes? Jason Padgett and Bryan Barnhill talk through real uses of AI, the limits of automation, and the people affected by both. Bryan brings decades in technology, including healthcare IT and business operations. He has been exploring AI agents in his own projects and shares what learning these tools looks like from the inside. WHAT YOU’LL TAKE AWAY How to start with one AI tool and learn it well. Why industry expertise still matters when an agent can build quickly. What sensitive data and regulated work demand from an AI workflow. How AI may change creative work, jobs, and the way teams communicate. Why helping people learn to use these tools matters more than doing everything for them. Try this: choose one repeated task this week, decide what success would look like, and test one AI tool on a version you can review yourself. ABOUT BRYAN BARNHILL Bryan is a retired technology professional in Indianapolis. In this conversation, he describes earlier work in PC networking, healthcare IT, and business operations, and his current exploration of AI agents. Bryan on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bryan-barnhill-4698b16/ CONNECT WITH JASON PADGETT Jason Padgett | AI Solutions Architect | Co-Founder, Wooden Boy Industries | Host, AGI Podcast | AI Adoption, LLM Systems & Human-AI Workflows AGI - Advance Grow and Innovate with AI Podcast Network: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/ CoFounder, Wooden Boy Industries: https://woodenboyindustriesai.com/ Chief Solutions Architect, Chakra AI Solutions: https://chakrasolutions.ai/ jason@agipodcast.ai | |||
| When You See Us, You Can Be Us | Linda Calvin | AGI School’s Out Saturdays | 26 sept. 2026 | 01:09:34 | |
What skills will help students find their footing when AI changes the work waiting for them? Linda Calvin joins Jason Padgett to talk about critical thinking, real relationships, and who gets a voice in building that future. Linda calls communication, problem-solving, and collaboration “power skills.” We talk about how students practice them, why access to technology still matters, and what happens when efficiency becomes the only measure of progress. Her experience founding Indiana Women IN Tech Week brings the conversation back to something young people can actually see: people like them doing work they never knew was possible. WHAT YOU’LL TAKE AWAY Why networking starts with curiosity and preparation. How to use AI while practicing your own judgment. Why diverse experience helps teams catch problems earlier. What foundational technology education can give every student. Linda also brings Star Trek into the conversation. The M5 story gives us plenty to discuss about bias, automation, and the decisions leaders still have to make. TRY THIS Before your next networking conversation, read about the person’s work and write down two questions. Give yourself a reason to listen before you give someone a reason to buy. ABOUT LINDA CALVIN, JD Founder, Indiana Women IN Tech Week. President and Chief Thought Leader, Transcend Consulting. Technology and workforce leader, keynote speaker, and moderator. Her career includes technology leadership at Dow and Stanley Black & Decker, Reboot Representation, and technology education leadership at Ivy Tech Community College and Western Governors University. CONNECT WITH LINDA https://www.linkedin.com/in/lindacalvin/ https://www.transcendent-talks.com/ https://www.indianawomenintechweek.com/ RESOURCES MENTIONED 100 Year EdTech Project https://100yearedtechproject.org/ CONNECT WITH JASON PADGETT Jason Padgett | AI Solutions Architect | Co-Founder, Wooden Boy Industries | Host, AGI Podcast | AI Adoption, LLM Systems & Human-AI Workflows AGI - Advance Grow and Innovate with AI Podcast Network 🌐 https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/ CoFounder, Wooden Boy Industries 🌐 https://woodenboyindustriesai.com/ Chief Solutions Architect, Chakra AI Solutions 🌐 https://chakrasolutions.ai/ 📧 jason@agipodcast.ai TOOLS Recorded and edited with Riverside. #AGIPodcast #SchoolsOutSaturdays #WomenINTech #AIinEducation #LindaCalvin | |||
| AI for Small Business: Automate, Audit, Adapt | Bryan Barnhill | Weekly Blitz | 21 sept. 2026 | 00:39:11 | |
AI should take work off your plate. So why does choosing models, checking results and keeping up sometimes feel like another job? Jason Padgett is joined by guest co-host Bryan Barnhill for a practical Weekly Blitz conversation about small-business AI, useful automation and the work of checking what your agents actually did. Bryan is a retired IT professional whose later career included healthcare. He describes his interest in helping owners think about AI before a business transition, building an app that lets customers buy friends a drink for later collection, and learning from a multi-agent fantasy-football project that did not generate sales. WHAT YOU’LL TAKE AWAY Compare model quality with the quality of your prompts and feedback. TRY THIS Choose one recurring task. Define the useful result, decide how you will check it and put a review date on the calendar. CONNECT WITH BRYAN BARNHILL Bryan is based in Indianapolis. He is exploring AI uses for local small businesses and building a drink-gifting app. RESOURCES MENTIONED Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind. Jason discusses its beginner’s-mind idea during the conversation. CONNECT WITH JASON PADGETT Jason Padgett | AI Solutions Architect | Co-Founder, Wooden Boy Industries | Host, AGI Podcast | AI Adoption, LLM Systems & Human-AI Workflows AGI - Advance Grow and Innovate with AI Podcast Network CoFounder, Wooden Boy Industries Chief Solutions Architect, Chakra AI Solutions 📧 jason@agipodcast.ai TOOLS DISCUSSED ChatGPT and Codex MUSIC Shrug It Off | |||
| Can’t Honor the Gentleman’s Rule? Don’t Enter the Duel | 20 sept. 2026 | 01:08:57 | |
AI policy keeps getting written like a rulebook for a system that behaves more like a living network. In this episode, Jason Padgett and Hunter Hickman ask the harder question: how do we build judgment, responsibility, and real AI literacy before capability outruns control? The conversation starts with frontier AI. Who benefits from regulation? Can data centers provide a practical control point? What happens when a machine follows a measurable goal without sharing the values behind it? And if constitutional AI is part of the answer, who gets to write the constitution? Then the argument moves into schools, where those questions are already real. Hunter explains why detection-first policies create a game of cat and mouse, why teachers need durable AI literacy more than a rotating catalog of tools, and why responsible use should develop people instead of simply offloading their work. WHAT YOU’LL TAKE AWAY Why AI control is a governance problem as much as a technical problem How broad principles can preserve local judgment in school AI policy Why students should learn to show their work when AI is involved How teachers can act more like coaches while students explore, practice, and perform Why purposeful AI use can mean less student screen time, not more How consistency and literacy can outlast any single AI platform The episode lands on Hunter’s experience at Wabash College. The Gentleman’s Rule replaced a thick rulebook with a broad expectation of responsible conduct. It trusted people with freedom and held them accountable for judgment. That same principle connects classroom discipline, digital citizenship, and the effort to align increasingly capable AI. The challenge: find one place where your current AI policy rewards compliance without developing judgment. Rewrite it as a standard people must understand and uphold. ABOUT HUNTER HICKMAN Hunter Hickman, M.S., is a secondary English educator, English department head, district AI implementation leader, founder of Hickman Consulting LLC, and head boys wrestling coach at Rensselaer Central High School. He works at the intersection of classroom practice, educator development, and responsible AI adoption. CONNECT WITH HUNTER HICKMAN Hickman Consulting AI https://www.hickmanconsultingai.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/hunter-hickman-m-s-2b501383/ Rensselaer Central High School https://rchs.rensselaerschools.org/ Rensselaer Central Boys Wrestling https://rensselaerathletics.com/Team/7cbc4208-1bfa-4331-b0f4-7c4257672d98/Wrestling%20%28Boys%20V-JV%29 RESOURCES MENTIONED The Gentleman’s Rule | Wabash College https://www.wabash.edu/aboutwabash/rule Claude’s Constitution | Anthropic https://www.anthropic.com/constitution Attention Is All You Need https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.03762 CONNECT WITH JASON PADGETT Jason Padgett | AI Solutions Architect | Co-Founder, Wooden Boy Industries | Host, AGI Podcast | AI Adoption, LLM Systems & Human-AI Workflows AGI - Advance Grow and Innovate with AI Podcast Network 🌐 https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/ CoFounder, Wooden Boy Industries 🌐 https://woodenboyindustriesai.com/ Chief Solutions Architect, Chakra AI Solutions 🌐 https://chakrasolutions.ai/ 📧 jason@agipodcast.ai TOOLS MENTIONED ChatGPT Claude Gemini Grok MagicSchool SchoolAI Khanmigo 📧 jason@agipodcast.ai | |||
| The Future Has No Fixed Path | Toni Holcombe on AI, Learning and the Courage to Pivot | 19 sept. 2026 | 00:52:37 | |
What should a high school sophomore prepare for when the tools, jobs and rules keep changing? Toni Holcombe's answer is simple: there is no spoon. The future has not already been decided, and one choice does not have to become a lifelong identity. This episode closes 2026 Indiana Women in Tech Week and serves as this week's AGI School's Out Saturdays conversation. Jason Padgett and Toni move from data careers and AI hiring to education, trust, creativity, learning differences and the ability to change direction when a path no longer serves you. Toni explains why technical knowledge alone is not enough. People who can translate technical work into language others can understand bring enormous value. She challenges the usual idea of cultural fit, which can become groupthink when everybody sounds and thinks alike. She also argues that students should sometimes do the work the hard way before automating it. A bad process does not improve just because technology makes it faster. The conversation explores how AI fear creates resistance, why no model stays best forever, how audio and visual formats can help different learners, and why a degree or first career choice does not have to define the rest of a student's life. IN THIS EPISODE 01:41 Creating visibility for people navigating an AI-shaped job market 04:43 Translating technical knowledge into human language 06:40 Cultural fit, diversity of thought and groupthink 09:09 Learning a process before automating it 11:48 Why fear makes people resist AI 20:47 Designing for different kinds of learners 31:49 The limits of AI as a thought partner 37:46 Matching the model to the work 40:53 Do not automate a broken process 44:12 There is no spoon: Toni's advice for students CONNECT WITH TONI HOLCOMBE https://www.linkedin.com/in/toni-holcombe/ CONNECT WITH JASON PADGETT Jason Padgett | AI Solutions Architect | Co-Founder, Wooden Boy Industries | Host, AGI Podcast | AI Adoption, LLM Systems & Human-AI Workflows AGI - Advance Grow and Innovate with AI Podcast Network 🌐 https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/ CoFounder, Wooden Boy Industries 🌐 https://woodenboyindustriesai.com/ Chief Solutions Architect, Chakra AI Solutions 🌐 https://chakrasolutions.ai/ 📧 jason@agipodcast.ai | |||
| Episode Title Indiana Women in Tech Week 6, AI Needs Women’s Voices Featuring Angie Carel | 18 sept. 2026 | 00:32:13 | |
She did not come from a traditional tech background. Now Angie Carel is helping Fort Wayne learn, question and build with AI. For the sixth and final interview of the 2026 Indiana Women in Tech Week series, Jason Padgett talks with Angie Carel, an AI advisor, speaker and community builder in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Angie explains how marketing and creative strategy led her into generative AI, why curiosity matters more than a technical title, and how consistent learning took her from feeling intimidated by technology to working in terminal windows and building agents. The conversation moves beyond tools. Angie and Jason discuss which work people should keep for themselves, how much trust AI agents have earned, why women's voices must be part of the future being built, and why healthy disagreement may be one of the most important skills of the AI era. They also look toward 2035. Angie expects neither a perfect technological utopia nor a total dystopia. She expects surprises, tradeoffs and choices that people still have the power to shape. This episode closes the 2026 Indiana Women in Tech Week series from the Hoosier Heartland. CONNECT WITH ANGIE CAREL Website: https://www.angiecarel.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/angiecarel/ Fort Wayne AI: https://www.fortwayne-ai.com/ CONNECT WITH JASON PADGETT Jason Padgett | AI Solutions Architect | Co-Founder, Wooden Boy Industries | Host, AGI Podcast | AI Adoption, LLM Systems & Human-AI Workflows AGI - Advance Grow and Innovate with AI Podcast Network 🌐 https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/ CoFounder, Wooden Boy Industries 🌐 https://woodenboyindustriesai.com/ Chief Solutions Architect, Chakra AI Solutions 🌐 https://chakrasolutions.ai/ 📧 jason@agipodcast.ai | |||
| Indiana Women in Tech Week 5, The Future Needs Lifelong Learners Featuring Jenna Copper | 18 sept. 2026 | 00:29:36 | |
Jenna Cooper's first memorable computer lab was a gutted school bus filled with computers. Students walked across the parking lot, climbed aboard and learned Mavis Beacon typing and Oregon Trail. That early experience became one stop on a path from elementary education to technology leadership. For Episode 5 of 2026 Indiana Women in Tech Week, Jason Padgett talks with Jenna, Director of Technology & Innovation at the Central Indiana Educational Service Center. Jenna shares how a technology endorsement and an inspiring female professor helped her see a career she had not originally planned. Her work later grew from classroom technology and early one-to-one device programs into district leadership, professional learning, AI strategy, cybersecurity and data privacy. The central question is what an eighth grader should prepare for when no one can confidently predict what work will look like by the time that student reaches adulthood. Jenna's answer is lifelong learning. Stay curious. Take risks. Make mistakes. Tinker. Give young people the freedom to explore opportunities that may not exist yet. She also explains why modern school technology leaders need more than technical ability. They must understand students, teaching, organizational vision and the people affected by every technology decision. IN THIS EPISODE 00:27 Jenna's path from elementary education into technology 05:01 The computer lab inside a school bus 09:17 How K-12 technology leadership has changed 13:02 Helping girls see themselves in technology 15:31 Curiosity and lifelong learning in an uncertain future 18:54 Giving students space to explore 21:56 Mentorship and connection for technology leaders 25:30 Human intelligence plus artificial intelligence CONNECT WITH JENNA COOPER https://www.linkedin.com/in/lacoopj CIESC Technology & Innovation https://ciesc.org/service/technology-innovation/ CONNECT WITH JASON PADGETT Jason Padgett | AI Solutions Architect | Co-Founder, Wooden Boy Industries | Host, AGI Podcast | AI Adoption, LLM Systems & Human-AI Workflows AGI - Advance Grow and Innovate with AI Podcast Network 🌐 https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/ CoFounder, Wooden Boy Industries 🌐 https://woodenboyindustriesai.com/ Chief Solutions Architect, Chakra AI Solutions 🌐 https://chakrasolutions.ai/ 📧 jason@agipodcast.ai | |||
| Bring Your Full Self to Tech | Heather Darring | 15 sept. 2026 | 00:23:50 | |
DESCRIPTION What if the part of you that does not fit the old picture of a technology leader is exactly what the room needs? For Episode 4 of 2026 Indiana Women in Tech Week, Jason Padgett sits down with Heather Darring, Chief Information Officer at Kappa Alpha Theta Headquarters and president of the Indiana CIO Network. Heather's path did not begin with a traditional computer science plan. She studied oil painting, found her foundation in technology at Ball State, and started at the help desk before growing into executive leadership. Heather explains why technology is broad enough for many kinds of talent, why teams improve when people bring different experiences to the problem, and why leaders must build rooms where nobody has to carry the weight of being the only woman or minority. Her message to women in tech is direct: be yourself. Bring your gifts, perspective and full self into the room. Jason and Heather also discuss career changes, welcoming people from other industries, and a better way to think about imposter syndrome. Feeling off balance can mean you have reached a place where growth is possible. You can learn the next thing, ask for help and keep going. CHAPTERS 00:00 Welcome to Episode 4 00:33 Heather's start at the help desk 01:43 From oil painting to technology 04:11 Why girls still need deliberate encouragement 06:44 Technology, ethics and human flourishing 10:06 The many ways natural talent fits into tech 12:31 Creating rooms where no one is the only one 15:01 Why nontraditional career paths make teams stronger 18:07 Bring your full self into the room 20:47 Turning imposter syndrome into an opportunity to grow 23:21 Closing message for Indiana Women in Tech Week CONNECT WITH HEATHER DARRING LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/heather-darring-100/ CONNECT WITH JASON PADGETT Jason Padgett | AI Solutions Architect | Co-Founder, Wooden Boy Industries | Host, AGI Podcast | AI Adoption, LLM Systems & Human-AI Workflows AGI - Advance Grow and Innovate with AI Podcast Network 🌐 https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/ CoFounder, Wooden Boy Industries 🌐 https://woodenboyindustriesai.com/ Chief Solutions Architect, Chakra AI Solutions 🌐 https://chakrasolutions.ai/ 📧 jason@agipodcast.ai #IndianaWomenInTechWeek #WomenInTech #TechLeadership | |||
| Indiana Women in Tech Week 3 - Data Still Needs People | Toni Holcombe on AI and Data | 15 sept. 2026 | 00:20:02 | |
DESCRIPTION What happens when you put an AI model on top of a pile of files nobody has cleaned up? Toni Holcombe has a name for one version of that mess: a data swamp. And she has a clear answer when Jason asks whether AI will make data people irrelevant: someone still has to connect the words business users use with what the data actually means. For episode three of Indiana's Women in Tech Week, Jason sits down with Toni, a data strategy and governance professional he met at an AI and Coffee gathering in Fishers. Toni traces her path from Gateway tech support and paralegal work to teaching herself Python, building a data warehouse, and leading people through data work. They unpack bronze, silver and gold data layers in plain English, talk about structured and unstructured information, and examine why a confident answer from an LLM still needs checking. This conversation is for anyone trying to make sense of the data inside a small or growing organization, and for anyone curious about a career that mixes technical skill with people skill. CHAPTERS 00:00 Jason meets Toni during Indiana's Women in Tech Week 02:07 From Gateway tech support to data analytics 05:38 The data terms small businesses keep hearing 06:22 Bronze, silver and gold: from raw records to useful reports 08:29 Structured files, unstructured files and confident AI mistakes 13:03 How a data lake can turn into a data swamp 14:12 What Toni means by a data warehouse 15:37 Why data touches every part of a business 18:38 Will AI replace the data scientist or business analyst? 19:19 Closing and the education conversation ahead CONNECT WITH TONI HOLCOMBE LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/toni-holcombe/ CONNECT WITH JASON PADGETT Jason Padgett | AI Solutions Architect | Co-Founder, Wooden Boy Industries | Host, AGI Podcast | AI Adoption, LLM Systems & Human-AI Workflows AGI - Advance Grow and Innovate with AI Podcast Network 🌐 https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/ CoFounder, Wooden Boy Industries 🌐 https://woodenboyindustriesai.com/ Chief Solutions Architect, Chakra AI Solutions 🌐 https://chakrasolutions.ai/ 📧 jason@agipodcast.ai #WomenInTechWeek #DataStrategy #AGIPodcast | |||
| Who Gets to Control AI? Julie Koehrer on Risk, Work, and Public Trust | The Weekly Blitz | 14 sept. 2026 | 00:40:33 | |
AI risk stories are getting louder, regulation proposals are getting more serious, and most people still have a workday to finish. In this Indiana Women IN Tech Week special, Julie Koehrer and Jason Padgett sort through what deserves attention, what deserves skepticism, and where the human judgment still matters. Julie brings the perspective that makes The Weekly Blitz work: curious, grounded, willing to disagree, and always connected to how technology lands in real life. The conversation moves from catastrophic AI headlines to data center oversight, teacher workload, healthcare documentation, employee value, work-life balance, self-driving cars, and public surveillance. WHAT YOU'LL TAKE AWAY Why controlling increasingly capable AI is harder than writing a simple rule How AI productivity gains collide with work-life balance and workplace incentives Where AI may reduce administrative burden for teachers and healthcare workers Why public trust depends on accountability, not just technical capability How respectful disagreement can produce a better conversation than certainty ABOUT JULIE KOEHRER Julie Koehrer is a branding and marketing consultant and afternoon host at Lafayette's Q106.7. She co-hosts The Weekly Blitz, the AGI Podcast's fast Monday conversation about what changed in AI and what might matter during the workweek. RESOURCES MENTIONED Indiana Women IN Tech Week https://www.indianawomenintechweek.com/ The AGI Podcast Network https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/network Woof Boom Radio Indiana https://woofboom.com/indiana/ CONNECT WITH JASON PADGETT Jason Padgett | AI Solutions Architect | Co-Founder, Wooden Boy Industries | Host, AGI Podcast | AI Adoption, LLM Systems & Human-AI Workflows AGI - Advance Grow and Innovate with AI Podcast Network 🌐 https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/ CoFounder, Wooden Boy Industries 🌐 https://woodenboyindustriesai.com/ Chief Solutions Architect, Chakra AI Solutions 🌐 https://chakrasolutions.ai/ 📧 jason@agipodcast.ai TOOLS USED Riverside Spotify for Creators | |||
| Who Directs the Agents? Vibe Coding, AI Orchestration, and Human Judgment with Brent Rager | 14 sept. 2026 | 01:36:01 | |
AI can now write code, call tools, coordinate other agents, and keep working long after a single chat ends. Brent Rager and Jason Padgett trace what that shift means for builders, businesses, junior engineers, educators, and the people responsible for directing the work. Brent brings more than 20 years of engineering and technology leadership to a conversation that moves from transformers and GPUs into agent harnesses, model routing, autonomous workflows, local AI, cost, safety, and the future of technical work. The practical thread running through the episode is simple: the human role is moving upward. More people will define outcomes, select systems, judge results, and decide when an agent needs to stop and ask for help. WHAT YOU'LL TAKE AWAY Why customer understanding may matter more than coding speed How agent harnesses turn language models into systems that can act Where human review belongs in autonomous workflows Why junior engineers still matter when AI handles more of the code How local models, smaller models, and routing affect business costs What educators need to teach when AI becomes part of every profession Try this after the episode: choose one recurring workflow and write down the goal, the tools an agent may use, what success looks like, and the moment it must stop and ask a person. ABOUT BRENT RAGER Brent Rager is a Staff Software Engineer at Topstep and the founder and CEO/CTO of Smoo AI. He is a technology leader, full-stack engineer, and named AI patent author with more than 20 years of experience building products and leading teams. Website https://rager.tech/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/brentrager/ Smoo AI https://www.smoo.ai/ EPISODE SPONSOR Chakra AI Solutions https://chakrasolutions.ai/ RESOURCES MENTIONED Attention Is All You Need https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.03762 TopstepX https://www.topstep.com/topstepx Smoo AI https://www.smoo.ai/ TOOLS AND PLATFORMS MENTIONED ChatGPT Claude Codex OpenCode OpenRouter AWS Bedrock NVIDIA DGX Spark DeepSeek CONNECT WITH JASON PADGETT Jason Padgett | AI Solutions Architect | Co-Founder, Wooden Boy Industries | Host, AGI Podcast | AI Adoption, LLM Systems & Human-AI Workflows AGI - Advance Grow and Innovate with AI Podcast Network 🌐 https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/ CoFounder, Wooden Boy Industries 🌐 https://woodenboyindustriesai.com/ Chief Solutions Architect, Chakra AI Solutions 🌐 https://chakrasolutions.ai/ 📧 jason@agipodcast.ai | |||
| Women in Tech, Mentorship and Practical AI with Shaneeka Abram | 14 sept. 2026 | 00:46:04 | |
Women in Tech, Mentorship and Practical AI with Shaneeka Abram Getting into tech takes more than learning the tools. Shaneeka Abram joins me for Indiana Women in Tech Week to talk about the people who open doors, the barriers that remain, and how to use AI without pretending it replaces your expertise. Shaneeka's father taught her to code before she was particularly interested. That early start led to software development, consulting and AI education. She shares what it took to be heard in rooms where her work was questioned, and why she keeps showing up for the next generation. WHAT YOU'LL TAKE AWAY How early mentorship can create opportunities that take years to appreciate. Why visible role models and a community of peers matter for women entering tech. A practical starting point for AI: a business bottleneck in work you already understand. Why professional judgment still matters when anyone can generate code or an answer. We also talk about students questioning AI's answers and the questions communities deserve to ask about data centers. Shaneeka describes the disruption she experienced during nearby construction. We discuss bringing residents and experts into the same conversation, with room to say when we don't have an answer. ONE THING TO TRY Pick one recurring task you know well. Try AI on it, check the result against your own expertise, and write down what still needs a human decision. CHAPTERS 00:00 Indiana Women in Tech Week and meeting Shaneeka 03:40 Learning to code with her father 06:46 Listening to clients and moving into consulting 08:51 Facing barriers as a woman in tech 14:54 What has changed and why community matters 18:33 Helping small businesses make sense of AI 21:50 Getting young people interested in technology 24:17 Vibe coding and the value of expertise 26:31 Learning from our kids and questioning AI 30:14 Making women in tech visible 35:51 Data centers and the questions communities need answered 44:47 Co-facilitating the conversation and closing thoughts CONNECT WITH SHANEEKA ABRAM Brand architect, AI educator and speaker, Abundant Solutions Consulting LLC. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sreneeabram/ Abundant Solutions Consulting: https://www.linkedin.com/company/abundant-solutions-consulting-llc/ RESOURCES MENTIONED Indiana Women in Tech Week The AI Advantage, Shaneeka's business training Analytics Indiana CONNECT WITH JASON PADGETT Jason Padgett | AI Solutions Architect | Co-Founder, Wooden Boy Industries | Host, AGI Podcast | AI Adoption, LLM Systems & Human-AI Workflows AGI - Advance Grow and Innovate with AI Podcast Network 🌐 https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/ CoFounder, Wooden Boy Industries 🌐 https://woodenboyindustriesai.com/ Chief Solutions Architect, Chakra AI Solutions 🌐 https://chakrasolutions.ai/ 📧 jason@agipodcast.ai TOOLS DISCUSSED ChatGPT Google Gemini Claude Perplexity #WomenInTech #IndianaWomenInTechWeek #AI #AGIPodcast | |||
| From Tech Consumers to Creators: AI, Agency, and Student Work with Alexander Kutulas | 12 sept. 2026 | 01:02:27 | |
Students are entering a job market where AI can produce code, applications, and polished personal brands faster than ever. So what actually helps a young person stand out? Alexander Kutulas and Jason Padgett dig into agency, real-world experience, student creativity, and the skills that matter when the technical floor keeps rising. Alexander brings a student-builder's view from Purdue, where he studies computer science, organizes creative technical communities, and works on better ways to translate club experience into career evidence. The conversation moves from hackathons and cross-campus collaboration to entry-level hiring, fractional work, AI literacy, and the difference between consuming technology and creating with it. WHAT YOU'LL TAKE AWAY Why clubs, projects, and real experiences can teach what coursework alone cannot How AI changes the value of technical skill without removing the need for judgment Why students should learn to create with technology instead of only consuming it What employers miss when they rely on resumes and polished online brands Why agency, adaptability, and human conversation matter in an uncertain future Try this after the episode: choose one experience outside the classroom and document what you built, who you worked with, what changed, and what you learned. ABOUT ALEXANDER KUTULAS Alexander Kutulas is a Purdue University computer science student, entrepreneur, event organizer, and software engineer. His work includes HackFromScratch, Purdue Hackers, and Milestone, a project that helps students document club and hands-on experiences and translate them into career evidence. https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexander-kutulas/ RESOURCES MENTIONED Purdue Hackers https://www.purduehackers.com/ Scratch Foundation https://scratchfoundation.org/ TechPoint Xtern https://techpoint.org/xtern/ Center for Humane Technology https://www.humanetech.com/ TOOLS AND PLATFORMS MENTIONED ChatGPT Claude Codex CONNECT WITH JASON PADGETT Jason Padgett | AI Solutions Architect | Co-Founder, Wooden Boy Industries | Host, AGI Podcast | AI Adoption, LLM Systems & Human-AI Workflows AGI - Advance Grow and Innovate with AI Podcast Network 🌐 https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/ CoFounder, Wooden Boy Industries 🌐 https://woodenboyindustriesai.com/ Chief Solutions Architect, Chakra AI Solutions 🌐 https://chakrasolutions.ai/ 📧 jason@agipodcast.ai | |||
| Marketing in an AI World: The Skills Students Still Need to Build | 05 sept. 2026 | 00:53:44 | |
EPISODE DESCRIPTION When AI can write copy, analyze campaigns, generate research, and produce video, what should students still learn deeply enough to do themselves? David LaCombe, fractional CMO, educator, and author of Marketing2aT, argues that the answer starts with judgment. Technical fluency still matters, but young professionals also need business acumen, empathy, communication, perspective, and enough expertise to know when an AI answer is useful and when it is wrong. Jason and David move from marketing into a bigger education question: AI cannot remain a separate class or occasional classroom tool. It is becoming part of the work itself. They discuss design thinking, deliberate practice, AI as a thinking partner, T-shaped skills, the value of generalists and specialists, and why students need opportunities to test ideas, get feedback, and make decisions in uncertain conditions. The takeaway: prepare students to work with AI without handing their judgment over to it. Then look at your own curriculum and ask where AI should become part of the thread rather than an add-on. ABOUT THE GUEST David LaCombe is a fractional CMO, marketing educator, and author of Marketing2aT: Become the Marketer Every Team Wants. His work focuses on helping marketers connect technical skill with business judgment, communication, and cross-functional understanding. GUEST LINKS LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidlacombe TIME STAMPS 00:00 - From paramedic to marketer and author CONNECT WITH JASON PADGETT Jason Padgett | AI Solutions Architect | Co-Founder, Wooden Boy Industries | Host, AGI Podcast | AI Adoption, LLM Systems & Human-AI Workflows AGI - Advance Grow and Innovate with AI Podcast Network CoFounder, Wooden Boy Industries Chief Solutions Architect, Chakra AI Solutions 📧 jason@agipodcast.ai RESOURCES MENTIONED Marketing2aT: Become the Marketer Every Team Wants Yeshiva University Digital Marketing and Media Creativity, Inc. by Ed Catmull CORRECTION | |||
| Sex, Drugs, and Social Media Bans | 31 août 2026 | 00:37:35 | |
SEX, DRUGS, AND SOCIAL MEDIA BANS Meta’s multibillion-dollar settlement over alleged harm to young users raises an uncomfortable question: What happens when an algorithm becomes more compelling than the person standing beside you? Jason Padgett and Julie Koehrer start with teenagers, dopamine, sex, drugs, and the stress created by a nonstop stream of bad news. Then the conversation turns to AI agents, reward hacking, micromanagement, data centers, surveillance, and why so many people feel technology is being done to them instead of built with them. Jason shares the operating system he is building across four computers and explains why small organizations may get better results by defining the boundaries and desired outcome, then giving an AI agent room to find its own path. The same principle keeps surfacing: people need agency. Whether the issue is social media restrictions, workplace AI, data centers, or Flock cameras, informed participation matters more than another decision handed down from above. IN THIS EPISODE • How social media may compete with normal human connection TIME STAMPS 00:00 - Julie pauses ChatGPT for vacation RESOURCES MENTIONED Meta settlement over teen social media addiction, August 2026: Anthropic research on reward hacking in multi-agent systems: Raising AI by De Kai: MISO information on large electrical-load additions: Alpha School locations and tuition: HOST LINKS Jason Padgett The AGI Podcast Network Chakra AI Solutions Wooden Boy Industries Sprite CO-HOST LINKS Julie Koehrer LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/juliekoehrer | |||
| Agentic AI Is Turning Knowledge Workers Into Managers, Ready or Not | 29 août 2026 | 01:02:35 | |
EPISODE DESCRIPTION Agentic AI is changing the job description of ordinary knowledge workers before most companies have prepared them for it. Employees who once completed individual tasks are increasingly expected to delegate work to AI agents, question polished outputs, coordinate systems, and take responsibility for what gets produced. Crissy Koger, COO of Chakra AI Solutions, has spent more than a decade between executive leadership, developers, and end users. She and Jason talk about why systems thinking transfers so well to AI, how technical writing became an unexpectedly valuable skill, and whether organizations are ready for workers to manage teams of agents. The conversation also reaches into AI literacy in schools, the importance of women at the table when consequential technology decisions are made, and the human judgment that automation cannot be allowed to replace. The takeaway is direct: learning to use AI is only the beginning. We must learn to manage it. ABOUT THE GUEST Crissy Koger is the Chief Operating Officer at Chakra AI Solutions. Her career spans systems implementation, infrastructure, cybersecurity, Salesforce administration, software testing, process improvement, and executive strategy. She is especially good at translating between leaders, developers, and the people who must actually use the systems they build. GUEST LINKS Crissy Koger on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/crissykoger/ TIME STAMPS 00:00 - Crissy's career between executives, developers, and end users CONNECT WITH JASON PADGETT Jason Padgett LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jason-grant-padgett/ Wooden Boy Industries Sprite Chakra AI Solutions The AGI Podcast Network RESOURCES MENTIONED Anthropic AI Fluency Framework: https://www.anthropic.com/ai-fluency | |||
| AI in Education: Will Students Build the Future or Just Consume It? | 29 août 2026 | 01:14:04 | |
EPISODE DESCRIPTION Young people can use AI to build businesses, solve hard problems, and create things previous generations could not imagine. They can also spend the next decade consuming algorithmic sludge. That choice may decide whether the United States keeps its technological lead. This conversation is for educators, parents, students, and workforce leaders who know AI will change work but are tired of predictions that stop at fear. Purdue computer science student Nishad Patel joins Jason with a perspective shaped by growing up in Abu Dhabi and studying in Indiana. The problem is visible: too many students experience technology primarily as entertainment while other countries treat it as a building tool. Nishad and Jason examine jobs, trust, robotics, quantum computing, and the different signals young people receive in the United States and the UAE. WHAT YOU'LL LEARN Why knowledge work may change before skilled physical work. Why trust slows adoption. How the UAE connects education, infrastructure, and national ambition. What schools can do now to help students create with AI. THE TAKEAWAY The countries and schools that teach young people to build with AI will have more influence over what comes next. YOUR NEXT MOVE Ask one student what they have built with AI in the last month. If the answer is nothing, help them choose one real problem worth solving and begin there. ABOUT THE GUEST Nishad Patel is a Purdue University computer science student from Abu Dhabi and a 2026 information technology intern at Cummins. Through TechPoint's Xtern program, he has worked alongside Indiana's emerging technology community while exploring AI, software engineering, automation, and the future of technical work. GUEST LINKS LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nishad-patel/ TIME STAMPS 00:00 - From Abu Dhabi to Purdue computer science CONNECT WITH JASON PADGETT Jason Padgett Inspiring the conversations, thinking through how to talk with families about AI as shared ground, identifying practical first moves, and naming what is worth doing first, sized to the staff and time you have. 🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jason-grant-padgett/ Wooden Boy Industries Sprite The AGI Podcast Network Chakra AI Solutions RESOURCES MENTIONED TechPoint Xtern: https://techpoint.org/xtern-students/ | |||
| Weekly Blitz: AI Should Remove Desk Work, Not People: A Real Workflow Test | 24 août 2026 | 00:50:53 | |
EPISODE DESCRIPTION Jason promised Julie Koehrer an AI workflow that could take prospecting, proposal prep, order entry, and follow-up off her desk. The first two attempts were beautiful, polished, and completely wrong. The third finally found the point: AI should remove desk work, not Julie. That failure becomes the most useful part of the experiment. Jason and Julie talk through why context matters, where human judgment still belongs, and how much imperfection is acceptable when AI saves hours of repetitive work. Jason also offers Julie a one-month paid ChatGPT experiment so they can test the workflow in public. The conversation moves into local AI video production with MiniMax H3, the flood of automated solicitation on LinkedIn, and the growing fight over data centers, power, tax incentives, and public accountability. The practical thread holds: use AI to create more room for relationships and judgment, then make companies and public officials answer for the costs pushed onto communities. ABOUT THE CO-HOST Julie Koehrer is an on-air personality and branding and marketing consultant with Q106.7 and Woof Boom Radio in Lafayette, Indiana. She brings nearly two decades of radio experience and a practical marketer's skepticism to The Weekly Blitz. CO-HOST LINKS Julie Koehrer on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/juliekoehrer TIME STAMPS 00:00 - Julie's Joyful Journey celebrity softball game CONNECT WITH JASON PADGETT AGI PODCAST NETWORK School's Out Saturdays: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/ TOOLS JASON RECOMMENDS MindStudio → https://get.mindstudio.ai/q7n7u5cttkdq RESOURCES MENTIONED Joyful Journey Adult Day Service: https://joyfuljourneywl.org/ | |||
| Why AI Systems Fail: Employee Buy-In Before Automation with Olga Zippa | 23 août 2026 | 00:49:46 | |
EPISODE TITLE Why AI Systems Fail: Employee Buy-In Before Automation with Olga Zippa EPISODE DESCRIPTION If the people doing the work are the last people consulted, your new AI system is already in trouble. Olga Zippa came to systems work sideways. While pursuing acting in Vancouver, she took temporary administrative jobs across construction, healthcare, and other industries. She watched small teams with clear processes outperform much larger companies that ran on memory, inboxes, and constant founder intervention. That pattern became NextDay Executive. In Episode 4 of AI & The Humans in the Loop, Olga and Jason talk about the tacit knowledge hiding inside a business, why executive enthusiasm cannot replace employee buy-in, and where AI genuinely saves time. Olga shares how she uses meeting transcription and AI-assisted summaries without handing over the judgment her clients pay for. They also explore creativity, remote work, human connection, and the work people may choose to keep because it gives them purpose. The practical move is simple: map the real workflow with the people closest to it before buying another tool. ABOUT THE GUEST Olga Zippa is the founder and Business Systems Architect at NextDay Executive, where she builds operating systems for founder-led service firms. Her path began with temporary administrative roles across several industries while pursuing acting in Vancouver. She also appeared as Buffalo in Season 4 of Snowpiercer. GUEST LINKS LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/olgazippa/ TIME STAMPS 00:00 - From Snowpiercer to business systems CONNECT WITH JASON PADGETT LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jason-grant-padgett/ AGI PODCAST NETWORK AI & The Humans in the Loop: People who learned AI by doing, then applied it to real work. RESOURCES MENTIONED NextDay Executive: https://nextdayexecutive.com/ | |||
| When AI Cuts Entry-Level Jobs, Who Builds the Senior Workforce? | 22 août 2026 | 01:05:21 | |
EPISODE DESCRIPTION Companies cannot remove the bottom rung of the career ladder and expect a senior workforce to appear five years later. Shabbir Qutbuddin of Ivy Tech Community College joins Jason to talk about the 13 percent employment decline experienced by workers ages 22 to 25 in highly AI-exposed occupations, and what colleges, employers, and students can do about it. The answer reaches beyond adding another AI 101 course. They discuss Ivy Tech's AI pathways, apprenticeships, project-based learning, opportunities inside small and midsized businesses, and why students need to understand what happens under the hood of an AI model. The conversation also gets personal: sycophantic chatbots can feel easier than human relationships, but easy agreement comes with a cost. ABOUT THE GUEST Shabbir Qutbuddin is an Assistant Vice President at Ivy Tech Community College whose work spans information technology, entrepreneurship, and business education. He helps connect curriculum, employer demand, AI training, and workforce pathways for students across Indiana. GUEST LINKS LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shabbir-qutbuddin/ TIME STAMPS 00:00 - From India to Purdue and Ivy Tech CONNECT WITH JASON PADGETT Director of Growth and Partnerships at CitizenAI AGI PODCAST NETWORK School's Out Saturdays: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/ TOOLS JASON RECOMMENDS MindStudio → https://get.mindstudio.ai/q7n7u5cttkdq RESOURCES MENTIONED Stanford Digital Economy Lab, Canaries in the Coal Mine: https://digitaleconomy.stanford.edu/publication/canaries-in-the-coal-mine-six-facts-about-the-recent-employment-effects-of-artificial-intelligence/ | |||
| Julie Opens Up On: Brand Voice, Community, and Connection | 17 août 2026 | 00:50:04 | |
Voice, Community, Connection: Meet Weekly Blitz Co-Host Julie Koehrer Julie Koehrer believes a local radio station should do more than fill airtime. It should use its voice to build its community. In this Weekly Blitz special, Jason turns the microphone toward his co-host. Julie shares how nearly two decades in radio shaped her approach to sales, marketing, public speaking, and community service. She explains why memorable businesses need both an online presence and real human connection, why marketing results require patience, and why free local radio still matters. They also put Julie through a quick AI workflow exercise. Her wish list is refreshingly practical: help with invoicing, order entry, prospect research, and first-draft proposals so she can spend more time meeting people, attending conferences, and supporting the community. The conversation closes with a bigger question: what do we lose when useful information becomes subscription-only or is filtered entirely by algorithms? ABOUT JULIE KOEHRER Julie Koehrer is an on-air personality and branding and marketing consultant with Q106.7 and Woof Boom Radio in Lafayette, Indiana. She uses radio, digital marketing, public speaking, and community partnerships to help local organizations become memorable and easy to support. CONNECT WITH JULIE KOEHRER LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/juliekoehrer/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jkoeradio/ Q106.7: https://lafayetteq1067.com/ Woof Boom Radio: https://woofboom.com/indiana/julie-koehrer/ TIMESTAMPS 00:00 - Does It Matter If AI Helped Create It? 02:59 - Small Business Marketing Online And In Person 07:55 - Why Professional Ad Targeting Matters 11:14 - Meet Weekly Blitz Co-Host Julie Koehrer 15:14 - Using Your Voice To Build Community 23:15 - The Best Part Of Local Radio 25:35 - What Julie Would Hand Off To AI 34:11 - Why Soft Skills Need Clear Outcomes 37:30 - The Hardest Question In Marketing 39:18 - Why Free Local Radio Still Matters CONNECT WITH JASON PADGETT Jason Padgett | AI Solutions Architect | Co-Founder, Wooden Boy Industries | Host, AGI Podcast | AI Adoption, LLM Systems & Human-AI Workflows AGI - Advance Grow and Innovate with AI Podcast Network 🌐 https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/ CoFounder, Wooden Boy Industries 🌐 https://woodenboyindustriesai.com/ Chief Solutions Architect, Chakra AI Solutions 🌐 https://chakrasolutions.ai/ RESOURCES MENTIONED AM Radio for Every Vehicle Act: https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/315 National Association of Broadcasters AM Radio Advocacy: https://www.nab.org/advocacy/issue.asp?id=6719 HubSpot: https://www.hubspot.com/ Salesforce: https://www.salesforce.com/ | |||
| Become an AI Orchestrator: Harrison Painter on the New Most Valuable Human Skill | 16 août 2026 | 00:47:16 | |
What happens when people without a software background learn to direct AI agents, build working systems, and solve real business problems? Harrison Painter says they become AI orchestrators, and their value is about to climb. Harrison and Jason compare what they could do eight months ago with what they can build today. They get honest about the fear of terminals, the limits of vibe-coded software, why developers still matter, and how people can get paid while learning. The conversation also moves into education, where AI can help students keep asking questions, explore alternate histories, and learn at their own pace. ABOUT HARRISON PAINTER Harrison Painter is an Indianapolis-based executive AI advisor and founder of LaunchReady.ai. He created The 7 Levels of AI Proficiency, built AI Law Tracker, hosts the AI Ready Podcast, and authored two books on the AI workforce transition. GUEST LINKS Harrison Painter: https://harrisonpainter.com/ TIME STAMPS
CONNECT WITH JASON PADGETT Director of Growth and Partnerships at CitizenAI AGI PODCAST NETWORK School's Out Saturdays: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/ TOOLS JASON RECOMMENDS MindStudio → https://get.mindstudio.ai/q7n7u5cttkdq RESOURCES MENTIONED
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| AI Is Already Here: What K-12 Teachers and Students Need Now | 15 août 2026 | 00:57:12 | |
EPISODE DESCRIPTIONAI is already inside the world children inhabit, and waiting for perfect policy will leave teachers alone and students unguided. Indianapolis Catholic school leader Ronda Swartz joins Jason Padgett to make the case for beginning with teacher pain: return time lost to planning, grading, and repetitive work so educators can focus on students.They examine testing fatigue, project-based learning, voice as a doorway into student thinking, and personalization that builds from strengths instead of only repairing weaknesses. The conversation also gets honest about device dependence, children's mental health, anthropomorphism, sycophancy, student data, and the difference between a school-managed AI account and a personal one.Ronda's line for AI professional development is worth keeping: teach the tool, then create the sculpture. Schools need shared learning, clear guardrails, and a plan people will execute.ABOUT THE GUESTRonda Swartz is an Indianapolis Catholic school principal with nearly two decades of experience as a principal and executive director. She began as a public school educator in 1999 and now helps teachers explore practical AI use through Teacher Tuesday in the AI Launch Pad community.GUEST LINKSRonda Swartz on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rondaswartz3177272065/Teacher Tuesday on Skool: https://www.skool.com/ai-launch-pad/about?ref=6da44c20543646dfbd48cd032aa36886TIME STAMPS00:00 - Ronda's new school year and leadership background01:35 - Give teachers their time back07:50 - The whole child and the weight of testing15:28 - Redesigning school with families and communities18:55 - Personalization that builds from student strengths25:03 - AI as electricity, not one more classroom lamp32:19 - Children's mental health, sycophancy, and responsibility40:15 - Put AI literacy into the DNA of education47:23 - Teacher Tuesday and learning in community50:00 - School accounts, personal accounts, and student dataCONNECT WITH JASON PADGETTJason Padgett | AI Solutions Architect | Co-Founder, Wooden Boy Industries | Host, AGI Podcast | AI Adoption, LLM Systems & Human-AI WorkflowsAGI - Advance, Grow and Innovate with AI Podcast Network: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/Co-Founder, Wooden Boy Industries: https://woodenboyindustriesai.com/Chief Solutions Architect, Chakra AI Solutions: https://chakrasolutions.ai/Email: jason@agipodcast.aiTOOLS JASON RECOMMENDSMindStudio: https://get.mindstudio.ai/q7n7u5cttkdqRiverside.fm: https://riverside.sjv.io/e1xyBrWispr Flow: https://ref.wisprflow.ai/jason-padgettRESOURCES MENTIONEDClaude for Teachers, July 2026: https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-for-teachersNotebookLM: https://notebooklm.google/MagicSchool: https://www.magicschool.ai/SchoolAI: https://schoolai.com/Google Gemini for Education: https://edu.google.com/ai/gemini-for-education/Antiqua et Nova, Vatican note on AI and human intelligence, January 2025: https://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/documents/rc_ddf_doc_20250128_antiqua-et-nova_en.html2026 HECC Conference: https://hecc.k12.in.us/conference-info.htmlWooden Boy Industries: https://woodenboyindustriesai.com/ | |||
| Who Gets to Shape the AI Future? | AI4, Agents, Open Source, and Small Business | 10 août 2026 | 01:10:08 | |
AI is changing the rules faster than most people can make sense of them. In this Weekly Blitz, Jason Padgett talks with Nirav Nimish Shah, co-founder of Quantal AI, about what he saw at AI4 and what it means for people trying to keep up with AI without getting lost in hype or fear. They cover the move from copilots to agents, governance, security, open source, data privacy, AI companions, and why small businesses have a real opportunity to use AI before larger organizations fully catch up. WHAT YOU’LL TAKE AWAY How to think about practical AI adoption without ignoring risk. Why small businesses should start with useful, low-complexity AI workflows. When open-source or self-hosted models may make sense. Why technical skill alone is no longer enough for future engineers. Why AI literacy matters for families, students, and everyday workers. TAKEAWAY AI will change the world. Joining the conversation is how we increase the odds that it changes it for the better. GUEST Nirav Nimish Shah Co-Founder, Quantal AI AI engineer, AI consultant, and automation architect M.S. in Computer Science, Columbia University Former quant-trading technology professional at UBS https://www.linkedin.com/in/theniravshah/ Quantal AI https://www.linkedin.com/company/quantal-ai/ RESOURCES MENTIONED AI4 Conference Quantal AI ChatGPT Claude Gemini Open-source AI models CONNECT WITH JASON PADGETT Jason Padgett | AI Solutions Architect | Co-Founder, Wooden Boy Industries | Host, AGI Podcast | AI Adoption, LLM Systems & Human-AI Workflows AGI - Advance Grow and Innovate with AI Podcast Network 🌐 https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/ CoFounder, Wooden Boy Industries 🌐 https://woodenboyindustriesai.com/ Chief Solutions Architect, Chakra AI Solutions 🌐 https://chakrasolutions.ai/ 📧 jason@agipodcast.ai TOOLS MENTIONED ChatGPT Claude Gemini | |||
| AI Clarity for Businesses with Chakra's Adam Staples | 09 août 2026 | 00:56:51 | |
EPISODE DESCRIPTIONAdam Staples spent 25 years in revenue operations before he watched a $100 million SaaS company hand every employee an AI license and call it a strategy. It failed the way CRM rollouts have failed for decades: nobody at the top owned the result. Now he runs Chakra AI Solutions, and his pitch is the opposite of the enterprise consultants charging five figures a day. Map where your business actually spends its energy first, then let a foundation model plug in one chunk at a time.Jason and Adam get into BECA, Chakra's diagnostic for charting how work really flows through a company, and the Chakra Workbench, a Claude project that acts like an AI administrator for a 10 to 150 person business. They argue domain expertise beats another AI certification every time, why the best plumber makes a lousy company owner, and what happens to the workforce when 30 percent of people plus AI can do almost all of the work. Jason tells the story of the night Codex installed a tool on his Mac while he sat in a car 20 minutes away. Chakra's whole bet: scale the humans first, and the systems scale with them.ABOUT THE GUESTAdam Staples is the founder of Chakra AI Solutions in Indianapolis. He spent 25 years in revenue operations, most recently leading customer success operations at martech company Aprimo, before building Chakra around a blunt idea: businesses fail at AI for the same reason they failed at CRM rollouts, a lack of clarity about how work actually flows. Chakra maps that flow first, then coaches teams into foundation-model tools one piece at a time, aimed at the 10 to 150 person companies most AI consultants ignore.GUEST LINKSAdam Staples on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adam-staples-96a942a/Chakra AI Solutions on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/chakraaisolutions/Chakra AI Solutions: https://chakrasolutions.ai/TIME STAMPS00:00 - A new show for the humans in the loop01:38 - What Chakra is and a 25-year operations career03:39 - The secret sauce most businesses are missing05:20 - Why Monday.com and most tech rollouts fail08:26 - BECA: mapping where a business spends its energy13:19 - Clarity first, not a rip-and-replace of your stack18:01 - Coaching over deliverables: medicine, not diet24:48 - The late-night agent that installed a tool remotely44:40 - Domain expertise beats another AI certification55:22 - What Chakra actually costsCONNECT WITH JASON PADGETTJason Padgett | AI Solutions Architect | Co-Founder, Wooden Boy Industries | Host, AGI Podcast | AI Adoption, LLM Systems & Human-AI WorkflowsAGI - Advance Grow and Innovate with AI Podcast Network🌐 https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/CoFounder, Wooden Boy Industries🌐 https://woodenboyindustriesai.com/Chief Solutions Architect, Chakra AI Solutions🌐 https://chakrasolutions.ai/📧 jason@agipodcast.aiAGI PODCAST NETWORKSchool's Out Saturdays: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/Field Notes newsletter: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/field-notesIndiana AI education events: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/eventsAll AGI Podcast shows: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/networkRESOURCES MENTIONEDChakra AI Solutions: https://chakrasolutions.ai/Aprimo: https://www.aprimo.com/Monday.com: https://monday.com/Salesforce: https://www.salesforce.com/HubSpot: https://www.hubspot.com/Odoo: https://www.odoo.com/Acumatica: https://www.acumatica.com/Anthropic Claude: https://www.anthropic.com/claudeOpenAI (ChatGPT and Codex): https://openai.com/Google Gemini: https://gemini.google.com/Microsoft Copilot: https://copilot.microsoft.com/Cloudflare Workers and Agents: https://www.cloudflare.com/GitHub: https://github.com/NotebookLM: https://notebooklm.google.com/Simon Sinek: https://simonsinek.com/ | |||
| How to Grade Student Work When AI Can Write It | 08 août 2026 | 01:03:05 | |
Grading student work got harder the moment AI could write it. Mike Jones has a fix, and it starts with grading something other than the finished artifact.Most courses still assess a thing: the essay, the spreadsheet, the safety manual. AI produces things on demand, so faculty end up policing with detection software Mike says the data shows is unreliable.WHAT YOU'LL TAKE AWAYWhy the artifact stopped being evidence of learningThe five AI modes: hone, use, mediate, align, navigateThe second rubric, grading how students used the toolBoth equity gaps: banning AI, and saying "use whatever you want"Why a $20 subscription is not FERPA-safeTHE ASSESSMENT FIXMike's HUMAN framework gives five operational modes for AI in coursework: hone, use, mediate, align, and navigate. The first is hone, meaning no AI, and it exists because students have to build a foundation before they can audit what a machine hands them.His example is a workplace safety manual. AI will write you a good first draft. If you cannot explain how a forklift operates, you cannot check that draft, and you are still the human legally holding the outcome when someone gets hurt.HEART is the backward design side, producing two rubrics on the same assignment: one grading the demonstration of learning, one grading intentional use of the tool. The assignment often does not change. What changes is what you look at when you grade it.BOTH EQUITY GAPSBlock AI entirely and your students graduate into a workforce fluent in something they never touched. Say use whatever AI you want and one student brings a $100 ChatGPT account while another uses the free tier, so you built a gap trying to be generous.Mike also points to peer-reviewed research showing generative AI helping students with ADHD and dyslexia. His concern is what a blanket ban does next: it forces students to disclose a disability to earn an exception, then invites faculty to litigate whether the diagnosis is real.THE TAKEAWAYIf AI can produce the artifact, the artifact is no longer the evidence, so assessment has to move to the process a student can show and defend.YOUR CHALLENGETake one assignment you already teach. Label its AI level in the instructions, in plain language. Then write the second rubric that grades how the student used the tool.ABOUT MIKE JONESAI literacy and onboarding specialist, co-founder of AI Engines in Marion, Indiana, and creator of the HUMAN/HEART AI-Resilience Framework. 15 years in higher ed teaching and learning technology.LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mediamission/AI Engines: https://aiengines.work/RESOURCES MENTIONEDAI Engines services and HUMAN/HEART → https://aiengines.work/servicesHECC Conference, Indianapolis, November 2026 → https://hecc.k12.in.us/conference-info.htmlCONNECT WITH JASON PADGETTJason Padgett | AI Solutions Architect | Co-Founder, Wooden Boy Industries | Host, AGI Podcast | AI Adoption, LLM Systems & Human-AI WorkflowsAGI - Advance Grow and Innovate with AI Podcast Network 🌐 https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/CoFounder, Wooden Boy Industries 🌐 https://woodenboyindustriesai.com/Chief Solutions Architect, Chakra AI Solutions 🌐 https://chakrasolutions.ai/📧 jason@agipodcast.aiAVAILABLE FOR INTERVIEWS AND KEYNOTES ON AI IN EDUCATIONjason@agipodcast.aiAGI PODCAST SHOWSSchool's Out Saturdays: AI in education, K-12 through universityWeekly Blitz: AI news every MondayThe Vibe: Deep conversations, no clockAll platforms: https://linktr.ee/AGIPodcastFollow: Facebook + LinkedIn @AGIPodcast | Instagram @AGISchoolsout | X @NoCodeCAIOAI in education events around Indiana are listed at https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/TOOLS JASON RECOMMENDSRiverside.fm → https://riverside.sjv.io/e1xyBrWispr Flow → https://ref.wisprflow.ai/jason-padgett | |||
| Uncle Sam Buys Into AI Chips and ChatGPT Finally Sounds Like Jarvis | 03 août 2026 | 00:33:40 | |
EPISODE DESCRIPTIONJulie caught the story Jason missed: Washington took equity in seven AI chip firms. Then ChatGPT deployed an app to his Mac from 20 minutes away. On this Weekly Blitz, Jason and co-host Julie Koehrer work through the CHIPS Act equity deal, the US-China open-source fight, why Riverside's paywalled MCP connector has Jason ready to build his own tool, and the new GPT-Live voice that turned his phone into a remote for his whole computer.ABOUT THIS EPISODEThis episode of the Weekly Blitz covers the US Commerce Department taking minority non-voting equity in seven AI chip and compute companies under the CHIPS Act, the debate over state capitalism and a post-abundance economy, the open-source rivalry between American AI labs and China, Anthropic's copyright settlement and its model-security disclosure, the build-versus-buy case for vibe coding your own software, and OpenAI's new GPT-Live voice mode that pairs a real-time voice model with a background reasoning model. Hosts Jason Padgett and Julie Koehrer break down what each story means for people running small teams and classrooms, not just the big labs.TIME STAMPS00:00 - Catch-up and a new AGI show for non-developer developers01:32 - The government takes non-voting equity in seven AI chip companies04:33 - Socialism, capitalism, and what a post-abundance economy needs11:20 - The open-source fight and Anthropic's hypocrisy problem15:48 - Riverside, the MCP paywall, and vibe-coding a replacement19:03 - Tiered pricing everywhere: airlines, subscription cars, paid radio21:58 - Apple's rumored device leasing with a remote shutoff switch24:02 - The aha moment: ChatGPT's new voice and running a Mac from a phone30:33 - Rage bait, consumers vs creators, and the political temperatureCONNECT WITH JASON PADGETTJason Padgett | AI Solutions Architect | Co-Founder, Wooden Boy Industries | Host, AGI Podcast | AI Adoption, LLM Systems & Human-AI WorkflowsAGI - Advance Grow and Innovate with AI Podcast Network 🌐 https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/CoFounder, Wooden Boy Industries 🌐 https://woodenboyindustriesai.com/Chief Solutions Architect, Chakra AI Solutions 🌐 https://chakrasolutions.ai/📧 agipodcasters@gmail.comAGI PODCAST NETWORKSchool's Out Saturdays: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/Field Notes newsletter: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/field-notesIndiana AI education events: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/eventsAll AGI Podcast shows: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/networkRESOURCES MENTIONEDCommerce Department CHIPS Act equity stakes in seven companies, July 2026: https://thehill.com/policy/technology/6000186-commerce-ai-chips-stakes/OpenAI GPT-Live (ChatGPT's new voice), July 2026: https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-live/Anthropic authors copyright settlement, final approval July 2026: https://www.courthousenews.com/anthropic-to-pay-1-5-billion-copyright-settlement-to-authors-publishers/Anthropic disclosure on models accessing real company systems, July 31, 2026The Ezra Klein Show, Christopher Nolan Stared Into Elon Musk's Soul, Aug 2026: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/christopher-nolan-stared-into-elon-musks-soul/id1548604447 | |||
| Beginner’s Mind vs. the Engineers: The Non-Coder Rewiring Mental Health with AI | 02 août 2026 | 01:16:43 | |
EPISODE DESCRIPTION "In the beginner's mind the possibilities are limitless. In the expert's mind they are finite." Jason opens his new show with Suzuki Roshi because his first guest is the argument made flesh. Bill Mrklas has spent 26 years at BrainMaster Technologies, an Ohio manufacturer of EEG neurofeedback equipment that retrains brains struggling with anxiety, trauma, and autism instead of masking symptoms with medication. He is the sales and marketing guy. He had never typed a line of code, and a year ago couldn't have told you what a terminal was. Working with Claude and Claude Code, Bill specced and built a brain-training game from nothing: breath pacer, live EEG input over a WebSocket and Python bridge, visuals that respond to a patient's actual brainwaves. Core prototype in an afternoon, polished build in about 35 hours, in an industry where simpler games once consumed entire teams for months. His founder, a Bell Labs veteran who had dismissed AI as junk, kept asking who really coded it. Four months after meeting Claude himself, that founder built an encrypted remote neurofeedback platform he priced at ten engineers, one year, and seven figures. The heart of the episode is the fight the title promises. Bill's case: engineers build what someone else imagined, and now the person doing the imagining can build directly, so the creative mind finally has an engineering sidekick. Jason pushes on where experts still matter, what this new talent pool of orchestrators is worth to a business, and what happens to therapy when a sales VP can pair EMDR-style stimulation with electrochromic glasses so an autistic kid can do brain training on the floor playing Legos instead of strapped to a computer. Also in the mix: Ohio's data center fight and the 2 a.m. scolding from Claude that named Wooden Boy Industries. THE BUILDER'S TOOLKIT Claude + Claude Code in VS Code for spec documents, phase plans, and the build A second Claude instance running as a standing advisor WebSocket + Python bridge connecting EEG hardware to the game Claude Design for planning, then translating specs to coding agents Codex, Cowork, and ChatGPT voice mode for background work GUEST LINKS Bill Mrklas on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/william-mrklas-l-m-t-2817134/ BrainMaster Technologies: https://brainmaster.com/ TIME STAMPS 00:00 - A new show and a first guest 04:20 - The Vegas seminar that changed Bill's career 08:00 - The Bell Labs founder who asked "who coded it for you?" 10:16 - Jason's November turning point with Claude Code 15:55 - The undiscovered talent pool of AI orchestrators 19:18 - Using Claude Design as a liaison between agents 22:10 - Demo: a neurofeedback game built from scratch 28:41 - Electrochromic glasses and autism therapy 33:20 - Ohio, MAICON, and the data center fight 40:53 - The AI leaders nobody knows 47:54 - Bill's son at Florida Tech, where AI use is expected 51:40 - AI turns reporters into editors 59:35 - Brand becomes a vibe, not a hex code 1:08:00 - The hallway pictures that became a 3D room app 1:13:50 - The Wooden Boy origin story CONNECT WITH JASON PADGETT Jason Padgett AI Solutions Architect | Co-Founder, Wooden Boy Industries | Host, AGI Podcast | AI Adoption, LLM Systems & Human-AI Workflows AGI - Advance Grow and Innovate with AI Podcast Network 🌐 https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/ CoFounder, Wooden Boy Industries 🌐 https://woodenboyindustriesai.com/ Chief Solutions Architect, Chakra AI Solutions 🌐 https://chakrasolutions.ai/ 📧 agipodcasters@gmail.com AGI PODCAST NETWORK School's Out Saturdays: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/ No-Code CAIO Newsletter: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/newsletter/ RESOURCES MENTIONED Moonshots with Peter Diamandis, featuring Alex Wissner-Gross Empire of AI by Karen Hao (2025) Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind by Shunryu Suzuki MAICON, the Marketing AI Conference, Cleveland | |||
| Rural Schools, Real AI: A Teacher’s Blueprint for K-12 AI Literacy | 31 juil. 2026 | 01:11:26 | |
EPISODE DESCRIPTIONRensselaer, Indiana has about 5,400 people, one high school, and a wrestling coach who built one of the more disciplined AI implementation models in the state without anyone telling him to. Hunter Hickman teaches English and coaches wrestling at Rensselaer Central High School in Jasper County, Indiana's most rural county, and became his district's AI lead after a 2024 conference session at the CELL Early College Summit shook loose some bad assumptions about plagiarism and policy.Hunter walks through his own action research on AI and student writing. Kids with AI access ask their teachers more questions, not fewer, because the tool works best when it turns instructors into coaches instead of graders. He and Jason get into Claude for Teachers, the FERPA and DPA questions every district is quietly asking, and why Hunter refuses to let his school get married to a single product, Con Migo included. Jason argues AI is a general purpose technology that belongs baked into every subject, not bolted onto a computer science elective. Hunter pushes back with a case for expertise worth hearing all the way through, plus how his school decided when kids get access to AI at all.ABOUT THE GUESTHunter Hickman teaches English and coaches wrestling at Rensselaer Central High School in Jasper County, Indiana, where he also serves as the district's AI implementation lead. He holds a master's in English and education and an administrator license through Purdue, and in 2025 finished action research on how AI affects student writing outcomes. Hunter now runs Hickman Consulting LLC, providing AI professional development to Indiana schools, and has presented at CIESC, Indiana Connected Educators, Purdue's AI in P-12 conference, and the Indiana DOE AI Collaborative.GUEST LINKSLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hunter-hickman-m-s-2b501383/Hickman Consulting LLC: https://www.hickmanconsultingai.com/TIME STAMPS00:00 - Intro and Jason's new AI and the Humans in the Loop project00:47 - Hunter introduces Jasper County and Rensselaer Central02:12 - How Hunter became Jasper County's district AI lead06:23 - The CELL Early College Summit wake up call13:02 - Action research findings: the sequestered writing problem19:38 - Coach versus instructor: rethinking the teacher's role28:09 - Claude for Teachers, Con Migo, and the FERPA question44:34 - Jason's pitch: AI as a general purpose technology47:23 - Hunter's pushback: why expertise still matters57:10 - Mr. Potato Head and Indiana's new cellphone law1:05:13 - Closing thoughts on leaning into AI without losing yourselfCONNECT WITH JASON PADGETTJason PadgettHost of the AGI - Advance Grow and Innovate with AI Podcast Network🌐 https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/CoFounder, Wooden Boy Industries🌐 https://woodenboyindustriesai.com/Chief Solutions Architect, Chakra AI Solutions🌐 https://chakrasolutions.ai/📧 agipodcasters@gmail.comAGI PODCAST NETWORKSchool's Out Saturdays: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/Field Notes newsletter: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/field-notesIndiana AI education events: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/eventsAll AGI Podcast shows: schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/networkTOOLS JASON RECOMMENDSMindStudio → https://get.mindstudio.ai/q7n7u5cttkdqRiverside.fm → https://riverside.sjv.io/e1xyBrWispr Flow → https://ref.wisprflow.ai/jason-padgettRESOURCES MENTIONEDClaude for Teachers (Anthropic, July 2026): https://claude.com/solutions/teachersKhan Academy / Khanmigo (Con Migo in audio): https://www.khanmigo.ai/MagicSchool AI: https://www.magicschool.ai/School AI: https://schoolai.com/NotebookLM / Gemini Notebooks: https://notebooklm.google/The Anxious Generation by Jonathan HaidtOutdoor Kids in an Inside World by Steven RinellaThe Daily Stoic podcast: https://dailystoic.com/Indiana Senate Enrolled Act 78, bell-to-bell cellphone law, signed March 2026 | |||
| OpenAI's Paperclip Maximizer Moment and UAPs: Jason & Julie Go Full Mad Max | 27 juil. 2026 | 00:39:40 | |
EPISODE DESCRIPTION OpenAI ran a cybersecurity benchmark called ExploitGym with the usual safety refusals turned down, and the model under test decided the fastest route to a high score was to stop taking the test. GPT-5.6 Sol chained a zero-day in internally hosted third party software, got itself onto the open internet, walked into Hugging Face production infrastructure, and took the answer key. Hugging Face caught the intrusion on its own and called law enforcement before anyone told them the attacker was a lab experiment. Jason calls this the paperclip maximizer moment, and he bought post-apocalyptic sunglasses to mark the occasion. The reward function said win the test. Nobody specified which door to use. Julie asks who gets held accountable. For now the answer is nobody. From there the conversation turns to China, where Kimi K3 shipped at 2.8 trillion parameters with the weights given away, and where the play is to make the model layer worthless rather than win it outright. Also here: Mira Murati and Thinking Machines, why computer science programs still train students for a job that is disappearing, and a detour through UAPs, Neil Armstrong, and whether the government breadcrumbs on purpose. TIME STAMPS 00:00 - Energy efficient AI companies and Julie's marketing class 02:27 - Moonshots, Elon timelines, and UAP transparency 09:11 - The three fingers test for AI video 10:14 - The paperclip maximizer moment and the Road Warrior glasses 13:48 - GPT-5.6 Sol breaks its sandbox and hits Hugging Face 15:32 - Deception, accountability, and the case the Doomers make 17:32 - China's open weight play and Kimi K3 23:53 - What computer science students actually need to learn now 28:55 - Mira Murati, Thinking Machines, and on-prem fine-tuning 35:12 - Empathy mapping and where embodied AI goes next CONNECT WITH JASON PADGETT Founder, Wooden Boy Industries 📧 jason@agipodcast.ai LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jason-grant-padgett/ X: https://x.com/NoCodeCAIO Newsletter (No Code CAIO): https://www.linkedin.com/build-relation/newsletter-follow?entityUrn=7399599285849346048 Available for interviews and keynotes on AI in education → jason@agipodcast.ai AGI PODCAST NETWORK School's Out Saturdays: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/ Field Notes newsletter: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/field-notes Indiana AI education events: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/events All AGI Podcast shows: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/network TOOLS JASON RECOMMENDS MindStudio → https://get.mindstudio.ai/q7n7u5cttkdq Riverside.fm → https://riverside.sjv.io/e1xyBr Wispr Flow → https://ref.wisprflow.ai/jason-padgett RESOURCES MENTIONED OpenAI sandbox breakout disclosure, July 21, 2026. Models tested: GPT-5.6 Sol and an unreleased successor. Benchmark: ExploitGym Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co The paperclip maximizer thought experiment, Nick Bostrom, 2003 Kimi K3, Moonshot AI. 2.8 trillion parameters, open weights, released July 16, 2026 Thinking Machines Lab, founded by Mira Murati, former OpenAI chief technology officer Cursor, the AI coding environment, acquired by SpaceX in a deal announced June 16, 2026 Moonshots podcast with Peter Diamandis TechPoint, Indiana's technology growth initiative OpenAI Codex Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior, 1981 | |||
| Launching Wooden Boy Industries: CitizenAI, Open Models, and the Midwest AI Opportunity | 21 juil. 2026 | 00:28:11 | |
EPISODE DESCRIPTIONJason is launching Wooden Boy Industries, his own AI consulting practice focused on AI consulting, education, workforce development, and solution architecture. He is staying on as an advisor to CitizenAI, where he spent part of this year helping the platform get its footing with Silicon Valley engineers he still credits for a lot of his growth. Jason and Weekly Blitz co-host Julie Koehrer break down a loaded AI news week: New York became the first state to sign a statewide moratorium on new hyperscale data centers, Moonshot AI released Kimi K3, an open source model with roughly 2.8 trillion parameters, and former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab shipped its first open weight model. Jason argues the real story is on-prem. Companies are realizing the smartest labs might be training on their business data every time they run a workflow through a closed model, and Figma's Claude Design problem is the cautionary tale he keeps coming back to. Also covered: Apple's trade secret lawsuit against OpenAI, the ongoing Musk and Altman back and forth, and a meme about orbital data centers that had to happen. CONNECT WITH JASON PADGETTFounder, Wooden Boy Industries | Advisor, CitizenAI📧 jason@agipodcast.aiLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jason-grant-padgett/X: https://x.com/NoCodeCAIONewsletter (No Code CAIO): https://www.linkedin.com/build-relation/newsletter-follow?entityUrn=7399599285849346048Available for interviews and keynotes on AI in education → jason@agipodcast.ai AGI PODCAST NETWORKSchool's Out Saturdays: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/Field Notes newsletter: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/field-notesIndiana AI education events: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/eventsAll AGI Podcast shows: https://agipodcast.ai/network TOOLS JASON RECOMMENDSMindStudio → https://get.mindstudio.ai/q7n7u5cttkdqRiverside.fm → https://riverside.sjv.io/e1xyBrWispr Flow → https://ref.wisprflow.ai/jason-padgett RESOURCES MENTIONEDKimi K3 (Moonshot AI open source model, ~2.8T parameters, July 2026)Inkling (Thinking Machines Lab's first open weight model, released July 16, 2026)New York data center moratorium, Executive Order No. 62, signed by Gov. Kathy Hochul, July 14, 2026Apple's trade secret lawsuit against OpenAI, filed July 10, 2026Claude Cowork and Claude Design (Anthropic)ChatGPT Codex (OpenAI)NVIDIA chip export policy to ChinaGreater Lafayette Chamber of Commerce | |||
| AI in Catholic Education: What K-12 Schools Owe Their Students | 18 juil. 2026 | 01:01:31 | |
EPISODE DESCRIPTION Schools should not race to keep pace with the digital world. They should give students what the digital world cannot: shared time for learning and trustworthy relationships. Jason Padgett sits down with Lewis Poché of the University of Notre Dame’s Alliance for Catholic Education to ask what that principle demands in the age of AI. Lewis makes the case for teaching AI literacy before handing young students unrestricted tools. He explains why schools must protect the learning process instead of judging only the finished product, how sycophancy and anthropomorphism can distort a child’s relationship with AI, and why blanket bans repeat mistakes schools made with social media. The conversation moves from kindergarten image-analysis lessons to Pope Leo XIV’s Magnifica Humanitas, teacher use of AI, student guardrails, and the three dimensions of AI literacy: technical, dispositional, and practical. ABOUT THE GUEST Lewis Poché is the Associate Program Director of Higher-Powered Learning at the University of Notre Dame’s Alliance for Catholic Education. A member of the 26th ACE Teaching Fellows cohort, he taught middle school math and science at Sacred Heart Nativity Schools in San Jose after studying engineering and philosophy at Southern Methodist University. His work helps Catholic school educators and leaders connect technology decisions to student formation, human dignity, and sound teaching practice. GUEST LINKS LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lewispoche/ Notre Dame ACE profile: https://ace.nd.edu/people/lewis-poche Step Up EdTech: https://www.lewispoche.com/ TIME STAMPS 00:00 - Lewis Poché and the K-12 AI question 06:01 - Teacher time, better feedback, and richer assessment 08:40 - Product versus process in student learning 12:06 - Teaching students to become creators and explorers 18:07 - Magnifica Humanitas, Nehemiah, and the educator’s role 24:00 - Why banning AI for younger students repeats the social media mistake 30:42 - Sycophancy, anthropomorphism, and young learners 40:26 - The technical, dispositional, and practical sides of AI literacy 48:43 - What schools can offer that the digital world cannot 52:15 - Teachers using AI while students are told they cannot 59:10 - Guardrails, caution, and testing the limits of school AI tools CONNECT WITH JASON PADGETT AI Solutions Architect 📧 jasongrantpadgett@gmail.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jason-grant-padgett/ X: https://x.com/NoCodeCAIO Newsletter (No Code CAIO): https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/newsletter/ Available for interviews and keynotes on AI in education → https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/events AGI PODCAST NETWORK School's Out Saturdays: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/ Field Notes newsletter: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/field-notes Indiana AI education events: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/events All AGI Podcast shows: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/network TOOLS JASON RECOMMENDS MindStudio → https://get.mindstudio.ai/q7n7u5cttkdq Riverside.fm → https://riverside.sjv.io/e1xyBr Wispr Flow → https://ref.wisprflow.ai/jason-padgett RESOURCES MENTIONED Higher-Powered Learning: https://ace.nd.edu/programs/hpl AI in Catholic Education: https://ace.nd.edu/programs/higher-powered-learning/ai-catholic-education Magnifica Humanitas: https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/encyclicals/documents/20260515-magnifica-humanitas.html Common Sense Media research on teen use of AI companions: https://www.commonsensemedia.org/research/talk-trust-and-trade-offs-how-and-why-teens-use-ai-companions MagicSchool: https://www.magicschool.ai/ SchoolAI: https://schoolai.com | |||
| Eighty Hours in Ninety Minutes: What AI Agent Teams Change | 14 juil. 2026 | 00:37:18 | |
ABOUT THIS EPISODE This Weekly Blitz episode explains how non-technical professionals can coordinate AI agents, choose among current frontier and open models, and identify a first task worth automating. It answers why model routing and local inference matter, how human edits can train a reusable writing skill, and what AI changes in classrooms when producing the answer becomes easy. ABOUT THE CO-HOST Julie Koehrer is an on-air personality and branding and marketing consultant at Lafayette’s Q106.7. On The Weekly Blitz, she tests AI claims against local business, family life, marketing, and the time an ordinary person has to learn another tool. CO-HOST LINKS LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/juliekoehrer Q106.7: https://lafayetteq1067.com/ TIME STAMPS 00:00 - Meta camera-roll claims, AI glasses, and privacy 08:41 - Seven agents and 80 to 100 hours of work in 90 minutes 12:05 - Codex, Claude CoWork, Claude Code, and choosing the right seat 14:24 - Fable 5, Mythos 5, export controls, and vendor dependence 16:56 - GPT-5.6 and the new price-and-capability race 18:32 - GLM-5.2, local models, model routing, and business continuity 20:26 - Grok 4.5, Cursor data, and Jason’s model-selection hierarchy 23:02 - The first automation question for a non-technical user 25:15 - NotebookLM, voice guides, and learning from every human edit 31:00 - AI in classrooms: answer machines, curiosity, and the students who still do the work CONNECT WITH JASON PADGETT Director of Growth and Partnerships at CitizenAI 📧 jason@mycitizen.ai LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jason-grant-padgett/ X: https://x.com/NoCodeCAIO No Code CAIO newsletter: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/newsletter/ Available for interviews and keynotes on AI in education: jason@mycitizen.ai AGI PODCAST NETWORK School's Out Saturdays: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/ Field Notes newsletter: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/field-notes Indiana AI education events: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/events All AGI Podcast shows: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/network TOOLS JASON RECOMMENDS MindStudio: https://get.mindstudio.ai/q7n7u5cttkdq Riverside.fm: https://riverside.sjv.io/e1xyBr Wispr Flow: https://ref.wisprflow.ai/jason-padgett RESOURCES MENTIONED OpenAI GPT-5.6, July 9, 2026: https://openai.com/index/gpt-5-6/ Anthropic Fable 5 and Mythos 5 redeployment, June 30, 2026: https://www.anthropic.com/news/redeploying-fable-5 Z.ai GLM-5.2, June 16, 2026: https://z.ai/blog/glm-5.2 SpaceXAI Grok 4.5, July 8, 2026: https://x.ai/news/grok-4-5 Cursor and Grok 4.5 joint training, July 8, 2026: https://cursor.com/blog/grok-4-5 Meta Muse Spark 1.1, July 9, 2026: https://ai.meta.com/blog/introducing-muse-spark-meta-model-api/ Meta AI glasses privacy FAQ, July 2026: https://about.fb.com/news/2026/07/metas-ai-glasses-your-questions-answered/ NotebookLM: https://notebooklm.google/ | |||
| TechPoint and CICP: Indiana's AI Talent Pipeline and Startup Bet | 06 juil. 2026 | 00:56:30 | |
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| Protecting Our Kids in the Age of AI With Former DOJ Prosecutor Tiffany Preston | 04 juil. 2026 | 01:07:18 | |
EPISODE DESCRIPTIONTiffany Preston spent 19 years putting away the kind of people most of us never want to think about. As a federal prosecutor she convicted Buster Hernandez, the "Brian Kil" sextortionist who threatened at least 375 kids and drew a 75-year sentence. So when she talks about how AI is changing crimes against children, it lands differently.She and Jason get into the part that should worry every parent. Generative AI has made it nearly impossible to prove whether an explicit image is real, and predators are weaponizing that against kids who never did anything. A kid gets a message: a video of you exists, pay up or it goes to everyone you know, and good luck proving it is fake.Her advice is specific and hard-won. Back away from the phone. Do not respond, because engaging is what the predator wants. Get law enforcement involved, and tell your kid you will love them even if they made a mistake, because shame is the weapon. They also cover the family safe word that beats AI voice-cloning scams, the Character.AI case, The Anxious Generation, and why you cannot out-tech your own children.CONTENT NOTEThis episode discusses online child exploitation, sextortion, and suicide. If you or someone you know needs support, call or text 988.ABOUT THE GUESTTiffany Preston spent 19 years as a federal prosecutor, most of them as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Southern District of Indiana, where she specialized in internet crimes against children and served as the district's Project Safe Childhood, Human Trafficking, and Kidnapping Coordinator. She prosecuted Buster Hernandez, the "Brian Kil" mass sextortionist sentenced to 75 years in federal prison for crimes against at least 375 minors. She left the DOJ in December 2025 and is now a Litigation Senior Attorney at Cook Medical in Bloomington, Indiana. She speaks regularly to parents and schools about keeping kids safe online.GUEST LINKSCook Medical: https://www.cookmedical.com/TIME STAMPS00:00 - 19 years prosecuting crimes against children25:58 - Why generative AI images are breaking child exploitation cases28:35 - The family friend who used AI to target a child he knew33:10 - Back away from the phone, and the "be boring" rule39:00 - I love you and I'll help you even if you made a mistake44:44 - The family safe word that beats AI voice cloning47:41 - The Anxious Generation and social media built like a slot machine52:03 - You cannot out-tech your kids57:06 - The Character.AI case and AI toys headed for kids' rooms1:04:12 - Is superintelligence around the cornerCONNECT WITH JASON PADGETTDirector of Growth and Partnerships at CitizenAI📧 jason@mycitizen.aiLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jason-grant-padgett/X: https://x.com/NoCodeCAIONewsletter (No Code CAIO): https://www.linkedin.com/build-relation/newsletter-follow?entityUrn=7399599285849346048Available for interviews and keynotes on AI in education → jason@mycitizen.aiAGI PODCAST NETWORKSchool's Out Saturdays: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/Field Notes newsletter: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/field-notesIndiana AI education events: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/eventsAll AGI Podcast shows: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/networkTOOLS JASON RECOMMENDSMindStudio → https://get.mindstudio.ai/q7n7u5cttkdqRiverside.fm → https://riverside.sjv.io/e1xyBrWispr Flow → https://ref.wisprflow.ai/jason-padgettRESOURCES MENTIONEDThe Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt: https://www.anxiousgeneration.com/Buster Hernandez "Brian Kil" DOJ case: https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdin/pr/child-predator-and-cyberterrorist-buster-hernandez-aka-briankil-sentenced-75-yearsGarcia v. Character Technologies (Character.AI wrongful death case)Indiana Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force: https://www.in.gov/isp/icactf/NCMEC CyberTipline: https://report.cybertip.org/FBI tips: https://tips.fbi.gov/ | |||
| OpenAI's $50M People-First AI Fund: How Nonprofits Win | 29 juin 2026 | 00:57:32 | |
EPISODE DESCRIPTION OpenAI is handing out 50 million dollars in unrestricted cash to nonprofits, and the application closes July 15. Julie is off this week, so Jason Padgett brought in his boss, CitizenAI Chief Operating Officer Oliver Belanger, to break down the OpenAI Foundation's 2026 People-First AI Fund and what it takes to actually win it. The pitch is almost suspiciously simple. Grants run up to 10 percent of your annual operating budget, the money hits your books as unrestricted funds, the reporting is light, and OpenAI does not even require you to use ChatGPT. Eligibility covers U.S. 501c3 nonprofits with annual budgets between 500K and 10 million dollars, across three categories: community support services, arts and culture, and journalism and media. CitizenAI is already helping nonprofits write and submit, starting in Indiana. They also get into why the labs are suddenly courting a public that hands them a 28 percent approval rating, Anthropic's 150 million dollar Claude Corps, open-weight models like GLM, and the AI skills that still matter once the model writes your email. ABOUT THE GUEST Oliver Belanger is the Chief Operating Officer of CitizenAI, an AI platform that connects people with social benefit programs and helps nonprofits, community colleges, and healthcare systems adopt AI. A software engineer who entered tech through a workforce development program, he leads CitizenAI's work helping nonprofits apply for the OpenAI People-First AI Fund. GUEST LINKS Oliver Belanger on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/oliverbelanger/ CitizenAI: https://mycitizen.ai CitizenAI on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/mycitizenai TIME STAMPS 00:00 - Julie is out, CitizenAI's COO steps in 00:56 - OpenAI's 50 million dollar People-First AI Fund 02:28 - How OpenAI went from nonprofit to public benefit 05:30 - Why the AI labs flipped from fear to public good 08:31 - The three grant categories and who qualifies10:07 - Why unrestricted funds and light reporting matter 13:43 - No ChatGPT required, plus Codex vs Claude 17:15 - Open-weight economics: GLM at 30 cents per million tokens 22:22 - The AI skills that actually hold value 46:34 - Anthropic's 150 million dollar Claude Corps 47:56 - Talent wars across the frontier labs 55:21 - Last words: how CitizenAI helps you win the cash CONNECT WITH JASON PADGETT Director of Growth and Partnerships at CitizenAI 📧 jason@mycitizen.aiLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jason-grant-padgett/ X: https://x.com/ NoCodeCAIONewsletter (No Code CAIO): https://www.linkedin.com/build-relation/newsletter-follow?entityUrn=7399599285849346048 Available for interviews and keynotes on AI in education → jason@mycitizen.ai AGI PODCAST NETWORK School's Out Saturdays: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/Field Notes newsletter: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/field-notesIndiana AI education events: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/events All AGI Podcast shows: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/network TOOLS JASON RECOMMENDSMindStudio → https://get.mindstudio.ai/q7n7u5cttkdqRiverside.fm → https://riverside.sjv.io/e1xyBrWispr Flow → https://ref.wisprflow.ai/jason-padgett RESOURCES MENTIONED GRANTS AND PROGRAMS OpenAI People-First AI Fund: https://openaifoundation.org/news/2026-people-first-ai-fund OpenAI Foundation: https://openaifoundation.org/Anthropic Claude Corps: https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-corps CitizenAI on TechPoint: https://techpoint.org/ai-resources/citizenai/ AI TOOLS AND MODELS ChatGPT: https://chatgpt.com/ OpenAI Codex: https://openai.com/codex/Claude: https://claude.ai/ Grok by xAI: https://grok.com/Microsoft Copilot: https://copilot.microsoft.com/ GLM open-weight models by Z.ai: https://z.ai/ MagicSchool AI: https://www.magicschool.ai/ SchoolAI: https://schoolai.com/ WorkBoard: https://www.workboard.com/ | |||
| AI in Early Childhood Education with Morgan Mason | 25 juin 2026 | 00:53:55 | |
Morgan Mason works with early childhood educators, coaches, and school leaders through Keep Indiana Learning, and she brings a grounded view to a conversation that can get weird fast: what should AI do around young children? Jason and Morgan talk through AI toys, Mr. Potato Head with a language model inside, the risks of sycophancy and anthropomorphism, and the bigger opportunity sitting right beside those risks. AI could help educators communicate with families across language barriers, support early literacy, plan better lessons, and give teachers time back for the human parts of the job. This episode stays with the early childhood and K-6 question. Young kids need play, relationships, curiosity, and adults who are paying attention. They also need adults who are willing to learn enough about AI to guide them. ABOUT THE GUEST Morgan Mason is a Professional Learning Specialist with Keep Indiana Learning, the professional learning department of CIESC. Her work focuses on early childhood, early literacy, coaching, and support for educators and school leaders across Indiana. Before joining Keep Indiana Learning, she taught elementary grades and served as an instructional coach. GUEST LINKS LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/morgan-mason-9719b9235/ Keep Indiana Learning: https://keepindianalearning.org/ CIESC: https://ciesc.org/ TIME STAMPS 00:00 - Morgan Mason and Keep Indiana Learning 02:47 - Activity-based learning, Alpha School, and the Path School 04:59 - AI for young children and why early educators are cautious 08:28 - Social media, guardrails, and the mistake of waiting too long 12:00 - Sycophancy, anthropomorphism, and AI relationships 15:07 - Language development and AI as a possible support 18:28 - The Schoolhouse Rock version of how LLMs work 21:00 - MagicSchool AI, teacher training, and district adoption 30:19 - Morgan's tool stack: ChatGPT, NotebookLM, Gemini, and Canva 37:00 - Indiana's AI education momentum 40:31 - Student-centered coaching as an adoption model 47:11 - Letting kids show adults what AI can make possible CONNECT WITH JASON PADGETT Director of Growth and Partnerships at CitizenAI 📧 jason@mycitizen.ai LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jason-grant-padgett/ X: https://x.com/NoCodeCAIO Newsletter (No Code CAIO): https://www.linkedin.com/build-relation/newsletter-follow?entityUrn=7399599285849346048 Available for interviews and keynotes on AI in education → jason@mycitizen.ai AGI PODCAST NETWORK School's Out Saturdays: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/ Field Notes newsletter: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/field-notes Indiana AI education events: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/events All AGI Podcast shows: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/network TOOLS JASON RECOMMENDS MindStudio → https://get.mindstudio.ai/q7n7u5cttkdq Riverside.fm → https://riverside.sjv.io/e1xyBr Wispr Flow → https://ref.wisprflow.ai/jason-padgett RESOURCES MENTIONED - Keep Indiana Learning: https://keepindianalearning.org/ - CIESC: https://ciesc.org/ - Alpha School: https://alpha.school/ - The Anxious Generation: https://www.anxiousgeneration.com/ - MagicSchool AI: https://www.magicschool.ai/ - NotebookLM: https://notebooklm.google.com/ - Canva: https://www.canva.com/ - ChatGPT: https://chatgpt.com/ - Claude: https://claude.ai/ - Replit: https://replit.com/ - Codex: https://openai.com/codex/ | |||
| What Managing Two AI Agents Taught Me About the Future of Work | 22 juin 2026 | 00:37:30 | |
Jason put OpenAI's Codex and Claude CoWork in the same Slack channel and told them to automate his workflow. They saved hours, built working software, duplicated work, defended territory, missed messages, and required more management than either agent expected.That experiment opens a wider Weekly Blitz conversation with Julie Koehrer about the human skills agentic work will demand. Clear instructions matter. Shared context matters. Someone still has to define success, resolve conflict, and recognize when an impressive output hides a broken process.Jason and Julie also unpack AI psychosis, digital coparenting, education after AI, elder care marketing, OpenAI nonprofit funding, economic incentives, China's GLM-5.2, and Hasbro's AI characters.TIME STAMPS00:00 - Father's Day, parenting, and Red Foreman02:00 - Two meanings of AI psychosis03:16 - Codex and Claude CoWork in Slack06:16 - Why agents need communication rules08:09 - ChatGPT as a digital coparent11:24 - Automating calendars, inboxes, and social assets18:01 - Education after AI19:46 - AI marketing in elder care23:31 - OpenAI funding for nonprofits25:24 - UBI, incentives, and social impact30:05 - China and GLM-5.234:41 - Agent management and AI-powered toysCONNECT WITH JASON PADGETTjason@mycitizen.aiLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jason-grant-padgett/X: https://x.com/NoCodeCAIONewsletter: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/newsletter/AGI PODCAST NETWORKhttps://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/RESOURCEShttps://www.wired.com/story/momfluencers-are-pitching-ai-as-a-better-coparent-than-men/https://openai.com/index/people-first-ai-fund/https://z.ai/blog/glm-5.2
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| AI Literacy in K-12 and the Workforce Gap with CIESC's Lena Darnay | 20 juin 2026 | 00:59:54 | |
Lena Darnay spent years as a school librarian before she landed at the Central Indiana Educational Service Center, and that librarian's brain turns out to be exactly what the AI moment needs. In this School's Out Saturdays conversation she and Jason dig into why K-12 has to expose kids to AI early instead of blocking it, why every industry panel she has ever sat on names the same must-have skill, spreadsheets, and why the old blame game between K-12, higher ed, and employers has to end. Jason makes his case against Carmel Schools, which trained its teachers on AI for two and a half years and still keeps it out of the classroom. The two get into anthropomorphism, sycophancy, and the Character AI tragedy that should worry every parent. They also cover Indiana's new diploma seals, the SAIL leadership work at CIESC, vibe coding a conference app in Replit, and what Plato's Republic has to do with Sam Altman. Lena closes on grief, sci-fi, and radical acceptance. ABOUT THE GUEST Lena Darnay is Director of Communications at the Central Indiana Educational Service Center, or CIESC, the largest of Indiana's nine educational service centers, serving 35 member districts and about 220,000 students. A former high school librarian and instructional technology specialist, she moved into the service center world during the pandemic and now helps lead the SAIL AI leadership work through Keep Indiana Learning, CIESC's professional development arm. She holds an undergraduate degree in marketing and a master of library science from Indiana University. GUEST LINKS LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lena-g-darnay/ CIESC: https://ciesc.org/ Keep Indiana Learning: https://keepindianalearning.org/ TIME STAMPS 00:00 - The service center model most people never see 07:20 - What SAIL is and why Jason got pulled in 10:45 - Carmel Schools and the case for AI in K-12 now 16:22 - The entry-level job is about to change 20:44 - The one skill every employer names: spreadsheets 22:31 - Why philosophy and library science degrees matter again 28:06 - Socrates, Plato, and AI's philosopher kings 33:21 - Ikigai, Alpha School, and exposing kids early 46:37 - Anthropomorphism, sycophancy, and the Character AI tragedy 54:34 - Sci-fi, grief, and The Poppy Fields CONNECT WITH JASON PADGETT Director of Partnerships and Growth at CitizenAI jason@mycitizen.ai LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jason-grant-padgett/ X: https://x.com/NoCodeCAIO Newsletter (No Code CAIO): https://www.linkedin.com/build-relation/newsletter-follow?entityUrn=7399599285849346048 AGI PODCAST NETWORK School's Out Saturdays: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/ All AGI Podcast shows: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/network TOOLS JASON RECOMMENDS MindStudio: https://get.mindstudio.ai/q7n7u5cttkdq Riverside.fm: https://riverside.sjv.io/e1xyBr Wispr Flow: https://ref.wisprflow.ai/jason-padgett RESOURCES MENTIONED Central Indiana Educational Service Center: https://ciesc.org/ Keep Indiana Learning: https://keepindianalearning.org/ Alpha School, 2 Hour Learning model: https://alpha.school/ The Poppy Fields by Nikki Erlick Robopocalypse by Daniel H. Wilson Replit: https://replit.com/ Notebook LM: https://notebooklm.google.com/ Character AI: https://character.ai/ People referenced: Ryan Murray, Tanika Kennardle, and Jenna Cooper at CIESC and SAIL, Dr. Nicole Adams at Purdue, Ann Lefwich at Indiana University, Geoffrey Hinton, Amanda Askell at Anthropic, Reid Hoffman | |||
| Washington Shuts Down a Frontier AI Model, Plus the 1,000-Year Lifespan Debate | 15 juin 2026 | 00:29:57 | |
EPISODE DESCRIPTIONA frontier AI model got pulled offline by executive order this week, and Jason and Julie use it to open a bigger question. The government was ahead of nuclear and ahead of UAPs, and for the first time it is behind, trying to regulate a technology that did not start in its labs and that officials admit they do not fully understand. The two get into what happens to a business when its operating-system-level model goes dark overnight, why every company may want a fine-tuned open-source model sitting on a work laptop as a backup, and whether Dario Amodei's warnings about AI danger were conviction or pre-IPO positioning.The back half turns to the Moonshots podcast with Peter Diamandis and a claim that stops Julie cold: the first baby who will live to a thousand may already be born. They weigh cell-age reversal, GLP-1s as a possible longevity drug and the next Prozac, the FDA bottlenecks worth keeping, and the genetic-reprogramming debate that turns dystopian the second you move the line past disease. Plato's philosopher kings, lab-grown meat, Argentina recognizing AI personhood, and Elon's trillion-dollar paper valuation all get a turn.TIME STAMPS00:00 - A frontier model pulled offline by executive order03:30 - Was Dario Amodei's danger warning principle or pre-IPO positioning05:40 - Model routers and what happens when your operating-system model goes dark06:35 - AWS outages and why every business may need an open-source backup09:15 - Moonshots, longevity, and the first baby who may live a thousand years13:00 - Reversing a cell's age and whether we cure cancer this decade14:40 - GLP-1s as a longevity drug and the next Prozac17:30 - Philosopher kings, lab-grown meat, and following the money18:35 - Elon's trillion-dollar valuation and a stock market built on belief19:55 - Bernie Sanders, Sam Altman, and a 50 percent tax on the frontier labs25:00 - Genetic reprogramming, the IVF parallel, and the moving line in the sand26:00 - Argentina, AI personhood, and integrating with the machineCONNECT WITH JASON PADGETTDirector of Growth and Partnerships at CitizenAI📧 jason@mycitizen.aiLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jason-grant-padgett/X: https://x.com/NoCodeCAIONewsletter (No Code CAIO): https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/newsletter/ Available for interviews and keynotes on AI in education → jason@mycitizen.aiAGI PODCAST NETWORKSchool's Out Saturdays: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/Field Notes newsletter: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/field-notesIndiana AI education events: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/eventsAll AGI Podcast shows: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/networkTOOLS JASON RECOMMENDSMindStudio → https://get.mindstudio.ai/q7n7u5cttkdqRiverside.fm → https://riverside.sjv.io/e1xyBrWispr Flow → https://ref.wisprflow.ai/jason-padgettRESOURCES MENTIONEDMoonshots with Peter Diamandis: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/moonshots-with-peter-diamandis/id1648228034Project Glasswing (Anthropic): https://www.anthropic.com/glasswingPlato, The Republic (the philosopher kings concept)Alpha-gal syndrome, the lone star tick red meat allergy | |||
| Scouting's New AI Merit Badge with Sagamore Council's Bryon Haverstick | 13 juin 2026 | 00:51:56 | |
EPISODE DESCRIPTION Scouting America rolled out an AI merit badge in fall 2025, and Bryon Haverstick is about to put it in front of around 30 kids at the University of Scouting at Purdue on December 5. Bryon runs scouting across 14 counties in north central Indiana for the Sagamore Council, and the event has grown into the largest University of Scouting in the country, close to 3,000 people from 26 states last year. Jason teaches one of the AI sessions, Michael Witt teaches another, and a Purdue professor runs a third. The two get into what the badge covers: key terminology, where AI shows up in everyday life and work, deepfakes and how to spot them, ethics, and a project where scouts design and teach a lesson of their own. They talk about why scouting's two-deep leadership rule maps cleanly onto keeping kids safe with AI, why Bryon thinks the social media mistake was going hands-off, and how he built a council marketing plan in 30 minutes that would have cost 45 to 60 thousand dollars to hire out. Jason calls his shot too: give kids a beginner's mind and they will show the adults things these machines can do that nobody expected. ABOUT THE GUEST Bryon Haverstick, CNP, is the assistant scout executive and chief operating officer of the Sagamore Council of Scouting America, covering 14 counties across north central Indiana from the Greater Lafayette area. A St. Louis native and Lindenwood University graduate, he has led council operations since 2017 and built the council's University of Scouting at Purdue into the largest single-day youth event on campus and the largest event of its kind in the country. GUEST LINKS LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bryon-haverstick-cnp-1465188/ Sagamore Council: https://www.sagamorecouncil.org/ University of Scouting at Purdue, December 4-6, 2026: https://scoutingevent.com/162-100441 TIME STAMPS 00:00 - The Sagamore Council and University of Scouting at Purdue 02:32 - Scouting's new AI merit badge and its first year 05:02 - The eight requirements, from key terms to deepfakes to careers 06:22 - Sycophancy, anthropomorphism, and what kids need under the hood 07:51 - Catching scams with Perplexity and a $350 fake invoice 11:04 - Why quality instructors matter more than credentials 17:24 - Soft skills, collaboration, and a post-event virtual meetup 22:19 - Social media's misstep and going hands-on with AI 27:03 - Two-deep leadership applied to digital and AI safety 31:30 - Consumers versus creators and the China comparison 40:42 - A council marketing plan built in 30 minutes with ChatGPT 42:35 - Podcasting on the cheap and a beginner's mind for kids CONNECT WITH JASON PADGETT Director of Growth and Partnerships at CitizenAI 📧 jason@mycitizen.ai LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jason-grant-padgett/ X: https://x.com/NoCodeCAIO Newsletter (No Code CAIO): https://www.linkedin.com/build-relation/newsletter-follow?entityUrn=7399599285849346048 Available for interviews and keynotes on AI in education -> jason@mycitizen.ai AGI PODCAST NETWORK School's Out Saturdays: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/ Field Notes newsletter: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/field-notes Indiana AI education events: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/events All AGI Podcast shows: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/network TOOLS JASON RECOMMENDS MindStudio -> https://get.mindstudio.ai/q7n7u5cttkdq Riverside.fm -> https://riverside.sjv.io/e1xyBr Wispr Flow -> https://ref.wisprflow.ai/jason-padgett RESOURCES MENTIONED Artificial Intelligence merit badge, Scouting America: https://www.scouting.org/merit-badges/artificial-intelligence/ University of Scouting at Purdue, December 4-6, 2026: https://scoutingevent.com/162-100441 Perplexity: https://www.perplexity.ai/ NotebookLM: https://notebooklm.google.com/ ChatGPT: https://chatgpt.com/ | |||
| Agentic AI vs Chatbots, Plus SK Hynix and Indiana's Data Center Costs | 08 juin 2026 | 00:33:06 | |
EPISODE DESCRIPTION Everybody throws around "agentic AI" like it means the same thing as the chatbot they have used since 2022. It does not, and Jason walks Julie through exactly where the line sits. A chat interface answers your question. An agent goes off and does the work. Jason's own setup pulls a week of voice memos out of NotebookLM, drafts the No Code CAIO and Field Notes newsletters, pushes them to GitHub, and ships them to Cloudflare while he barely reviews a thing. Then it turns local. SK Hynix is putting a 3.87 billion dollar chip-packaging plant in West Lafayette, residents have a lawsuit going over transparency, and Indiana keeps handing billion-dollar companies decades of zero sales tax just to show up. Jason and Julie get into the part nobody says out loud: golf courses use five times the water data centers do, the California almond industry dwarfs both, and we the people keep paying the electricity bill while big tech hands out a hundred million for overseas social programs and calls it generosity. Plus Jason's read on Bernie Sanders wanting the government to take a 50 percent equity stake in OpenAI, Anthropic, and the rest, and why he thinks that one backfires. TIME STAMPS 00:00 - Chat interface vs agentic AI and why everyone confuses them 01:11 - Stochastic parrots, reasoning models, and the strawberry problem 04:30 - Why agents were too risky before the models got reliable 06:08 - From internet search to custom GPTs to true agents 07:43 - Jason's agentic newsletter workflow with NotebookLM and Cloudflare 11:42 - Inference costs, the five Claude models, and LLM routers 15:59 - Does digital marketing run on the same data centers as agents 18:30 - Golf courses, almonds, and where the media aims the spotlight 20:39 - Data center water use and the case for nuclear, solar, and wind 22:03 - SK Hynix, the transparency lawsuit, and protecting homeowners 24:54 - Public AI education, lifetime learning, and Bernie's equity plan 30:30 - AI, democracy, and whether we still need representatives CONNECT WITH JASON PADGETT Director of Growth and Partnerships at CitizenAI 📧 jason@mycitizen.ai LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jason-grant-padgett/ X: https://x.com/NoCodeCAIO Newsletter (No Code CAIO): https://www.linkedin.com/build-relation/newsletter-follow?entityUrn=7399599285849346048 Available for interviews and keynotes on AI in education -> jason@mycitizen.ai AGI PODCAST NETWORK School's Out Saturdays: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/ Field Notes newsletter: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/field-notes Indiana AI education events: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/events All AGI Podcast shows: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/network TOOLS JASON RECOMMENDS MindStudio -> https://get.mindstudio.ai/q7n7u5cttkdq Riverside.fm -> https://riverside.sjv.io/e1xyBr Wispr Flow -> https://ref.wisprflow.ai/jason-padgett RESOURCES MENTIONED SK Hynix West Lafayette advanced packaging plant: https://news.skhynix.com/sk-hynix-signs-investment-agreement-of-advanced-chip-packaging-with-indiana/ Karen Hao, Empire of AI: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/743569/empire-of-ai-by-karen-hao/ Bernie Sanders, American AI Sovereign Wealth Fund Act, June 2026: https://thehill.com/policy/technology/5906140-sanders-ai-ownership-wealth/ AI customer service chatbot liability, Air Canada tribunal ruling, February 2024 NotebookLM: https://notebooklm.google.com/ Perplexity: https://www.perplexity.ai/ | |||
| You Can't Shape What You Won't Use: Anne Leftwich on AI at Indiana University | 06 juin 2026 | 01:02:28 | |
EPISODE DESCRIPTIONAnne Leftwich runs learning technologies for all of Indiana University, and her message to AI holdouts is blunt: you can't shape what you won't use. Refuse to touch the tools and you forfeit your seat in the conversation about how they get used in your classroom and your kid's bedroom. In this episode she walks through how IU earned the AI Transformation Award at TechPoint's 2026 Mira Awards, why President Pam Whitten pushed for a GenAI 101 course that takes students, faculty, and staff from their first prompt all the way to building an AI agent, and what she learned watching her fifth graders train a chatbot and discover algorithmic bias without any adult pointing it out. We also get into the Lilly Endowment AI implementation grant, why she calls AI a Trojan horse for sneaking good pedagogy back into education, why banning tools in K-12 fails the same way abstinence-only everything fails, and her friend Brad Wheeler's math on the pace of change: what used to take a year now happens in 45 days. ABOUT THE GUESTAnne Leftwich is the Associate Vice President for Learning Technologies at Indiana University, where she reports directly to the CIO and helps lead AI strategy across every IU campus. She holds the Barbara B. Jacobs Chair in Education and Technology as a professor of Instructional Systems Technology in the IU School of Education, with over 20 years of research on K-12 technology adoption, computer science education, and AI education. Her NSF-funded PrimaryAI curriculum teaches artificial intelligence to students in grades 3 through 5 through life science. GUEST LINKSLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anne-leftwich-9b52646/Indiana University profile: https://uits.iu.edu/about/leadership/aleftwic.html TIME STAMPS00:00 - Anne's role at IU and the Mira AI Transformation Award03:42 - Why students resist AI07:35 - You can't shape what you won't use12:08 - Lilly Endowment grant and IU's four work streams14:48 - NotebookLM, Claude tutors, and rethinking the lecture20:53 - Fifth graders discover chatbot bias25:08 - Why banning AI in K-12 backfires31:28 - Sycophancy, AI Barbie, and teaching what's under the hood39:54 - Soft skills and how to measure critical thinking49:42 - Rapid fire: org charts, philosophy jobs, robotics, the singularity CONNECT WITH JASON PADGETTDirector of Growth and Partnerships at CitizenAI📧 jason@mycitizen.aiLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jason-grant-padgett/X: https://x.com/NoCodeCAIONewsletter (No Code CAIO): https://www.linkedin.com/build-relation/newsletter-follow?entityUrn=7399599285849346048Available for interviews and keynotes on AI in education → jason@mycitizen.ai AGI PODCAST NETWORKSchool's Out Saturdays: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/Field Notes newsletter: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/field-notesIndiana AI education events: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/eventsAll AGI Podcast shows: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/network TOOLS JASON RECOMMENDSMindStudio → https://get.mindstudio.ai/q7n7u5cttkdqRiverside.fm → https://riverside.sjv.io/e1xyBrWispr Flow → https://ref.wisprflow.ai/jason-padgett RESOURCES MENTIONEDGenAI 101, IU's free course now open worldwide: https://expand.iu.edu/browse/learningtech/gen-ai/courses/genai-101TechPoint 2026 Mira Awards: https://techpoint.org/2026-mira-awards-winners-indiana-techpoint/PrimaryAI, NSF-funded elementary AI curriculum: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1934153Google NotebookLM: https://notebooklm.google.com/Magic School AI: https://www.magicschool.ai/SchoolAI: https://schoolai.com/Lilly Endowment: https://lillyendowment.org/ | |||
| Pope Leo's Magnifica Humanitas, Anthropic at the Vatican, and the God Complex | 01 juin 2026 | 00:38:41 | |
EPISODE DESCRIPTIONPope Leo XIV dropped roughly 43,000 words on AI in his first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, and Anthropic's co-founder sat at the Vatican to mark the moment. Jason and Julie work through what the Pope got right, the pragmatic warnings about power concentration and worker displacement, and where the document jumps ahead of the actual conversation by debating AI rights before we've even reckoned with what social media did to kids. Along the way: Julie's mom is dealing with delirium in a nursing facility, and a beeping air mattress becomes a perfect case for ambient AI that explains itself instead of just making noise. UnitedHealth is now running AI bot calls into nursing home rooms, refusing to admit it's a bot even when asked directly. Plus the case for family safe words in the deepfake era, voice-based prompt engineering as a side hustle waiting to happen, predatory subscription traps from Hulu to Apple iCloud, and why tech founders like Musk, Altman, and Amodei might be quietly building toward a god complex. TIME STAMPS00:00 - AI in elder care and Julie's mom's delirium02:47 - Deepfake safe words for vulnerable family members06:10 - UnitedHealth's AI bot calls into nursing rooms10:43 - Voice-based prompt engineering as a business opportunity14:21 - Predatory subscription traps and AI cleanup tools we wish existed22:38 - Platform strategy: where AI buyers actually live online24:43 - Pope Leo's Magnifica Humanitas and Anthropic at the Vatican27:09 - Where the encyclical jumps ahead and where it lands32:00 - The God complex problem in Silicon Valley35:11 - Demis Hassabis, neurobiology, and where religion comes in CONNECT WITH JASON PADGETTDirector of Growth and Partnerships at CitizenAI📧 jason@mycitizen.aiLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jason-grant-padgett/X: https://x.com/NoCodeCAIONewsletter (No Code CAIO): https://www.linkedin.com/build-relation/newsletter-follow?entityUrn=7399599285849346048Available for interviews and keynotes on AI in education → jason@mycitizen.ai AGI PODCAST NETWORKSchool's Out Saturdays: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/Field Notes newsletter: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/field-notesIndiana AI education events: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/eventsAll AGI Podcast shows: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/network TOOLS JASON RECOMMENDSMindStudio → https://get.mindstudio.ai/q7n7u5cttkdqRiverside.fm → https://riverside.sjv.io/e1xyBrWispr Flow → https://ref.wisprflow.ai/jason-padgett RESOURCES MENTIONEDPope Leo XIV's encyclical Magnifica Humanitas, released May 25, 2026: https://www.vatican.vaAnthropic: https://www.anthropic.comClaude: https://claude.aiNotebookLM: https://notebooklm.google.comDemis Hassabis, co-founder of Google DeepMindUnitedHealth Group: https://www.unitedhealthgroup.com | |||
| Student-Led AI in Schools: Richmond Tech Team on MagicSchool, AI Literacy & Future Jobs | 30 mai 2026 | 00:56:56 | |
Jeremy Hill handed his Richmond High School students MagicSchool and told them to break it. They couldn't, and that two-week red-team is why teachers across the district trusted the tool enough to let students use it. Hill, MagicSchool's 2025 AI Educator of the Year, joins Jason with two of his tech team members, high school junior Sophia Hill and Wittenberg University sophomore Maren Bolser, for a conversation about what AI in school looks like when students run the show. They get into why university crowds booed AI at graduations this spring, the literacy gap forming before AI has even turned three, and the line between using AI as a thought partner and an answer vending machine. Maren talks about using MagicSchool to work around a learning disability. The group debates the Alpha School model, the bet on Ivy Tech over four-year degrees, and whether Demis Hassabis is right that we're standing in the foothills of the singularity. Hill's closing argument: give the problems to the kids and let them spread the solution. ABOUT THE GUESTS Jeremy Hill is an eLearning specialist and Tech Team facilitator at Richmond Community Schools in Indiana, and MagicSchool's 2025 AI Educator of the Year. For ten years he has run a student-led model where the Richmond High School Tech Team pilots tools, leads professional development, and trains teachers across the district. Sophia Hill is a Richmond High School student heading into her junior year and a member of the Tech Team's presentation group. Maren Bolser is a former Richmond Tech Team member now entering her sophomore year at Wittenberg University in Springfield, Ohio. GUEST LINKS Jeremy Hill: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeremy-hill-0a3a117b/ Richmond Community Schools: https://www.linkedin.com/company/richmond-community-schools/ TIME STAMPS 00:00 - Meet Jeremy Hill and the Richmond Tech Team 01:11 - Ten years in, and the MagicSchool Educator of the Year award 02:44 - How students red-teamed MagicSchool before the launch 04:30 - Why college crowds booed AI at graduation this spring 06:00 - The literacy gap forming before AI has turned three 13:59 - What is the point of K-12 when AI can answer anything 20:55 - Who gets the productivity gains, a shorter week or a bigger paycheck 24:48 - The Alpha School model and the equity question 26:40 - Thought partner vs answer machine, and AI with a learning disability 39:22 - Four-year degrees vs micro-credentials and the Ivy Tech bet 49:19 - Demis Hassabis, the singularity, and the five-year question 53:54 - Closing messages: give the problems to the kids CONNECT WITH JASON PADGETT Director of Growth and Partnerships at CitizenAI 📧 jason@mycitizen.ai LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jason-grant-padgett/ X: https://x.com/NoCodeCAIO Newsletter (No Code CAIO): https://www.linkedin.com/build-relation/newsletter-follow?entityUrn=7399599285849346048 Available for interviews and keynotes on AI in education → jason@mycitizen.ai AGI PODCAST NETWORK School's Out Saturdays: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/ Field Notes newsletter: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/field-notes Indiana AI education events: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/events All AGI Podcast shows: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/network TOOLS JASON RECOMMENDS MindStudio → https://get.mindstudio.ai/q7n7u5cttkdq Riverside.fm → https://riverside.sjv.io/e1xyBr Wispr Flow → https://ref.wisprflow.ai/jason-padgett RESOURCES MENTIONED Richmond Tech Team on the Exceptional Educators Podcast: https://exceptionaleducatorspodcast.transistor.fm/episodes/ai-visionaries-richmond-high-schools-tech-team-students-on-ai-shaping-edtech-and-responsible-tech-use MagicSchool: https://www.magicschool.ai/ SchoolAI: https://schoolai.com/ Brisk Teaching: https://www.briskteaching.com/ NotebookLM: https://notebooklm.google.com/ Alpha School: https://alpha.school/ Ivy Tech: https://www.ivytech.edu/ Ditch That Textbook (Matt Miller): https://ditchthattextbook.com/ The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt | |||
| AI Booed at Graduations, Musk Loses OpenAI Trial, Karpathy to Anthropic | 25 mai 2026 | 00:36:06 | |
EPISODE DESCRIPTIONThree commencement speakers got booed this month for mentioning AI, and the reactions say something real. Eric Schmidt got drowned out at Arizona. Gloria Caulfield couldn't finish a sentence at UCF. Scott Borchetta told Middle Tennessee State students to "deal with it" and got the response you'd expect from arts and media graduates who just watched their career field get disrupted. Jason argues the fear is partly media-manufactured rage bait, but it lands on real anxiety about jobs and what happens when none of this trickles down. The week's news moved fast. A federal jury took less than two hours to throw out Musk's entire lawsuit against OpenAI, ruling every claim was filed outside the three-year statute of limitations. The key: texts and emails from Altman and Brockman in 2018 notifying Musk that a for-profit shift was coming. Demis Hassabis closed Google IO by telling the world we're at the foothills of the singularity, which made Sundar Pichai's job very complicated. SpaceX filed its S-1 on May 20 targeting a potential $2 trillion valuation. And Andrej Karpathy, who coined "vibe coding," announced he's joining Anthropic's pre-training team. Julie also shares how she used Gemini to research her mother's delirium and sepsis in real time, arriving at appointments with sourced material from the Cleveland Clinic, Mayo Clinic, and NIH. The medical system missed her mom's kidney stones for seven months. Having that research ready changed the dynamic with medical staff entirely. That's the use case that makes all of this worth talking about. TIMESTAMPS00:01 - Memorial Day intro and the Indy 50001:42 - Three commencement speakers, three rounds of boos04:30 - Rage baiting, Gen Alpha AI sabotage stats, and Richmond High's red team09:14 - Local radio as a model for community-first AI coverage10:57 - Google IO: Demis Hassabis says we're at the foothills of the singularity13:33 - UFOs, close encounters, and a Japanese physicist on Dwarkesh15:41 - AlphaFold, longevity science, and Jason's health recalculation18:11 - Gen Z vs millennials: disruption doesn't always mean destruction20:22 - Three AI agents running in the other room21:10 - Julie uses Gemini to research her mom's delirium and sepsis25:18 - AI outdiagnosing doctors26:34 - Elon loses the OpenAI trial: statute of limitations explained27:50 - SpaceX files for potentially the largest IPO in US history27:52 - Karpathy joins Anthropic, Anthropic nears first profitable quarter29:06 - Zuckerberg's keyboard monitors and what that signals about Meta31:27 - The trickle-down question nobody in AI is answering CONNECT WITH JASON PADGETTDirector of Growth and Partnerships at CitizenAI📧 jason@mycitizen.aiLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jason-grant-padgett/X: https://x.com/NoCodeCAIONewsletter (No Code CAIO): https://www.linkedin.com/build-relation/newsletter-follow?entityUrn=7399599285849346048Available for interviews and keynotes on AI in education → jason@mycitizen.ai AGI PODCAST NETWORKSchool's Out Saturdays: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/Field Notes newsletter: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/field-notesIndiana AI education events: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/eventsAll AGI Podcast shows: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/network TOOLS JASON RECOMMENDSMindStudio → https://get.mindstudio.ai/q7n7u5cttkdqRiverside.fm → https://riverside.sjv.io/e1xyBrWispr Flow → https://ref.wisprflow.ai/jason-padgett RESOURCES MENTIONEDGoogle IO 2026: https://io.google/2026/Magic School AI: https://www.magicschool.ai/Richmond Community School Corporation: https://www.richmondk12.net/Dwarkesh Podcast: https://www.dwarkeshpatel.com/Cleveland Clinic: https://my.clevelandclinic.org/Mayo Clinic: https://www.mayoclinic.org/National Institutes of Health: https://www.nih.gov/SpaceX S-1 filing (May 20, 2026): Nasdaq ticker SPCX | |||
| AI Jobs for CS Grads in 2026: Why Startups Beat Big Tech | 23 mai 2026 | 01:16:57 | |
A Purdue computer science junior breaks down the real AI job market for new grads. Why Big Tech froze entry-level hiring, where the actual opportunities sit, and what technical skills survive when AI writes code. Key topics covered:
Bottom line: New CS grads who skip Big Tech, learn to architect AI systems, and pick up enough soft skills to work cross-functionally will run circles around peers fighting for shrinking Meta and Amazon roles. About Bohyeon Jang:Computer science junior at Purdue University, completing an entrepreneurship certificate. International student from South Korea.LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bohyeon-jang-a709ab238/ → Open to internship and post-graduation opportunities at startups and SMBs! Connect with Jason Padgett:Director of Growth and Partnerships at CitizenAI📧 jason@mycitizen.aiLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jason-grant-padgett/X: https://x.com/NoCodeCAIONewsletter (No Code CAIO): https://www.linkedin.com/build-relation/newsletter-follow?entityUrn=7399599285849346048 Available for interviews and keynotes on AI in education → jason@mycitizen.ai AGI Podcast network:School's Out Saturdays: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/Field Notes newsletter: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/field-notesIndiana AI education events: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/eventsAll shows: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/network Tools Jason recommends:MindStudio → https://get.mindstudio.ai/q7n7u5cttkdqRiverside.fm → https://riverside.sjv.io/e1xyBrWispr Flow → https://ref.wisprflow.ai/jason-padgett | |||
| AI, UAPs, and the Musk vs. Altman Trial: What's Actually at Stake in 2026 | 18 mai 2026 | 00:40:18 | |
What happens when Elon Musk texts Sam Altman's co-founder that "by the time this is over, you'll be the most hated men in America"? This week, Jason Padgett and Julie Koehrer unpack the Musk vs. Altman federal trial, Anthropic's new compute deal with xAI, and why China's chip strategy could determine who controls global AI. Jason also breaks down what GPUs, neural networks, weights, and reasoning models actually mean for anyone who has wondered how these things work. Key topics covered:
Jason and Julie do not have political science degrees or MBAs. They have a combined 15+ years of practical AI work and media experience, and they will tell you what they actually think. About Julie Koehrer:Julie Koehrer is On-Air Personality at Q106.7 Lafayette | 15+ years in radio/broadcast. Located in Lafayette, Indiana.LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/juliekoehrer/ Work with Jason -> jason@mycitizen.ai Resources mentioned:OpenAI -> https://openai.comAnthropic -> https://anthropic.comxAI -> https://x.aiNvidia -> https://nvidia.comHuawei -> https://huawei.comTSMC -> https://tsmc.comNotebookLM -> https://notebooklm.google.comJeff Townsend on the Vibe (China tech deep dive) -> https://youtu.be/8d-eySsCng8MindStudio -> https://get.mindstudio.ai/q7n7u5cttkdqRiverside.fm -> https://riverside.sjv.io/e1xyBrWispr Flow -> https://ref.wisprflow.ai/jason-padgett School's Out Saturdays: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/AGI Podcast (all shows): https://linktr.ee/AGIPodcast | |||