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Deacs.AI — 76 episodes

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Building Empires from a Dorm Room with Guest Aidan Oliss

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Video Dive: NotebookLM Demo

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

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

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

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

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Quick Dive: Blind Q and A With Ryan

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

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

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

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Nostalgia for a Renaissance Education with Guest Talon Keeler

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Quick Dive: Answering AI's Burning Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Deacs.AI Live from AI Fest 2025 - Day 2

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Deacs.AI Live from AI Fest 2025 - Day 1

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

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Building the Holodeck: How AI is Learning Physics

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

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

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

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Old Man Yells at Clouds with Guest Jason Fanning

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Quick Dive - Ethically Questionable Playing Around with Suno

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

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

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

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

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

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The AI Gripes Show

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

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

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I Think, Therefore AI Am? with Guest Tobias Flattery

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

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

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

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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

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Quick Dive: When AI Puts Words in Your Mouth

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

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

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

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Quick Dive: How the Sausage is Made

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

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

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Superheroes in RAGs? with Guest Juan Hernandez

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

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

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

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Quick Dive: Crafting Worlds and Slaying Dragons with AI

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

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

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

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Quick Dive: Generative AI Meets Juice Boxes and Homework

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Making a Call to the AI Bullpen with Guest Mark Anderson

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Quick Dive: The Podcast So Far Recap

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

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

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Quick Dive: The Gem Rush - Mining for Custom AI

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

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

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Glue on Pizza with Guest Will Tomlinson

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

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Six Fingered Zombie Santa with Guest Kevin Frazier

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Quick Dive: Making Of Tales from the AI Frontier

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

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Real Life Jack Ryan with Guest Thomas Brister

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Real World AI for Productivity: Insights from Greg Collins

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Welcome to Deacs.AI: Our Origin Story