AGI - Advance, Grow, Innovate with AI

EPISODE DESCRIPTIONYoung 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 LEARNWhy 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 TAKEAWAYThe countries and schools that teach young people to build with AI will have more influence over what comes next.YOUR NEXT MOVEAsk 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 GUESTNishad 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 LINKSLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nishad-patel/Cummins: https://www.cummins.com/TIME STAMPS00:00 - From Abu Dhabi to Purdue computer science01:17 - Meeting through TechPoint's Xtern Community Connect02:15 - Which jobs AI will change first10:41 - Robots, elder care, and the human comfort barrier16:10 - China's robotics lead and shared machine intelligence28:00 - Quantum computing and Indiana's Hard Tech Corridor32:36 - Are students building with technology or consuming it?36:19 - What the UAE is teaching Nishad about technology policy50:09 - Data centers, public benefit, and practical negotiation01:00:27 - Engineers, lawyers, and how nations set priorities01:09:08 - Education as the foundation of American competitivenessCONNECT WITH JASON PADGETTJason PadgettAI Solutions Architect | Co-Founder, Wooden Boy Industries | Host, AGI PodcastInspiring 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 IndustriesBring your biggest challenge. We will talk about where your school is heading and how to help students get ready for what comes next.🌐 https://woodenboyindustriesai.com/SpritePractical AI capability for solopreneurs who want to learn the tools and use them well themselves.🌐 https://woodenboyindustriesai.com/sprite/The AGI Podcast NetworkAdvance, Grow, and Innovate with AI.🌐 https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/Chakra AI SolutionsChief Solutions Architect🌐 https://chakrasolutions.ai/💬 [email protected] MENTIONEDTechPoint Xtern: https://techpoint.org/xtern-students/TechPoint Community Connect, July 2026: https://techpoint.org/sold-out-community-connect-ai-talent-innovation/Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence: https://mbzuai.ac.ae/Masdar City: https://masdarcity.ae/Stargate UAE, May 2025: https://openai.com/index/introducing-stargate-uae/

EPISODE DESCRIPTIONJason 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-HOSTJulie 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 LINKSJulie Koehrer on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/juliekoehrerQ106.7: https://lafayetteq1067.com/TIME STAMPS00:00 - Julie's Joyful Journey celebrity softball game01:20 - Two polished AI dashboards that completely missed the assignment07:12 - The useful answer: remove desk work, keep Julie09:19 - Building a reusable prospect brief before the client meeting13:06 - Jason offers Julie a one-month paid ChatGPT experiment15:01 - When good enough AI work beats endless design revisions19:41 - Teaching people to build their own AI workflows22:06 - Agent employees, local models, and a Mac mini AI lab25:39 - Testing MiniMax H3 as an always-on video studio28:08 - Why AI keeps writing like an influencer30:21 - Automated solicitation and the collapse of real connection37:50 - Northwest Indiana outages and the data-center fight46:17 - An agentic human design process built around judgmentCONNECT WITH JASON PADGETT Chief Solutions Architect at Chakra AI SolutionsCo-Founder of Wooden Boy Industries📧 [email protected]: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jason-grant-padgett/X: https://x.com/NoCodeCAIONo Code CAIO newsletter: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/newsletter/Available for interviews and keynotes on AI in education → [email protected] 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 MENTIONEDJoyful Journey Adult Day Service: https://joyfuljourneywl.org/Claude Design: https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-design-anthropic-labsChatGPT Images 2.0, April 2026: https://openai.com/index/introducing-chatgpt-images-2-0/MiniMax H3 open-source video model, August 2026: https://www.minimax.io/news/minimax-h3-open-sourceEmpire of AI by Karen Hao: https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/460331/empire-of-ai-by-hao-karen/9781802064650Texas data-center interconnection audit, August 2026: https://gov.texas.gov/news/post/governor-abbott-directs-comprehensive-data-center-audit

EPISODE TITLEWhy AI Systems Fail: Employee Buy-In Before Automation with Olga ZippaEPISODE DESCRIPTIONIf 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 GUESTOlga 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 LINKSLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/olgazippa/NextDay Executive: https://nextdayexecutive.com/IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm7381908/TIME STAMPS00:00 - From Snowpiercer to business systems03:36 - How temp jobs exposed the difference systems make06:32 - Capturing tacit knowledge from the people doing the work08:10 - Curiosity, resistance, and the beginner's mind12:50 - Choosing human connection when more work could be automated17:21 - Voice capture as a better source for authentic content21:02 - Turning meeting transcripts into useful next actions23:43 - Why AI can create work a small business could never afford before30:21 - Working the same hours and producing a month's worth of output39:21 - Moving young people from technology consumption to creation45:39 - Olga's role on Snowpiercer and why she left actingCONNECT WITH JASON PADGETTLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jason-grant-padgett/X: https://x.com/NoCodeCAIOAGI Podcast: https://agipodcast.ai/AGI PODCAST NETWORKAI & The Humans in the Loop: People who learned AI by doing, then applied it to real work.All shows and episodes: https://agipodcast.ai/RESOURCES MENTIONEDNextDay Executive: https://nextdayexecutive.com/ClickUp: https://clickup.com/Claude: https://claude.ai/ChatGPT: https://chatgpt.com/Perplexity: https://www.perplexity.ai/Monday.com: https://monday.com/Trello: https://trello.com/Breakneck by Dan Wang: https://danwang.co/breakneck/Snowpiercer: https://www.amc.com/shows/snowpiercer--1062399

EPISODE DESCRIPTIONCompanies 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 GUESTShabbir 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 LINKSLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shabbir-qutbuddin/Ivy Tech Community College: https://www.ivytech.edu/2026 Ivy Tech IT Challenge: https://www.ivytech.edu/programs/signature-opportunities-for-students/2026-ivy-tech-it-challenge/TIME STAMPS00:00 - From India to Purdue and Ivy Tech04:05 - Why students booed an AI commencement speech09:41 - The shrinking entry-level job market13:27 - Building AI pathways across Indiana17:56 - Why small businesses need young technical talent24:48 - Putting AI into the DNA of K-12 curriculum27:12 - Using AI to learn instead of copy35:49 - Sycophancy, trust, and human relationships43:26 - RAG works only when the data work gets done52:38 - Prompt engineering, curiosity, and experimentation58:52 - The 2026 Ivy Tech IT ChallengeCONNECT WITH JASON PADGETTDirector of Growth and Partnerships at CitizenAI📧 [email protected]: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jason-grant-padgett/X: https://x.com/NoCodeCAIONo Code CAIO newsletter: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/newsletter/Available for interviews and keynotes on AI in education → [email protected] 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 MENTIONEDStanford 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/Stanford research on sycophantic AI, March 2026: https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2026/03/ai-advice-sycophantic-models-researchIvy Tech AI Incubator Network: https://www.ivytech.edu/about-ivy-tech/newsroom/news/all-locations/2022/ivy-tech-community-college-joins-ai-incubator-network-to-meet-future-workforce-demand/TechPoint: https://techpoint.org/

Voice, Community, Connection: Meet Weekly Blitz Co-Host Julie KoehrerJulie 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 KOEHRERJulie 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 KOEHRERLinkedIn: 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/TIMESTAMPS00:00 - Does It Matter If AI Helped Create It?02:59 - Small Business Marketing Online And In Person07:55 - Why Professional Ad Targeting Matters11:14 - Meet Weekly Blitz Co-Host Julie Koehrer15:14 - Using Your Voice To Build Community23:15 - The Best Part Of Local Radio25:35 - What Julie Would Hand Off To AI34:11 - Why Soft Skills Need Clear Outcomes37:30 - The Hardest Question In Marketing39:18 - Why Free Local Radio Still MattersCONNECT 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/📧 [email protected] MENTIONEDAM Radio for Every Vehicle Act: https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/315National Association of Broadcasters AM Radio Advocacy: https://www.nab.org/advocacy/issue.asp?id=6719HubSpot: https://www.hubspot.com/Salesforce: https://www.salesforce.com/

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 PAINTERHarrison 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 LINKSHarrison Painter: https://harrisonpainter.com/LaunchReady.ai: https://launchready.ai/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/harrisonpainter/The 7 Levels of AI Proficiency and Harrison's books: https://launchready.ai/harrisonAI Launch Pad: https://launchready.ai/launchpadTIME STAMPS00:00 Meet Harrison Painter and LaunchReady.ai01:21 The eight-month shift from vibe coding to agents04:05 Learning permissions, guardrails, and safer experimentation07:32 Moving from chat apps toward VS Code and the terminal10:29 How Jason and Harrison teach themselves new systems13:37 The rise of the LLM whisperer and AI orchestrator15:35 How new graduates can get paid while learning AI18:16 Where business knowledge beats technical depth19:36 Why waiting to learn is becoming the bigger risk22:30 AI literacy for children and the return of “why?”26:33 Reimagining history class through questions and simulation30:56 AI as a tutor that meets people where they are32:48 Translating leaders for the people doing the work34:22 Using AI to prepare for meetings and improve communication37:12 Helping students practice debate, teamwork, and respect38:31 AI can amplify strengths and fill skill gaps41:13 Train the person and fix the workflow42:27 Building welcoming AI communities across Indiana47:29 Why current training and trusted peers matterCONNECT WITH JASON PADGETTDirector of Growth and Partnerships at CitizenAI📧 [email protected]: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jason-grant-padgett/X: https://x.com/NoCodeCAIONo Code CAIO newsletter: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/newsletter/Available for interviews and keynotes on AI in education → [email protected] 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 MENTIONEDLaunchReady AI & Coffee: https://launchready.ai/AI Launch Pad and the Thursday Brain Trust: https://launchready.ai/launchpadHermes Agent: https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agentAI Law Tracker: https://ailawtracker.org/

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: [email protected] 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/

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 AWAYHow 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.TAKEAWAYAI will change the world. Joining the conversation is how we increase the odds that it changes it for the better.GUESTNirav Nimish ShahCo-Founder, Quantal AIAI engineer, AI consultant, and automation architectM.S. in Computer Science, Columbia UniversityFormer quant-trading technology professional at UBSLinkedInhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/theniravshah/Quantal AIhttps://www.linkedin.com/company/quantal-ai/RESOURCES MENTIONEDAI4 ConferenceQuantal AIChatGPTClaudeGeminiOpen-source AI modelsCONNECT 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/📧 [email protected] MENTIONEDChatGPTClaudeGemini

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/📧 [email protected] 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/

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/📧 [email protected] FOR INTERVIEWS AND KEYNOTES ON AI IN [email protected] 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

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/📧 [email protected] 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

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 TOOLKITClaude + Claude Code in VS Code for spec documents, phase plans, and the buildA second Claude instance running as a standing advisorWebSocket + Python bridge connecting EEG hardware to the gameClaude Design for planning, then translating specs to coding agentsCodex, Cowork, and ChatGPT voice mode for background workGUEST LINKSBill Mrklas on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/william-mrklas-l-m-t-2817134/BrainMaster Technologies: https://brainmaster.com/TIME STAMPS00:00 - A new show and a first guest04:20 - The Vegas seminar that changed Bill's career08:00 - The Bell Labs founder who asked "who coded it for you?"10:16 - Jason's November turning point with Claude Code15:55 - The undiscovered talent pool of AI orchestrators19:18 - Using Claude Design as a liaison between agents22:10 - Demo: a neurofeedback game built from scratch28:41 - Electrochromic glasses and autism therapy33:20 - Ohio, MAICON, and the data center fight40:53 - The AI leaders nobody knows47:54 - Bill's son at Florida Tech, where AI use is expected51:40 - AI turns reporters into editors59:35 - Brand becomes a vibe, not a hex code1:08:00 - The hallway pictures that became a 3D room app1:13:50 - The Wooden Boy origin storyCONNECT WITH JASON PADGETTJason PadgettAI 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/📧 [email protected] PODCAST NETWORKSchool's Out Saturdays: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/No-Code CAIO Newsletter: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/newsletter/RESOURCES MENTIONEDMoonshots with Peter Diamandis, featuring Alex Wissner-GrossEmpire of AI by Karen Hao (2025)Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind by Shunryu SuzukiMAICON, the Marketing AI Conference, Cleveland

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/📧 [email protected] 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

EPISODE DESCRIPTIONOpenAI 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 STAMPS00:00 - Energy efficient AI companies and Julie's marketing class02:27 - Moonshots, Elon timelines, and UAP transparency09:11 - The three fingers test for AI video10:14 - The paperclip maximizer moment and the Road Warrior glasses13:48 - GPT-5.6 Sol breaks its sandbox and hits Hugging Face15:32 - Deception, accountability, and the case the Doomers make17:32 - China's open weight play and Kimi K323:53 - What computer science students actually need to learn now28:55 - Mira Murati, Thinking Machines, and on-prem fine-tuning35:12 - Empathy mapping and where embodied AI goes nextCONNECT WITH JASON PADGETTFounder, Wooden Boy Industries📧 [email protected]: 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 → [email protected] 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 MENTIONEDOpenAI sandbox breakout disclosure, July 21, 2026. Models tested: GPT-5.6 Sol and an unreleased successor. Benchmark: ExploitGymHugging Face: https://huggingface.coThe paperclip maximizer thought experiment, Nick Bostrom, 2003Kimi K3, Moonshot AI. 2.8 trillion parameters, open weights, released July 16, 2026Thinking Machines Lab, founded by Mira Murati, former OpenAI chief technology officerCursor, the AI coding environment, acquired by SpaceX in a deal announced June 16, 2026Moonshots podcast with Peter DiamandisTechPoint, Indiana's technology growth initiativeOpenAI CodexMad Max 2: The Road Warrior, 1981

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📧 [email protected]: 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 → [email protected] 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/networkTOOLS JASON RECOMMENDSMindStudio → https://get.mindstudio.ai/q7n7u5cttkdqRiverside.fm → https://riverside.sjv.io/e1xyBrWispr Flow → https://ref.wisprflow.ai/jason-padgettRESOURCES 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

EPISODE DESCRIPTIONSchools 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 GUESTLewis 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 LINKSLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lewispoche/Notre Dame ACE profile: https://ace.nd.edu/people/lewis-pocheStep Up EdTech: https://www.lewispoche.com/TIME STAMPS00:00 - Lewis Poché and the K-12 AI question06:01 - Teacher time, better feedback, and richer assessment08:40 - Product versus process in student learning12:06 - Teaching students to become creators and explorers18:07 - Magnifica Humanitas, Nehemiah, and the educator’s role24:00 - Why banning AI for younger students repeats the social media mistake30:42 - Sycophancy, anthropomorphism, and young learners40:26 - The technical, dispositional, and practical sides of AI literacy48:43 - What schools can offer that the digital world cannot52:15 - Teachers using AI while students are told they cannot59:10 - Guardrails, caution, and testing the limits of school AI toolsCONNECT WITH JASON PADGETTAI Solutions Architect📧 [email protected]: 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 → https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/eventsAGI 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 MENTIONEDHigher-Powered Learning: https://ace.nd.edu/programs/hplAI in Catholic Education: https://ace.nd.edu/programs/higher-powered-learning/ai-catholic-educationMagnifica Humanitas: https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/encyclicals/documents/20260515-magnifica-humanitas.htmlCommon 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-companionsMagicSchool: https://www.magicschool.ai/SchoolAI: https://schoolai.com

ABOUT THIS EPISODEThis 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-HOSTJulie 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 LINKSLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/juliekoehrerQ106.7: https://lafayetteq1067.com/TIME STAMPS00:00 - Meta camera-roll claims, AI glasses, and privacy08:41 - Seven agents and 80 to 100 hours of work in 90 minutes12:05 - Codex, Claude CoWork, Claude Code, and choosing the right seat14:24 - Fable 5, Mythos 5, export controls, and vendor dependence16:56 - GPT-5.6 and the new price-and-capability race18:32 - GLM-5.2, local models, model routing, and business continuity20:26 - Grok 4.5, Cursor data, and Jason’s model-selection hierarchy23:02 - The first automation question for a non-technical user25:15 - NotebookLM, voice guides, and learning from every human edit31:00 - AI in classrooms: answer machines, curiosity, and the students who still do the workCONNECT WITH JASON PADGETTDirector of Growth and Partnerships at CitizenAI📧 [email protected]: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jason-grant-padgett/X: https://x.com/NoCodeCAIONo Code CAIO newsletter: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/newsletter/Available for interviews and keynotes on AI in education: [email protected] 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 MENTIONEDOpenAI 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-5Z.ai GLM-5.2, June 16, 2026: https://z.ai/blog/glm-5.2SpaceXAI Grok 4.5, July 8, 2026: https://x.ai/news/grok-4-5Cursor and Grok 4.5 joint training, July 8, 2026: https://cursor.com/blog/grok-4-5Meta 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/

EPISODE DESCRIPTIONIndiana's AI future will be decided by the people willing to build, teach, fund, hire, and keep learning now. Jason talks with Chris Hutchinson, Director of Engagement at TechPoint, about how TechPoint and CICP connect Indiana's tech economy through the Indiana AI Innovation Network, CIO and CDO peer groups, founder support, Xtern, Xtern Challenge, and the Mira Awards. The conversation moves from hockey and Hoosier hospitality into the hard questions: whether Indiana can support both big-company attraction and small startups, how higher ed is leaning into AI, why K-12 cannot stay risk-averse forever, and what the average worker may feel by 2027. Chris makes the case for collaboration as Indiana's edge. Jason pushes the education and workforce angle harder: students need to create with AI, not simply consume with it.ABOUT THE GUESTChris Hutchinson is Director of Engagement at TechPoint, the CICP initiative focused on Indiana's technology community and digital innovation economy. He works across engagement, community, business development, member relationships, and TechPoint's peer networks. Before TechPoint, Chris worked in Indiana's startup community as a founder, operator, and growth leader, including time with Fastek, 1150 Academy, and The Engineered Innovation Group.GUEST LINKSChris Hutchinson on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrishutchinson33/TechPoint: https://techpoint.org/CICP: https://www.cicpindiana.com/TIME STAMPS00:00 - Chris Hutchinson, TechPoint, and CICP01:08 - Hockey, sports psychology, and Indiana startups03:30 - CICP's five initiatives and TechPoint's role08:14 - TechPoint's innovation, talent, and community pillars10:34 - Eric Christopher, CIO leaders, and the CDO Network14:33 - No-sales peer networks and the Indiana AI Innovation Network18:37 - Founders Network and support for Indiana startups21:10 - Mira Awards and Indiana's biggest night in tech24:54 - Xtern, Xtern Challenge, and AI talent pipelines31:53 - Hard-tech corridor, VC access, and startup reality35:02 - Higher ed, K-12 AI literacy, and workforce readiness47:08 - AI creation skills, human work, and the 2027 questionCONNECT WITH JASON PADGETTDirector of Growth and Partnerships at CitizenAI📧 [email protected]: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jason-grant-padgett/X: https://x.com/NoCodeCAIONo Code CAIO newsletter: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/newsletter/Available for interviews and keynotes on AI in education → [email protected] 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 MENTIONEDTechPoint: https://techpoint.org/CICP: https://www.cicpindiana.com/Indiana AI Innovation Network: https://techpoint.org/ai-innovation-network/Indiana CIO Network: https://techpoint.org/indiana-cio-network/Indiana CDO Network: https://techpoint.org/indiana-cdo-network/Indiana Founders Network: https://techpoint.org/indiana-founders-network/Xtern: https://techpoint.org/xtern/Xtern Challenge: https://techpoint.org/xtern/xtern-challenge/Mira Awards, 2026: https://techpoint.org/mira-awards/CIESC: https://ciesc.org/Keep Indiana Learning: https://keepindianalearning.org/Moe Kaden, CitizenAI: https://www.linkedin.com/in/moexkadenCitizenAI: https://www.mycitizen.ai/

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📧 [email protected]: 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 → [email protected] 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/

EPISODE DESCRIPTIONOpenAI 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 GUESTOliver 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 LINKSOliver Belanger on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/oliverbelanger/CitizenAI: https://mycitizen.aiCitizenAI on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/mycitizenai TIME STAMPS00:00 - Julie is out, CitizenAI's COO steps in00:56 - OpenAI's 50 million dollar People-First AI Fund02:28 - How OpenAI went from nonprofit to public benefit05:30 - Why the AI labs flipped from fear to public good08:31 - The three grant categories and who qualifies10:07 - Why unrestricted funds and light reporting matter13:43 - No ChatGPT required, plus Codex vs Claude17:15 - Open-weight economics: GLM at 30 cents per million tokens22:22 - The AI skills that actually hold value46:34 - Anthropic's 150 million dollar Claude Corps47:56 - Talent wars across the frontier labs55:21 - Last words: how CitizenAI helps you win the cash CONNECT WITH JASON PADGETTDirector of Growth and Partnerships at CitizenAI📧 [email protected]: 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 → [email protected] 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 MENTIONED GRANTS AND PROGRAMSOpenAI People-First AI Fund: https://openaifoundation.org/news/2026-people-first-ai-fundOpenAI Foundation: https://openaifoundation.org/Anthropic Claude Corps: https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-corpsCitizenAI on TechPoint: https://techpoint.org/ai-resources/citizenai/ AI TOOLS AND MODELSChatGPT: 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/ 

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 GUESTMorgan 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 LINKSLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/morgan-mason-9719b9235/Keep Indiana Learning: https://keepindianalearning.org/CIESC: https://ciesc.org/TIME STAMPS00:00 - Morgan Mason and Keep Indiana Learning02:47 - Activity-based learning, Alpha School, and the Path School04:59 - AI for young children and why early educators are cautious08:28 - Social media, guardrails, and the mistake of waiting too long12:00 - Sycophancy, anthropomorphism, and AI relationships15:07 - Language development and AI as a possible support18:28 - The Schoolhouse Rock version of how LLMs work21:00 - MagicSchool AI, teacher training, and district adoption30:19 - Morgan's tool stack: ChatGPT, NotebookLM, Gemini, and Canva37:00 - Indiana's AI education momentum40:31 - Student-centered coaching as an adoption model47:11 - Letting kids show adults what AI can make possibleCONNECT WITH JASON PADGETTDirector of Growth and Partnerships at CitizenAI📧 [email protected]: 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 → [email protected] 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 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/

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 [email protected]: 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

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 GUESTLena 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 LINKSLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lena-g-darnay/CIESC: https://ciesc.org/Keep Indiana Learning: https://keepindianalearning.org/TIME STAMPS00:00 - The service center model most people never see07:20 - What SAIL is and why Jason got pulled in10:45 - Carmel Schools and the case for AI in K-12 now16:22 - The entry-level job is about to change20:44 - The one skill every employer names: spreadsheets22:31 - Why philosophy and library science degrees matter again28:06 - Socrates, Plato, and AI's philosopher kings33:21 - Ikigai, Alpha School, and exposing kids early46:37 - Anthropomorphism, sycophancy, and the Character AI tragedy54:34 - Sci-fi, grief, and The Poppy FieldsCONNECT WITH JASON PADGETTDirector of Partnerships and Growth at [email protected]: 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=7399599285849346048AGI PODCAST NETWORKSchool's Out Saturdays: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/All 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 MENTIONEDCentral 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 ErlickRobopocalypse by Daniel H. WilsonReplit: 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

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📧 [email protected]: 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 → [email protected] 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

EPISODE DESCRIPTIONScouting 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 GUESTBryon 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 LINKSLinkedIn: 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/162-100441TIME STAMPS00:00 - The Sagamore Council and University of Scouting at Purdue02:32 - Scouting's new AI merit badge and its first year05:02 - The eight requirements, from key terms to deepfakes to careers06:22 - Sycophancy, anthropomorphism, and what kids need under the hood07:51 - Catching scams with Perplexity and a $350 fake invoice11:04 - Why quality instructors matter more than credentials17:24 - Soft skills, collaboration, and a post-event virtual meetup22:19 - Social media's misstep and going hands-on with AI27:03 - Two-deep leadership applied to digital and AI safety31:30 - Consumers versus creators and the China comparison40:42 - A council marketing plan built in 30 minutes with ChatGPT42:35 - Podcasting on the cheap and a beginner's mind for kidsCONNECT WITH JASON PADGETTDirector of Growth and Partnerships at CitizenAI📧 [email protected]: 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 -> [email protected] 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 MENTIONEDArtificial 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/162-100441Perplexity: https://www.perplexity.ai/NotebookLM: https://notebooklm.google.com/ChatGPT: https://chatgpt.com/

EPISODE DESCRIPTIONEverybody 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 STAMPS00:00 - Chat interface vs agentic AI and why everyone confuses them01:11 - Stochastic parrots, reasoning models, and the strawberry problem04:30 - Why agents were too risky before the models got reliable06:08 - From internet search to custom GPTs to true agents07:43 - Jason's agentic newsletter workflow with NotebookLM and Cloudflare11:42 - Inference costs, the five Claude models, and LLM routers15:59 - Does digital marketing run on the same data centers as agents18:30 - Golf courses, almonds, and where the media aims the spotlight20:39 - Data center water use and the case for nuclear, solar, and wind22:03 - SK Hynix, the transparency lawsuit, and protecting homeowners24:54 - Public AI education, lifetime learning, and Bernie's equity plan30:30 - AI, democracy, and whether we still need representativesCONNECT WITH JASON PADGETTDirector of Growth and Partnerships at CitizenAI📧 [email protected]: 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 -> [email protected] 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 MENTIONEDSK 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 2024NotebookLM: https://notebooklm.google.com/Perplexity: https://www.perplexity.ai/

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.htmlTIME 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 singularityCONNECT WITH JASON PADGETTDirector of Growth and Partnerships at CitizenAI📧 [email protected]: 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 → [email protected] 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 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/

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 inCONNECT WITH JASON PADGETTDirector of Growth and Partnerships at CitizenAI📧 [email protected]: 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 → [email protected] 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 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

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 GUESTSJeremy 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 LINKSJeremy Hill: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeremy-hill-0a3a117b/Richmond Community Schools: https://www.linkedin.com/company/richmond-community-schools/TIME STAMPS00:00 - Meet Jeremy Hill and the Richmond Tech Team01:11 - Ten years in, and the MagicSchool Educator of the Year award02:44 - How students red-teamed MagicSchool before the launch04:30 - Why college crowds booed AI at graduation this spring06:00 - The literacy gap forming before AI has turned three13:59 - What is the point of K-12 when AI can answer anything20:55 - Who gets the productivity gains, a shorter week or a bigger paycheck24:48 - The Alpha School model and the equity question26:40 - Thought partner vs answer machine, and AI with a learning disability39:22 - Four-year degrees vs micro-credentials and the Ivy Tech bet49:19 - Demis Hassabis, the singularity, and the five-year question53:54 - Closing messages: give the problems to the kidsCONNECT WITH JASON PADGETTDirector of Growth and Partnerships at CitizenAI📧 [email protected]: 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 → [email protected] 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 MENTIONEDRichmond 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-useMagicSchool: 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

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 answeringCONNECT WITH JASON PADGETTDirector of Growth and Partnerships at CitizenAI📧 [email protected]: 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 → [email protected] 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 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

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:Why Meta, Amazon, and Big Tech aren't hiring entry-level CS gradsWhere startups and SMBs are paying premium for AI-fluent gradsThe "individual contributor" hiring trendHarness engineering and why AI agents need guardrailsData hygiene, evals, and model cost optimizationBuilding personal AI coaches from public data (Naval Ravikant case study)Managing Claude Code context windows with PrimerMDWhy Anthropic's enterprise focus reduces AI sycophancyAmerican consumer mentality vs Chinese creator cultureThe Korean "filling trash bin" problem with AI as therapistRed teaming as a college majorWhy "taste and judgment" beat AI replicationBottom 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📧 [email protected]: 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 → [email protected] 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/networkTools Jason recommends:MindStudio → https://get.mindstudio.ai/q7n7u5cttkdqRiverside.fm → https://riverside.sjv.io/e1xyBrWispr Flow → https://ref.wisprflow.ai/jason-padgett

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:Musk vs. Altman trial: what Elon actually wants from this lawsuitAnthropic and xAI: why Elon gave Claude access to a Colossus data center in MemphisHow LLMs work: GPUs, nanometers, fine-tuning, and reasoning explained without the jargonChina's chip war: Huawei, TSMC, and what happens if US export controls backfireUAP declassification: where the evidence actually points in 2026Data centers and Indiana's energy contradiction: solar panels blocked, data centers approvedWorkforce displacement: AI cuts 70 jobs, saves the company money. Who gets the raise?Julie's healthcare AI nightmare and how to hack your way to a humanJason 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 -> [email protected] 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-padgettSchool's Out Saturdays: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/AGI Podcast (all shows): https://linktr.ee/AGIPodcast

China graduates 2 million engineers a year. The U.S. graduates 150,000. Jeff Towson has spent 17 years on the ground in China studying what that gap actually produces.In this 90-minute conversation on The Vibe, Jeff breaks down how Huawei rebuilt its supply chain after the 2019 U.S. entity list ban, how open-weight models like DeepSeek V4 and Alibaba's Qwen are pulling Silicon Valley costs down by 90 percent, and why he thinks the U.S. strategy of cutting China off from AI chips is "kind of evil" given that AI is a general-purpose technology like electricity.We also cover:The CloudMatrix and Ascend chip rollout that creates a fully independent Chinese AI stackWhy Unitree went from a basic humanoid to kung-fu-capable robots in 12 months, and how Galbot fits into the pictureElon's vertical integration play across Tesla, xAI, Colossus, and Optimus, and why it doesn't look like a typical investor strategyThe Brockman-Altman lawsuit and what it reveals about who we actually trust to govern informationHard America vs. soft America, and where universal basic income lands in that splitWhy drug discovery may be where the U.S. has its own China-scale advantageInfo-nationalism, the Manus deal, and why AI is political ground that video generation isn'tJeff is the founder of TechMoat Consulting, host of The Tech Strategy Podcast, and author of the Moats and Marathons book series. He was formerly Head of Direct Investments for Middle East North Africa and Asia Pacific for Prince Alwaleed. He has 2.9M+ LinkedIn followers and was the #1 LinkedIn Top Voice for Finance globally in 2017.Jeff's work:The Tech Strategy Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-tech-strategy-podcast/id1482008042Website: https://jefftowson.comLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffrey-towson-%E9%99%B6%E8%BF%85-b77906/Connect with Jason Padgett:Email: [email protected]: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jason-grant-padgett/X: https://x.com/NoCodeCAIODirector of Growth and Partnerships, CitizenAIAGI Podcast Network:Schools Out Saturdays: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/Field Notes newsletter: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/field-notes-issue-1All shows: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/networkTools Jason recommends:MindStudio → https://get.mindstudio.ai/q7n7u5cttkdqRiverside.fm → https://riverside.sjv.io/e1xyBrWispr Flow → https://ref.wisprflow.ai/jason-padgett

Most AI in education conversations skip elementary school. This AI podcast episode starts there. Zionsville Community Schools Digital Learning Coach Stevie Frank walks through what K-8 AI literacy actually looks like in a district that never blocked ChatGPT.Stevie supports three K-8 buildings and teaches kindergartners that "AI is a robot, not a her." Jason and Stevie met days earlier at the Keep Indiana Learning AI Symposium and picked the conversation up here. They cover age-appropriate AI conversations from kindergarten through eighth grade, the Snapchat AI moment every parent should stress-test with their kid, and the Adobe Ambassador program Stevie runs that's pulling young girls into digital creation.Key topics covered:AI in elementary schools and K-8 AI literacy strategyWhy Zionsville Community Schools never blocked ChatGPTMagic School platform with teacher guardrails for elementary studentsWorld Economic Forum 2025 Future of Jobs Report and social presence as a hiring signalDigital portfolios replacing AI-generated resumes in an AI-screened worldAdobe Express Ambassadors and getting young girls into EdTechWomen's representation at AI and EdTech decision-making tablesNews Literacy Project and teaching critical thinking before AIIf you teach K-8, lead a district, or are a parent trying to navigate AI conversations at home, this episode gives you specific, grade-appropriate places to start.About Stevie Frank: Technology Integration Specialist at Zionsville Community Schools, ISTE 2026 Featured Voice, Microsoft Innovative Educator Fellow, Adobe Express Creative Innovator. Educational consultant and keynote speaker based in Zionsville, Indiana.LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stevie-frank-433403234/Zionsville Community Schools: https://www.zcs.k12.in.us/Resources mentioned:Magic School → https://www.magicschool.ai/Adobe Express → https://www.adobe.com/express/Keep Indiana Learning → https://keepindianalearning.org/WEF 2025 Future of Jobs Report → https://www.weforum.org/publications/the-future-of-jobs-report-2025/News Literacy Project → https://newslit.org/The Last Invention podcast → https://www.thelastinvention.show/Work with Jason → [email protected]: 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 → [email protected]'s Out Saturdays → https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/We're listing AI in education events around Indiana on the site.AGI Podcast shows:School's Out Saturdays: AI in education, K-12 through universityWeekly Blitz: AI news every Monday, 30-45 minutesThe Vibe: Deep conversations, no time limitAll platforms: https://linktr.ee/AGIPodcastFollow: Facebook + LinkedIn @AGIPodcast | Instagram @AGISchoolsout | X @NoCodeCAIOTools Jason recommends:MindStudio → https://get.mindstudio.ai/q7n7u5cttkdqRiverside.fm → https://riverside.sjv.io/e1xyBrWispr Flow → https://ref.wisprflow.ai/jason-padgett

275 million records stolen, 9,000 institutions hit during finals week. Ashton Schultz joins Jason on the Weekly Blitz to unpack the Canvas data breach, Anthropic's surprise compute deal with Elon's Colossus data center, and why Microsoft Copilot is the most pragmatic AI tool for locked-down enterprise environments. Ashton, a 19-year tech distribution veteran and founder of Spicy Brain Speaks, also breaks down how AI note-takers like Plaud are removing administrative friction for ADHD professionals in sales.Key topics covered:The Canvas / Instructure data breach: 275M records, 9,000 institutions, finals week timingWhy Purdue avoided the breach and what Carmel schools still aren't teaching about AIThe Anthropic-xAI Colossus compute deal and Anthropic's 80x revenue growthWhy Microsoft Copilot grounded in M365 data outperforms its public reputationBrowser-use AI agents and where Facebook's guardrails kill the use casePlaud AI note-takers, transparency in meeting recording, and trust collapse riskIf you don't know how to code, AI helps you. If you do, it's a multiplier. The same applies to AI in your workflow: stop overthinking the use case and start with what you hate doing most.About Ashton Schultz:Strategic Account Manager and founder of Spicy Brain Speaks, focused on the "human-AI handshake" and AI-powered neuroinclusive solutions for the workplace. 18+ years leading enterprise tech rollouts and Microsoft AI ecosystem deployments. Based in Indianapolis. Member of the Indiana AI Innovators Network.LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashtonschultz/Spicy Brain Speaks: https://spicybrainspeaks.com/Connect with Jason Padgett:Director of Growth and Partnerships, CitizenAI📧 [email protected]: 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=7399599285849346048The AGI PodcastSchool's Out Saturdays: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/School's Out Field Notes (weekly newsletter for K-12 educators) → https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/field-notes-issue-1Available for interviews and keynotes on AI in education → We're tracking AI in education events around Indiana on the site. Post an event or book Jason as a speaker → https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/eventsAGI Podcast network (all shows): https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/networkSchool's Out Saturdays: AI in education, K-12 through universityThe Weekly Blitz: AI news every Monday, 30-45 minutes (co-hosted with Julie Koehrer)The Vibe: Long-form deep conversations, no time limitTools Jason recommends:MindStudio → https://get.mindstudio.ai/q7n7u5cttkdqRiverside.fm → https://riverside.sjv.io/e1xyBrWispr Flow → https://ref.wisprflow.ai/jason-padgettResources mentioned:Canvas / Instructure → https://www.instructure.comMicrosoft Copilot → https://copilot.microsoft.comAnthropic → https://www.anthropic.comPlaud AI Note Taker → https://www.plaud.aiNotebookLM → https://notebooklm.google.comTechPoint Indiana → https://techpoint.orgSpicy Brain Speaks → https://spicybrainspeaks.com

A Purdue computer science junior stood outside Chicago Union Station with a sign that said "Can AI do this?" The response surprised him, and the conversation that followed surprised Jason. Ethan Dawes joins School's Out Saturdays to talk about why mass-applying for jobs is broken, where CS students should actually look for opportunity in 2026, and what AI in education needs to look like for it to actually work.Key topics covered:How a Purdue CS student went viral by holding a sign in ChicagoWhy entry-level CS jobs at big tech companies are frozen and where the real opportunity isThe case for small and medium businesses hiring CS grads to navigate AI implementationGitHub vs. portfolio websites for non-technical hiring managersAI scaffolding in education and the zone of proximal developmentOral exams as a verification tool when AI can write any essayAnthropomorphism and sycophancy in LLMs (and what kids need to learn early)Emergent behaviors in large language models and the Claude blackmail experimentIf you don't know how to code, AI helps you. If you do know how to code, AI is a multiplier. That's the line that should be on every CS career services flyer in 2026.About Ethan Dawes:Computer Science junior at Purdue University, Residence Hall Association leader, Purdue Hackers member.→ Looking for a summer internship!!!LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ethan-dawes/GitHub: https://github.com/EthanDawesOriginal Chicago post: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ethan-dawes_yesterday-i-went-to-chicago-to-prove-that-share-7452910184731029504-t5_LConnect with Jason Padgett:Director of Growth and Partnerships, CitizenAI📧 [email protected]: 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=7399599285849346048The AGI PodcastSchool's Out Saturdays: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/School's Out Field Notes (weekly newsletter for K-12 educators) → https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/field-notes-issue-1Available for interviews and keynotes on AI in education → [email protected]'re tracking AI in education events around Indiana on the site. Post an event or book Jason as a speaker → https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/eventsAGI Podcast network (all shows): https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/networkSchool's Out Saturdays: AI in education, K-12 through universityThe Weekly Blitz: AI news every Monday, 30-45 minutes (co-hosted with Julie Koehrer)The Vibe: Long-form deep conversations, no time limitTools Jason recommends:MindStudio → https://get.mindstudio.ai/q7n7u5cttkdqRiverside.fm → https://riverside.sjv.io/e1xyBrWispr Flow → https://ref.wisprflow.ai/jason-padgettResources mentioned:Purdue Hackers → https://www.purduehackers.comGreater Lafayette Commerce Rise & Shine → https://www.greaterlafayettecommerce.comMatchbox Coworking Studio → https://www.matchboxlafayette.comClaude → https://www.claude.comReplit → https://replit.comLovable → https://lovable.devCursor → https://cursor.com

What's the difference between ChatGPT and Magic School AI inside a K-12 classroom? Tanika Kinartail, Professional Learning Specialist at the Central Indiana Educational Service Center (CIESC), joins host Jason Padgett to answer that question and a dozen others educators are asking in 2026.Key topics covered:- Magic School AI vs ChatGPT: how vertical AI handles a frustrated student differently- Teacher buy-in vs. teacher efficacy, and why one is compliance and the other is capacity- The iceberg problem: why AI output is the tip and student process is everything underneath- The work-based learning gap: schools and industry passing the AI responsibility back and forth- Why Tanika tells her 9th-grade daughter to follow skills, not passion- CIESC's train-the-trainer model for districts with no PD budget and no subs- Preview of the May 12 AI Symposium at the Pyramids in Indianapolis (for instructional leaders, not just teachers)- Writing feedback tools, 34 fifth graders, and how one AI feature could have saved a pregnant teacher's sanityBottom line: AI is not here to replace teachers. The teachers and students who learn to use it well will be the ones who move the needle on student achievement. And right now, Indiana is finally catching up.About Tanika Kinartail: Professional Learning Specialist at CIESC, Adjunct Faculty at Ivy Tech Indianapolis, certified MagicSchool AI Trainer, SIOP certified, 19 years in Indiana education. IU Bloomington alumna. Brownsburg, Indiana.Connect with Tanika Kinartail:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tanika-kinartailCIESC: https://ciesc.org/Keep Indiana Learning: https://keepindianalearning.org/Register for the CIESC AI Symposium → keepindianalearning.orgWork with Jason → [email protected] → linkedin.com/build-relation/newsletter-follow?entityUrn=7399599285849346048AGI Podcast shows:School's Out Saturdays: AI in education, K-12 through universityWeekly Blitz: AI news every Monday, 30-45 minutesData Bytes: Data literacy for business ownersThe Vibe: Deep conversations, no time limitAll platforms: linktr.ee/AGIPodcastFollow: Facebook + LinkedIn @AGIPodcast | Instagram @AGISchoolsout | X @NoCodeCAIOTools Jason recommends:MindStudio → get.mindstudio.ai/q7n7u5cttkdqRiverside.fm → riverside.sjv.io/e1xyBrWispr Flow → ref.wisprflow.ai/jason-padgett

Why are AI subscriptions about to break? This week's AI podcast unpacks tokenomics, the gym-membership flaw in ChatGPT and Claude pricing, and what happens when AI agents start running 50,000 queries a minute instead of one human at a time. Plus Huawei's 7nm chip independence, the Musk vs Altman trial, and what Meta's Indiana data center should look like if big tech borrowed the solar industry's community-benefit playbook.Key topics covered:AI tokenomics and why subscription pricing collapses under agentic workloadsHuawei 7nm chips running DeepSeek and Kimi K2 outside U.S. controlOpen-source vs closed-weights vs closed AI models, in plain EnglishThe Musk vs Altman OpenAI trial and the $151 billion questionWhether OpenAI ends up as a U.S. government arm of AIAlpha School, $100K teacher salaries, and AI in K-12 compensationMeta's Lebanon, Indiana data center and community-benefit agreementsBottom line: the AI economy is about to reprice itself, and the people who quietly benefit from that shift will not be the same people getting billed for it.About Julie Koehrer:On-Air Personality at Lafayette Q106.7. 15+ years in radio and broadcast.LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/juliekoehrer/Resources mentioned:OpenAI → https://openai.comAnthropic (Claude) → https://www.anthropic.comHuawei → https://www.huawei.comDeepSeek → https://www.deepseek.comKimi K2 → https://www.moonshot.cnAlpha School → https://alpha.schoolEmpire of AI by Karen Hao → https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780593657508/empireofaiWork with Jason → [email protected]: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jason-grant-padgett/X: https://x.com/NoCodeCAIONewsletters(No Code CAIO) → https://www.linkedin.com/build-relation/newsletter-follow?entityUrn=7399599285849346048(School's Out Notes from the Field) schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/field-notes-issue-1Available for interviews and keynotes on AI in education → [email protected]'s Out Saturdays → https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/AGI Podcast shows:School's Out Saturdays: AI in education, K-12 through universityWeekly Blitz: AI news every Monday, 30-45 minutesThe Vibe: Deep conversations, no time limitWebsite: schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/networkFollow: Facebook + LinkedIn @AGIPodcast | Instagram @AGISchoolsout | X @NoCodeCAIOTools Jason recommends:MindStudio → https://get.mindstudio.ai/q7n7u5cttkdqRiverside.fm → https://riverside.sjv.io/e1xyBrWispr Flow → https://ref.wisprflow.ai/jason-padgett

A graphic designer who uses AI every single day sits down with Jason to explain what that actually looks like – including why AI-generated logos can't be copyrighted and why ChatGPT will never give you the same output twice.Key topics covered:Using AI as a daily marketing and design tool: brain dumps, prompting strategy, and how to iterate fastWhy AI-generated logos create a copyright problem most clients don't see comingThe branding limitations of generative AI: fonts it can't name, colors that don't transfer, and outputs that all look the sameWhen should kids learn AI? Lauren changes her own answer mid-conversationAI bias explained at third-grade level: the "why did it keep hiring Jane?" exampleFailing fast with AI to get to the real solution fasterThe point guard mentality and why treating AI like a teammate beats being afraid of itLauren Dickerson is a working designer, not a tech person, and her perspective on what AI can and can't do for creative work is one of the most grounded takes you'll hear on the subject.About Lauren Dickerson: CEO and founder of Edit Me Lo Creative Agency, Indianapolis, IN. Visual identity designer, brand strategist, and creative director. Miami University graduate (Interactive Media Studies, 2020), former Division I basketball player at Miami of Ohio.LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/laurendickerson13/Website: https://editmelo.com/Resources mentioned: ChatGPT → https://chatgpt.com/ | Claude → https://claude.ai/ | NotebookLM → https://notebooklm.google.com/ | Canva → https://www.canva.com/Work with Jason → [email protected]: 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 → [email protected]'s Out Saturdays → https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/We're listing AI in education events around Indiana on the site.AGI Podcast shows:School's Out Saturdays: AI in education, K-12 through universityWeekly Blitz: AI news every Monday, 30-45 minutesThe Vibe: Deep conversations, no time limitAll platforms: https://linktr.ee/AGIPodcastFollow: Facebook + LinkedIn @AGIPodcast | Instagram @AGISchoolsout | X @NoCodeCAIOTools Jason recommends:MindStudio → https://get.mindstudio.ai/q7n7u5cttkdqRiverside.fm → https://riverside.sjv.io/e1xyBrWispr Flow → https://ref.wisprflow.ai/jason-padgett

Alpha School says its students finish core academics in two hours a day and score in the top 1% nationally on MAP tests. This episode gets into how that actually works.Jason and co-host Ronda Swartz (assistant principal, nearly 30 years in Catholic K-12 education) sit down with Sofia Swanson, Head of Partnerships at Alpha School, to walk through the 2 Hour Learning model from the beginning. MacKenzie Price founded the school in Austin in 2014 after her daughters started coming home disengaged from kindergarten. What grew from 16 kids meeting in someone's home is now expanding to about 25 campuses nationwide, with hundreds more families on waitlists to bring the model to their city.Key topics covered:- How the 2 Hour Learning model works: AI-personalized academics in the morning, life skills workshops every afternoon- MAP testing results: Alpha reports top 1% nationally and 2.5x faster growth vs. peers- The selection bias question: does this only work because of wealthy, motivated families?- Five life skill categories Alpha teaches at every grade level: teamwork, storytelling, entrepreneurship, relationship building, grit- How to bring Alpha to your city: the 25 founding families model- Whether this model can reach lower-income communities (and what principal Joe Liemandt says about a billion-kid goal)If you're in Indiana and interested in bringing Alpha to the area, Jason and Ronda want to connect you with other families. Reach out at [email protected] Sofia Swanson: Head of Partnerships, Alpha SchoolLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sofiaswanson/Alpha School: https://alpha.school/Bring Alpha to Your City: https://alpha.school/bring-alpha-to-your-city/About Ronda Swartz: Assistant Principal, Catholic High School, Indianapolis. Nearly 30 years in K-12 education, 18 years in Catholic school leadership. Currently implementing School AI and exploring Gemini.LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rondaswartz3177272065/Resources mentioned:Alpha School → https://alpha.school/Bring Alpha to Your City → https://alpha.school/bring-alpha-to-your-city/Alpha School events → https://alpha.school/upcoming-events/School AI → https://schoolai.comMagic School → https://www.magicschool.ai/NWEA MAP Testing → https://www.nwea.org/assessments/map-growth/Work with Jason → [email protected] | Director of Growth & Partnerships, CitizenAILinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jason-grant-padgett/X: https://x.com/NoCodeCAIOAvailable for interviews and keynotes on AI in education → [email protected]'s Out Saturdays → https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/Indiana AI in Education events (including AI Education Symposium, May 12) → https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/eventsAGI Podcast shows:School's Out Saturdays: AI in education, K-12 through universityWeekly Blitz: AI news every Monday, 30-45 minutesThe Vibe: Deep conversations, no time limitAll platforms: https://linktr.ee/AGIPodcastFollow: Facebook + LinkedIn @AGIPodcast | Instagram @AGISchoolsout | X @NoCodeCAIOTools Jason recommends:MindStudio → https://get.mindstudio.ai/q7n7u5cttkdqRiverside.fm → https://riverside.sjv.io/e1xyBrWispr Flow → https://ref.wisprflow.ai/jason-padgett

AI is forcing consulting, law, and web design to abandon hourly billing. Jason Padgett and Julie Koehrer unpack what changes when clients know AI compressed 20 hours of work into 3, and why workers aren't sharing in the productivity gains.Key topics covered:The death of hourly billing in consulting, law, and web designHow Claude in Chrome is building an entire HubSpot CRM in Jason's browser in real timeChatGPT image generation 2.0 and the AGI Podcast rebrand at agipodcast.aiMaine Governor Janet Mills vetoing a state AI bill and what it signalsThe Bernie Sanders question: who shares in AI productivity gains when companies make 5x but salaries stay flatData centers, energy regulation, and why some states will get left in the Stone AgeUS nuclear regulation versus China's buildout speedAnthropic's new model and the White House Department of Defense reversalIndiana's tech ecosystem: TechPoint Mira Awards, Mung Chiang at Purdue, Keep Indiana Learning's AI Symposium May 12Bottom line: AI isn't just changing what work gets done. It's rewriting how work gets priced, who gets paid, and which states are positioned to capture the next decade of growth.About Julie Koehrer:On-Air Personality at Lafayette Q106.7. 15+ years in radio and broadcast. Located in Lafayette, Indiana.Mentioned in this episode:AGI Podcast: https://agipodcast.aiThe Capacity Overload Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkwIdRatRCYCitizenAI: https://www.mycitizen.ai/Cars for Keeps: https://carsforkeeps.org/GiGi's Playhouse: https://gigisplayhouse.org/indianapolis/about/TechPoint: https://www.techpoint.org/Central Indiana Corporate Partnership: https://www.cicpindiana.com/CIESC: https://ciesc.org/Keep Indiana Learning AI Symposium: https://keepindianalearning.org/upcoming-events/?_sft_big_topics=aiColin Stauffer: https://www.linkedin.com/in/colin-stauffer-77411345/Proxurve Solutions: https://proxurve.com/Work with Jason: [email protected]: https://www.linkedin.com/build-relation/newsletter-follow?entityUrn=7399599285849346048AGI Podcast shows:School's Out Saturdays: AI in education, K-12 through universityWeekly Blitz: AI news every Monday, 30-45 minutesData Bytes: Data literacy for business ownersThe Vibe: Deep conversations, no time limitAll platforms: https://linktr.ee/AGIPodcastFollow: Facebook + LinkedIn @AGIPodcast | Instagram @AGISchoolsout | X @NoCodeCAIOTools Jason recommends:MindStudio: https://get.mindstudio.ai/q7n7u5cttkdqRiverside.fm: https://riverside.sjv.io/e1xyBrWispr Flow: https://ref.wisprflow.ai/jason-padgett

Only 23% of Americans have a positive view of AI in 2026, about the same approval rating as ICE. Jason Padgett and Julie Koehrer dig into why the gap between foundation-model leaders and the public is widening, and why Jason argues the fix isn't UBI, it's equity.Key topics covered:- The April 6 shooting of Indiana Councilman Ron Gibson's house (13 rounds, "No Data Centers" note) and the Molotov cocktail at Sam Altman's home on April 10- Why Sam Altman's "philosopher kings" narrative and Dario Amodei's 50% white-collar job loss warnings are making the backlash worse- How Demis Hassabis and AlphaFold prove drug discovery was the smarter first move for AI- Maine's data center moratorium vs. New Hampshire's "compute free or die" constitutional proposal- Why Trump's $1,000 newborn S&P 500 account is a model for AI profit-sharing- The buy-in vs. UBI argument: Americans want equity in the systems they help train- The Enhanced Games in Vegas on Memorial Day, Pascal's Wager applied to longevity, and whether you'd upload your consciousness- Brain-computer interfaces, space colonization, and the solar punk movementBottom line: AI's PR problem isn't about the technology. It's about who owns the upside.About Julie Koehrer: On-Air Personality at Lafayette Q106.7 | 15+ years in radio and broadcast | Lafayette, Indiana | https://www.linkedin.com/in/juliekoehrer/Work with Jason → [email protected]🌐 https://www.phoenixsolutionsgroup.org/Newsletter → https://www.linkedin.com/build-relation/newsletter-follow?entityUrn=7399599285849346048AGI Podcast shows:School's Out Saturdays: AI in education, K-12 through universityWeekly Blitz: AI news every Monday, 30-45 minutesThe Vibe: Deep conversations, no time limitAll platforms: https://linktr.ee/AGIPodcastFollow: Facebook + LinkedIn @AGIPodcast | Instagram @AGISchoolsout | X @NoCodeCAIOTools Jason recommends:MindStudio → https://get.mindstudio.ai/q7n7u5cttkdqRiverside.fm → https://riverside.sjv.io/e1xyBrWispr Flow → https://ref.wisprflow.ai/jason-padgett

What if professors started grading the AI prompt instead of just the final paper? Mark Lowe, Program Chair for Entrepreneurship at Ivy Tech Community College in Lafayette, Indiana, is testing exactly that next semester. Jason Padgett sits down with Mark, a psychology professor and 10-year educator, to talk about what AI in college classrooms actually looks like when the goal is learning, not policing.Key topics covered:Grade the prompt, not just the paper: Mark's new policy for next semester at Ivy TechEbbinghaus forgetting curve: why 80% of what students learn is gone within 70 minutes without sleep, recall testing, and teaching it to someone elseWhy "AI is ruining students" is usually a teaching problem, not a technology problemThe venture development paradox: when research becomes procrastination in disguiseOnly 41% of college faculty had AI training as of 2025 (and why that gap is widening)Why higher ed curriculum is structurally 5 years behind emerging technologyUsing Claude as a debate partner instead of a homework machineData literacy as the number one skill parents should push on high schoolers right nowBottom line: the cheaters will cheat and the lazy will be lazy. AI just makes that harder to hide, and it hands serious students a tutor their professors can't match.About Mark Lowe: Program Chair for Entrepreneurship at Ivy Tech Community College, Lafayette Indiana. Psychology professor, former business consultant, master's in psychology from Indiana State University. Helped launch roughly 30 businesses from the Ivy Tech entrepreneurship program in three years.Connect with Mark:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-lowe-1b359269/Ivy Tech Entrepreneurship: https://www.ivytech.edu/programs/all-academic-programs/garatoni-school-of-entrepreneurship-innovation/entrepreneurship/Ivy Tech Lafayette: https://www.ivytech.edu/locations/lafayette/Work with Jason → [email protected]🌐 https://www.phoenixsolutionsgroup.org/Newsletter → https://www.linkedin.com/build-relation/newsletter-follow?entityUrn=7399599285849346048AI Launchpad → https://www.skool.com/signup?ref=025b0ccdd6374664a2aab5df527ab2f5AGI Podcast shows:School's Out Saturdays: AI in education, K-12 through universityWeekly Blitz: AI news every Monday, 30-45 minutesData Bytes: Data literacy for business ownersThe Vibe: Deep conversations, no time limitAll platforms: https://linktr.ee/AGIPodcastFollow: Facebook + LinkedIn @AGIPodcast | Instagram @AGISchoolsout | X @NoCodeCAIOTools Jason recommends:MindStudio → https://get.mindstudio.ai/q7n7u5cttkdqRiverside.fm → https://riverside.sjv.io/e1xyBrWispr Flow → https://ref.wisprflow.ai/jason-padgett

Claude Mythos dropped with warnings about breaking 50-year-old encryption and being too dangerous for public release. CitizenAI COO Oliver Belanger says it's something else entirely: one of the most well-targeted enterprise sales campaigns the AI industry has ever run.Key topics covered:Why AI companies use fear to drive consumer attention and investor fundingThe Anthropic vs. OpenAI business philosophy divide: lead bullets vs. silver bulletsToken maxing: why measuring AI productivity by token spend is this generation's lines-of-code mistakeThe Sam Altman leadership profile and the Eddie Haskell comparisonWhat Mythos is actually selling and who the real target audience is (hint: 15 hyperscalers, not you)Demis Hassabis, Jensen Huang, and what aligned incentives actually look like at the CEO levelBottom line: Mythos is not the end of the world. It's a targeted pitch to the largest tech companies on earth, wrapped in just enough danger to make the press do the marketing for free.About Oliver Belanger:Chief Operating Officer, CitizenAI. CitizenAI connects individuals to community resources, food pantries, federal programs, and workforce development services. Oliver co-hosts Capacity Overload: AI for Social Work with Jason [email protected] | https://www.linkedin.com/in/oliverbelanger/Capacity Overload: AI for Social WorkYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkwIdRatRCYSpotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0mXcfpxy0al2vlg3Tteg7MWork with Jason → [email protected] → https://www.linkedin.com/in/jason-grant-padgett/Newsletter → https://www.linkedin.com/build-relation/newsletter-follow?entityUrn=7399599285849346048AGI Podcast shows:School's Out Saturdays: AI in education, K-12 through universityWeekly Blitz: AI news every Monday, 30-45 minutesData Bytes: Data literacy for business ownersThe Vibe: Deep conversations, no time limitAll platforms: https://linktr.ee/AGIPodcastFollow: Facebook + LinkedIn @AGIPodcast | Instagram @AGISchoolsout | X @NoCodeCAIOTools Jason recommends:MindStudio → https://get.mindstudio.ai/q7n7u5cttkdqRiverside.fm → https://riverside.sjv.io/e1xyBrWispr Flow → https://ref.wisprflow.ai/jason-padgett

AI makes students faster. The harder question is whether it's making them better thinkers, and Hunter Hickman, district AI implementation leader at Rensselaer Central Schools in Indiana, is one of the few educators actually building systems to answer that.Hunter is part of the Indiana Department of Education advisory group designing the state's first tiered AI certification for teachers. He ran the 9-12 Khanmigo rollout at his school with a 92% student activation rate. In this conversation, he and Jason unpack where the "AI is cheating" debate has gone quiet and what's replaced it: cognitive offloading, the difference between augmentation and automation, and why rewarding the final product over the learning process is the thing that's actually broken.Key topics covered:Indiana's tiered AI teacher certification program and what makes it different from typical micro-credentialsCognitive offloading: where the line is between speeding up work and eroding your own thinkingWhy AI is not like a calculator (and why that analogy keeps causing problems in schools)How a 415-student rural district used NotebookLM to keep students in the learning loopWhat it means to be an AI power user with zero computer science backgroundKhanmigo vs. general LLM fluency: why ed-tech tools alone aren't enoughThe case for assessing student process, not just the final productAnthropic vs. OpenAI in the classroom, and the social media regulation conversationHunter also shares how leaning into AI as a teacher opened doors he didn't see coming: speaking at state conferences, serving on the IDOE advisory committee, and launching Hickman Consulting LLC.About Hunter Hickman: Secondary English educator, district AI implementation leader, and founder of Hickman Consulting LLC. Based in Northwest Indiana. Completing an M.S. in English Education at Indiana Wesleyan University with research on generative AI feedback loops and student writing autonomy.Website: https://www.hickmanconsultingai.com/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hunter-hickman-m-s-2b501383/Work with Jason: [email protected]: https://www.linkedin.com/build-relation/newsletter-follow?entityUrn=7399599285849346048X @NoCodeCAIOAGI Podcast shows:School's Out Saturdays: AI in education, K-12 through universityWeekly Blitz: AI news every Monday, 30-45 minutesData Bytes: Data literacy for business ownersThe Vibe: Deep conversations, no time limitAll platforms: https://linktr.ee/AGIPodcastFollow: Facebook + LinkedIn @AGIPodcast | Instagram @AGISchoolsout Tools Jason recommends:MindStudio: https://get.mindstudio.ai/q7n7u5cttkdqRiverside.fm: https://riverside.sjv.io/e1xyBrWispr Flow: https://ref.wisprflow.ai/jason-padgett

Most AI projects fail before they start because businesses skip the most important step: figuring out what's actually broken. Jason Padgett and Adam Staples unpack why clarity has to come before automation, what the recent Claude code leak actually tells us about AI development culture, and whether the current wave of AI layoffs is real efficiency or EBITDA spin.Key topics covered:Why small businesses can't follow the enterprise AI playbook — resources, talent, and timeline don't match"You cannot automate chaos" — Chakra BPC's process-first approach to AI deploymentThe Turing test in real life: an AI-written newsletter that fooled a credentialed English teacherOpenAI's media network acquisition and what AI-controlled journalism does to independent coverageThe Claude source code leak: human error, competitive ethics, and the "honor among thieves" argumentAI layoffs at companies like Salesforce — EBITDA cover story or actual automation gains?Why liberal arts and communication skills are becoming the most valuable AI adjacencyWhat data science and CS graduates should be targeting instead of big tech entry-level rolesSpaceX IPO timing, AI company valuations, and whether the private market can absorb themData centers in orbit: costs, robotics requirements, and Silicon Valley magical thinkingBottom line: Scale people, don't replace them. The businesses getting real ROI from AI are the ones who started by fixing their processes, not buying the pixie dust.About Adam Staples: Founder of Chakra Business Process Consulting, Indianapolis, Indiana. 25 years in telecom, SaaS, and IT consulting. Helps SMBs build operational clarity before deploying AI. chakrabpc.comWork with Jason → [email protected]🌐 https://www.phoenixsolutionsgroup.org/Newsletter → https://www.linkedin.com/build-relation/newsletter-follow?entityUrn=7399599285849346048AGI Podcast shows:School's Out Saturdays: AI in education, K-12 through universityWeekly Blitz: AI news every Monday, 30-45 minutesData Bytes: Data literacy for business ownersThe Vibe: Deep conversations, no time limitAll platforms: https://linktr.ee/AGIPodcastFollow: Facebook + LinkedIn @AGIPodcast | Instagram @AGISchoolsout | X @NoCodeCAIOTools Jason recommends:MindStudio → https://get.mindstudio.ai/q7n7u5cttkdqRiverside.fm → https://riverside.sjv.io/e1xyBrWispr Flow → https://ref.wisprflow.ai/jason-padgett

AI teacher certification is getting built from scratch in Indiana — and the guy designing it explains exactly how. Ryan Murray, Project Specialist at the Central Indiana Educational Service Center, breaks down the SAIL certification program (Strategic AI Integration and Leadership), a three-tier framework built with educators, higher ed, and industry across the state.Key topics covered:Why rural Indiana districts are ahead of suburban schools on AI adoption, and what suburban districts are getting wrongThe three-tier SAIL certification: AI literacy, classroom integration, and global leadershipData privacy and student PII: why ed-tech companies lead with safety and what that means for district buying decisionsWhy prompt engineering is fundamentally a communication skill, not a tech skillWhat AI jobs exist right now that nobody is training students for — red teaming, evals, multi-model fluencyRyan's advice to students: get off your computers, talk to people, those skills transfer directlyThe bottom line: educators are waiting for AI to be proven before they adopt it, but the students in their classrooms right now can't afford to wait.About Ryan Murray: Project Specialist at the Central Indiana Educational Service Center (CIESC), AI education program designer, former K-12 teacher and IU Indianapolis adjunct instructor. Three years building AI literacy infrastructure for central Indiana school districts.LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rpmurray7/CIESC: https://www.ciesc.orgWork with Jason → [email protected] → https://www.linkedin.com/build-relation/newsletter-follow?entityUrn=7399599285849346048AGI Podcast shows:School's Out Saturdays: AI in education, K-12 through universityWeekly Blitz: AI news every Monday, 30-45 minutesData Bytes: Data literacy for business ownersThe Vibe: Deep conversations, no time limitAll platforms → https://linktr.ee/AGIPodcastFollow: Facebook + LinkedIn @AGIPodcast | Instagram @AGISchoolsout | X @NoCodeCAIOTools:MindStudio → https://get.mindstudio.ai/q7n7u5cttkdqRiverside.fm → https://riverside.sjv.io/e1xyBrWispr Flow → ⁠https://ref.wisprflow.ai/jason-padgett⁠

OpenAI is shutting down Sora and pivoting its entire enterprise strategy to compete with Anthropic — and that's just one move in a week that also saw Apple replace Siri with Google Gemini, the federal government release its first AI safety framework, and Meta and YouTube lose jury trials over addictive algorithm lawsuits.Key topics covered:OpenAI kills Sora and exits adult AI companion features, refocusing on enterprise to chase AnthropicApple makes deal to power Siri with Google Gemini — what to actually expectFederal AI safety framework: first real steps toward national regulationMeta and YouTube sued over addictive algorithms — why this could crack open massive legal exposureJason's live experiment: giving Claude Code a $100 Walmart card and control of the AGI Podcast's social channels to see if an AI agent can monetize a podcastWhy agentic AI tools are worth watching but not worth rushing into yet (and what to do instead)The real risk of anthropomorphizing AI — "soul docs," companion apps, and what it's doing to young peopleJulie teaches Walla's AI 101 class for retirees and gets some great nonprofit board questionsMelania's classroom robot rollout and why it's getting ahead of where the technology actually isWatch recommendation: "The Thinking Game" — the Demis Hassabis and AlphaGo documentaryBottom line: A lot moved this week, but the most practical story is a simple question: can an AI agent actually run a podcast and make money from it? Jason's testing that in real time.About Julie Koehrer: On-Air Personality at Lafayette Q106.7 | 15+ years in radio and broadcast | Lafayette, IndianaLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/juliekoehrer/Work with Jason → [email protected] Newsletter → https://www.linkedin.com/build-relation/newsletter-follow?entityUrn=7399599285849346048AGI Podcast shows:School's Out Saturdays: AI in education, K-12 through universityWeekly Blitz: AI news every Monday, 30-45 minutesData Bytes: Data literacy for business ownersThe Vibe: Deep conversations, no time limitAll platforms: https://linktr.ee/AGIPodcastFollow: Facebook + LinkedIn @AGIPodcast | Instagram @AGISchoolsout | X @NoCodeCAIOTools Jason recommends:MindStudio → https://get.mindstudio.ai/q7n7u5cttkdqRiverside.fm → https://riverside.sjv.io/e1xyBrWispr Flow → https://ref.wisprflow.ai/jason-padgett

What does AI literacy actually mean for K-12 students, and why are most school districts getting it wrong? Kristen Kayser, Senior Lead for the Midwest at aiEDU (AI Education Project), joins Jason Padgett to answer that question — and to explain why buying AI tools without a district-wide strategy creates more problems than it solves.Key topics covered:Why workforce leaders say AI literacy is a requirement for every student, not just future software engineersWhat AI literacy actually means: critical evaluation of outputs, not just knowing how to use appsIndiana's SAIL initiative, a credentialing program from the Central Indiana ESC that trains educators on AI pedagogy and AI as a technologyThe district AI strategy gap: why teachers get trained on tools but schools never define how AI should actually be usedWhat a real AI task force looks like, with parents, students, community members, and district leaders at the tableA real-world example of AI literacy in a high school student who switched from ChatGPT to Claude on her own and articulated whyIf you work in education, ed-tech, workforce development, or you're a parent watching schools fumble AI policy, this episode will give you a clearer picture of what good looks like.About Kristen Kayser: Senior Lead, Midwest at aiEDU | Former high school math teacher (9 years, Cleveland Heights High School) | Former principal and mastery learning specialist, Cleveland Metro | Former College Board state and district partnerships | Dayton, OhioConnect with Kristen Kayser: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kristen-kayser/Learn more about aiEDU: https://aiedu.orgWork with Jason → [email protected] → https://www.linkedin.com/build-relation/newsletter-follow?entityUrn=7399599285849346048AGI Podcast shows:School's Out Saturdays: AI in education, K-12 through universityWeekly Blitz: AI news every Monday, 30-45 minutesData Bytes: Data literacy for business ownersThe Vibe: Deep conversations, no time limitAll platforms: https://linktr.ee/AGIPodcastFollow: Facebook + LinkedIn @AGIPodcast | Instagram @AGISchoolsout | X @NoCodeCAIOTools Jason recommends:MindStudio → https://get.mindstudio.ai/q7n7u5cttkdqRiverside.fm → https://riverside.sjv.io/e1xyBrWispr Flow → https://ref.wisprflow.ai/jason-padgett

OpenAI called an internal code red. Anthropic is winning enterprise. ChatGPT launched ads. And the question nobody in your company wants to answer: if AI is making employees twice as productive, where is that money going?Key topics covered:OpenAI vs. Anthropic enterprise race: what "code red" actually means and why Anthropic is pulling aheadChatGPT free tier advertising: what the experience looks like and how users are reactingAI in healthcare and elder care: HIPAA compliance barriers, real-time family communication tools, and why this is still an unsolved problemAI music (Suno), AI film production, and what happens to mediocre talent when technology narrows the gapOutcome-based pay, unlimited PTO done right, and why consulting billing is already breaking under AI efficiency pressureIf AI is handling half your workload, you should probably be having a compensation conversation. Most people aren't.About Julie Koehrer: On-Air Personality at Lafayette Q106.7, 15+ years in radio and broadcast. Lafayette, Indiana.LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/juliekoehrer/Work with Jason: [email protected]: https://www.linkedin.com/build-relation/newsletter-follow?entityUrn=7399599285849346048AGI Podcast shows:School's Out Saturdays: AI in education, K-12 through universityWeekly Blitz: AI news every Monday, 30-45 minutesData Bytes: Data literacy for business ownersThe Vibe: Deep conversations, no time limitAll platforms: https://linktr.ee/AGIPodcastFollow: Facebook + LinkedIn @AGIPodcast | X @NoCodeCAIOTools Jason recommends:MindStudio: https://get.mindstudio.ai/q7n7u5cttkdqRiverside.fm: https://riverside.sjv.io/e1xyBrWispr Flow: https://ref.wisprflow.ai/jason-padgett