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AI and Humanity: Student Discussion 2

AI and Humanity: Student Discussion 1

AI and Humanity: Foundations for Our Future with Guest William Cochran

Discovering the Educator's True Value Proposition When AI Sits in the Front Row with Guest Alise Raak

Professors of the Round Table: Wake Forest University Faculty Debate AI and Learning with Guests Betsy Barre, Erin Branch, Tobias Flattery, and Will Fleeson

Quick Dive: Blind Q and A With Michael

Confessions of an AI Workaholic with Guest Ryan Melvin

How We Actually Use AI: Real Use Cases from Ryan and Michael

Advice to Higher Education from Real World AI with Guest Seth Carpien

Watching My Dreams Come to Life with Guest Becket Spencer

2026 Global Impact Award for Teaching and Learning Excellence with guest Shannon McKeen

Rewriting the Higher Ed Playbook with a Masters in Artificial Intelligence Strategy and Innovation with Guest Carmen Taglienti

Building Empires from a Dorm Room with Guest Aidan Oliss

Video Dive: NotebookLM Demo

Robot Umpires, AI Judges, and the Strike Zone of Justice with Guest Keith Robinson

If You Give a Student a Supercomputer... with Guest Jalen Marshall

Quick Dive: From Draft Boards to Dashboards - What the NFL Draft Teaches Us About AI in Higher Education

Cognitive Leverage or Scholarly Subterfuge: The Paradox of Modern Academics with Guest Alexander Sun

Quick Dive: Blind Q and A With Ryan

R.I.P. Em Dash — How I Loved Thee with Guest Caroline Collins

Don Draper Never Had a Partner Like This with Guest Ged King

Bot vs Bot: Symmetry in Asymmetric AI Cyber Warfare with Guest Jay Bhalodia

Nostalgia for a Renaissance Education with Guest Talon Keeler

Quick Dive: Answering AI's Burning Questions

In a New World Order of Abundant Technical Skills, Soft Skills are the True Superpower with Guest Nam Tran

Quick Dive: Integrating the Learning Perspective - AI at Wake Forest

AI is the e-Bike for the Mind with Guest Kyre Lahtinen

Jiu-Jitsu Belts and Silicon: How an AI-Forward Student Grapples with College with Guest Logan Jacobs

The Ghost in the Grammar: A Linguist’s Guide to the Machine’s Soul with Guest Jerid Francom, Part II

A Techno-Hobbyist and Corpus Linguist Walk into a Petri Dish with Guest Jerid Francom, Part I

Licensed to Code: These Agents are Swarming the Amazon with Guest Sarra Alqahtani

The Deacs.AI Retrospective Part III: The Guardrails - Ethics, Security, and Bias

The Deacs.AI Retrospective Part II: From Crisis to Classroom: AIs Higher Ed Transformation

The Deacs.AI Retrospective Part I: Lessons from the 2025 Frontier

A Conversation with Wake Forest Leadership about Shaping the Future of Artificial Intelligence at the University with Guests Mur Muchane and Anne Hardcastle

Deacs.AI Live from AI Fest 2025 - Day 2

Deacs.AI Live from AI Fest 2025 - Day 1

Augustine in the Algorithm: Can AI Ever Truly Be Conscious? with Guest Dr. Kevin Jung

Building the Holodeck: How AI is Learning Physics

Turning Your Liberal Arts Degree into an AI Superpower with Guest Bill Zandi

Red, Yellow, Green: A Framework for AI in the Creative Classroom with Guest Chris Sheridan and William Cochran

"While True"—The Em Dash of Computer Coding with Guest Sarah Parsons

Old Man Yells at Clouds with Guest Jason Fanning

Quick Dive - Ethically Questionable Playing Around with Suno

What Happens When Your Finance Department's AI Thinks It's Gandalf with Guests Kim Crewey and Allison Belton

The Seduction of Vacuous Competence with Guests Ryan Shirey and Carter Smith

My Students Used AI on Their Assignments. And I Gave Them an A with Guest Jed Macosko

The Oracle of the OPCD Says That Pro Humanitate Will Be Our North Star in the Age of AI with Guest Andy Chan

Quick Dive: Supercharged - A Deep Dive into NotebookLM's Massive Update

The AI Gripes Show

I Spoke, I Coded, I Conquered with Guest Philip Howard

Quick Dive: A Prompt for Every Occasion - Real-World AI Uses

I Think, Therefore AI Am? with Guest Tobias Flattery

The Battle for the Classroom: The Sage on the Stage vs GPT-5 with Guest Raina Haque

What Aristotle, Star Trek, and the Antikythera Mechanism Have to Say About AI Ethics with Guest William Cochran

Quick Dive: Somebody Please Help Me Understand What An Open Source Model Is

We Were Supposed to Get Rosie from The Jetsons; Instead, We Got Cheat Machines with Guests ZSR librarians—Amanda Kaufman, Denice Lewis, and Elizabeth Ellis

Quick Dive: When AI Puts Words in Your Mouth

The Apricot Dumpling and the Apocalypse: Navigating AI's Promise and Peril with Guest Will Fleeson

Quick Dive: From Socrates to Silicon Valley - How AI is Using Classic Teaching Methods to Help You Master Any Subject

Decoding the Black Box: AI, Truth, and the New Arms Race with Guest James Proszek

Quick Dive: How the Sausage is Made

Remember to Add the Blueberries BEFORE Baking the Muffins with Guest Eudora Struble

Quick Dive: Unlocking AI at Wake Forest - Workshops, Groups, and More with Guest Sarah Wojcik-Gross

Superheroes in RAGs? with Guest Juan Hernandez

Quickish Dive: No Holds Barred - Former Student Tells All!

Agent Jessica Reynolds: Her Mission, Should You Choose to Accept It... with Guest Tim Synder

Is the Cost of Knowledge Acquisition Now a Dad Joke? with Guest Shannon McKeen

Quick Dive: Crafting Worlds and Slaying Dragons with AI

Johnny Cash Singing Barbie Girl and Educators Leveling Up with Generative AI with Guest Elizabeth Ricks

"It's Complicated": Philosophical Thoughts on Using Generative AI for Learning with Guest Betsy Barre

Building Better Thinkers: Why STEM Minds Need a Palette of Liberal Arts with Guest Dr. Fred Salsbury

Quick Dive: Generative AI Meets Juice Boxes and Homework

Making a Call to the AI Bullpen with Guest Mark Anderson

Quick Dive: The Podcast So Far Recap

I Learned How to Use AI by Cheating with Guest Amy Slack

The Painter's House Needs to be Painted with Guest Jeff Teague

Quick Dive: The Gem Rush - Mining for Custom AI

Blown Away: An Educator’s AI Awakening with Guest Adam Friedman

Quick Dive: From Code to Composition - How AI is Assisting Creators

Glue on Pizza with Guest Will Tomlinson

Quick Dive: Come Vibe Code with Me with Guest Amy Triana

Six Fingered Zombie Santa with Guest Kevin Frazier

Quick Dive: Making Of Tales from the AI Frontier

The First Inning of the Artificial Intelligence Ballgame with Guest John Montana

Real Life Jack Ryan with Guest Thomas Brister

Real World AI for Productivity: Insights from Greg Collins

Welcome to Deacs.AI: Our Origin Story