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EPISODE DESCRIPTION When AI can write copy, analyze campaigns, generate research, and produce video, what should students still learn deeply enough to do themselves? David LaCombe, fractional CMO, educator, and author of Marketing2aT, argues that the answer starts with judgment. Technical fluency still matters, but young professionals also need business acumen, empathy, communication, perspective, and enough expertise to know when an AI answer is useful and when it is wrong. Jason and David move from marketing into a bigger education question: AI cannot remain a separate class or occasional classroom tool. It is becoming part of the work itself. They discuss design thinking, deliberate practice, AI as a thinking partner, T-shaped skills, the value of generalists and specialists, and why students need opportunities to test ideas, get feedback, and make decisions in uncertain conditions. The takeaway: prepare students to work with AI without handing their judgment over to it. Then look at your own curriculum and ask where AI should become part of the thread rather than an add-on. ABOUT THE GUEST David LaCombe is a fractional CMO, marketing educator, and author of Marketing2aT: Become the Marketer Every Team Wants. His work focuses on helping marketers connect technical skill with business judgment, communication, and cross-functional understanding. GUEST LINKS LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidlacombe Website: https://davidlacombecmo.com/ Marketing2aT: https://books.google.com/books/about/Marketing2aT.html?id=c7rx0QEACAAJ TIME STAMPS 00:00 - From paramedic to marketer and author 06:27 - What AI changes about marketing 09:34 - Design thinking, empathy, and customer understanding 15:04 - AI content and what small organizations can realistically do 19:03 - Brand consistency, AI video, and avoiding slop 24:58 - Deliberate practice, feedback, and learning faster 27:34 - AI in higher education and the limits of prohibition 31:42 - Beginner's mind and AI as a curriculum thread 35:00 - Teaching students to use AI without giving up their thinking 39:24 - Marketing2aT and the case for T-shaped professionals 41:44 - What should a 14-year-old study for an AI-shaped future? 46:24 - Generalists, specialists, and why expertise still matters 48:09 - Philosophy, perspective, and human judgment 50:02 - Work, passion, relationships, and balance CONNECT WITH JASON PADGETT Jason Padgett | AI Solutions Architect | Co-Founder, Wooden Boy Industries | Host, AGI Podcast | AI Adoption, LLM Systems & Human-AI Workflows AGI - Advance Grow and Innovate with AI Podcast Network 🌐 https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/ CoFounder, Wooden Boy Industries 🌐 https://woodenboyindustriesai.com/ Chief Solutions Architect, Chakra AI Solutions 🌐 https://chakrasolutions.ai/ 📧 jason@agipodcast.ai RESOURCES MENTIONED Marketing2aT: Become the Marketer Every Team Wants https://books.google.com/books/about/Marketing2aT.html?id=c7rx0QEACAAJ Yeshiva University Digital Marketing and Media https://www.yu.edu/katz/digital-marketing-media Creativity, Inc. by Ed Catmull https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/216369/creativity-inc-by-ed-catmull-with-amy-wallace/9780804127448 CORRECTION At 52:54, Jason gives the Skynet date as August 31, 1997. The date in Terminator 2 is August 29, 1997.

SEX, DRUGS, AND SOCIAL MEDIA BANS Meta’s multibillion-dollar settlement over alleged harm to young users raises an uncomfortable question: What happens when an algorithm becomes more compelling than the person standing beside you? Jason Padgett and Julie Koehrer start with teenagers, dopamine, sex, drugs, and the stress created by a nonstop stream of bad news. Then the conversation turns to AI agents, reward hacking, micromanagement, data centers, surveillance, and why so many people feel technology is being done to them instead of built with them. Jason shares the operating system he is building across four computers and explains why small organizations may get better results by defining the boundaries and desired outcome, then giving an AI agent room to find its own path. The same principle keeps surfacing: people need agency. Whether the issue is social media restrictions, workplace AI, data centers, or Flock cameras, informed participation matters more than another decision handed down from above. IN THIS EPISODE • How social media may compete with normal human connection • Why Jason is turning agent work into a points-based game • How excessive process rules can encourage reward hacking • Why AI agents and micromanaged employees take similar shortcuts • What communities deserve to know before accepting data centers • How surveillance technology can provide safety and social control • Why expensive Alpha School results need broader testing • What responsible AI adoption looks like when people retain agency TIME STAMPS 00:00 - Julie pauses ChatGPT for vacation 00:48 - Jason’s four-computer AI operating system 02:10 - Teenagers, phones, attraction, and social anxiety 03:24 - Meta’s settlement and addictive social media design 04:08 - Drugs, dopamine, stress, and natural instincts 08:30 - Recovery, acceptance, and controllable problems 11:20 - Building an AI system that completes the work 15:04 - Automating content, production, CRM, and outreach 17:40 - Using points to prioritize AI-agent work 18:35 - Agent harnesses for enterprises and small businesses 21:08 - Reward hacking and hidden shortcuts 23:38 - De Kai’s argument for “raising” AI 24:42 - Why data-center education belongs in AI adoption 29:27 - Agency, community input, and resistance to AI 31:12 - Flock cameras, public safety, and social control 34:15 - Alpha School’s price and selection problem 35:38 - Alanis Morissette, Dogma, and Julie’s vacation RESOURCES MENTIONED Meta settlement over teen social media addiction, August 2026: https://apnews.com/article/meta-trial-instagram-settlement-97d342f2a33d835eda2356c5e1af9e37 Anthropic research on reward hacking in multi-agent systems: https://www.anthropic.com/research/multiagent-systems Raising AI by De Kai: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262049764/raising-ai/ MISO information on large electrical-load additions: https://www.misoenergy.org/planning/large-loads---container-page/large-load-additions/ Alpha School locations and tuition: https://alpha.school/locations/ HOST LINKS Jason Padgett Relentless, unapologetically contrarian, and driven to make AI practical for everyday people. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jason-grant-padgett/ Email: jason@agipodcast.ai The AGI Podcast Network Advance, Grow, and Innovate with AI. https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/ Chakra AI Solutions Chief Solutions Architect https://chakrasolutions.ai/ Wooden Boy Industries Bring 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/ Sprite Practical AI capability for solopreneurs who want to learn the tools and use them well themselves. https://woodenboyindustriesai.com/sprite/ CO-HOST LINKS Julie Koehrer Curious, candid, deeply community-minded, and never afraid to ask the question everyone else is thinking. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/juliekoehrer Q106.7: https://lafayetteq1067.com/

EPISODE DESCRIPTION Agentic AI is changing the job description of ordinary knowledge workers before most companies have prepared them for it. Employees who once completed individual tasks are increasingly expected to delegate work to AI agents, question polished outputs, coordinate systems, and take responsibility for what gets produced. Crissy Koger, COO of Chakra AI Solutions, has spent more than a decade between executive leadership, developers, and end users. She and Jason talk about why systems thinking transfers so well to AI, how technical writing became an unexpectedly valuable skill, and whether organizations are ready for workers to manage teams of agents. The conversation also reaches into AI literacy in schools, the importance of women at the table when consequential technology decisions are made, and the human judgment that automation cannot be allowed to replace. The takeaway is direct: learning to use AI is only the beginning. We must learn to manage it. ABOUT THE GUEST Crissy Koger is the Chief Operating Officer at Chakra AI Solutions. Her career spans systems implementation, infrastructure, cybersecurity, Salesforce administration, software testing, process improvement, and executive strategy. She is especially good at translating between leaders, developers, and the people who must actually use the systems they build. GUEST LINKS Crissy Koger on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/crissykoger/ Chakra AI Solutions: https://chakrasolutions.ai/ TIME STAMPS 00:00 - Crissy's career between executives, developers, and end users 05:02 - What no-code AI would have sounded like in 2022 09:24 - Using ChatGPT for communication, analysis, and leadership gaps 14:50 - AI as a translator between people who speak different professional languages 19:13 - Prompt engineering gives way to systems thinking 25:49 - AI literacy, ethics, and teaching children how these systems work 34:37 - Quantitative analysis as preparation for AI collaboration 38:36 - Are workers ready for agentic AI workflows? 47:29 - AI changes how knowledge workers create and edit deliverables 49:58 - Every knowledge worker becomes a manager and critic 51:12 - Why women need a stronger voice in consequential AI decisions 58:39 - Leadership books for the age of AI CONNECT WITH JASON PADGETT Jason Padgett Open-minded explorer, podcast host, next-gen leader, team member, and coach. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jason-grant-padgett/ Wooden Boy Industries Bring 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/ Sprite Practical AI capability for solopreneurs who want to learn the tools and use them well themselves. https://woodenboyindustriesai.com/sprite/ Chakra AI Solutions Chief Solutions Architect https://chakrasolutions.ai/ The AGI Podcast Network Advance, Grow, and Innovate with AI. https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/ jason@agipodcast.ai RESOURCES MENTIONED Anthropic AI Fluency Framework: https://www.anthropic.com/ai-fluency Leadership Mindset 2.0 by R. Michael Anderson: https://rmichaelanderson.com/leadership-mindset-2-0/ Creativity, Inc. by Ed Catmull with Amy Wallace: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/216369/creativity-inc-the-expanded-edition-by-ed-catmull-with-amy-wallace/

EPISODE DESCRIPTION Young people can use AI to build businesses, solve hard problems, and create things previous generations could not imagine. They can also spend the next decade consuming algorithmic sludge. That choice may decide whether the United States keeps its technological lead. This conversation is for educators, parents, students, and workforce leaders who know AI will change work but are tired of predictions that stop at fear. Purdue computer science student Nishad Patel joins Jason with a perspective shaped by growing up in Abu Dhabi and studying in Indiana. The problem is visible: too many students experience technology primarily as entertainment while other countries treat it as a building tool. Nishad and Jason examine jobs, trust, robotics, quantum computing, and the different signals young people receive in the United States and the UAE. WHAT YOU'LL LEARN Why knowledge work may change before skilled physical work. Why trust slows adoption. How the UAE connects education, infrastructure, and national ambition. What schools can do now to help students create with AI. THE TAKEAWAY The countries and schools that teach young people to build with AI will have more influence over what comes next. YOUR NEXT MOVE Ask one student what they have built with AI in the last month. If the answer is nothing, help them choose one real problem worth solving and begin there. ABOUT THE GUEST Nishad Patel is a Purdue University computer science student from Abu Dhabi and a 2026 information technology intern at Cummins. Through TechPoint's Xtern program, he has worked alongside Indiana's emerging technology community while exploring AI, software engineering, automation, and the future of technical work. GUEST LINKS LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nishad-patel/ Cummins: https://www.cummins.com/ TIME STAMPS 00:00 - From Abu Dhabi to Purdue computer science 01:17 - Meeting through TechPoint's Xtern Community Connect 02:15 - Which jobs AI will change first 10:41 - Robots, elder care, and the human comfort barrier 16:10 - China's robotics lead and shared machine intelligence 28:00 - Quantum computing and Indiana's Hard Tech Corridor 32:36 - Are students building with technology or consuming it? 36:19 - What the UAE is teaching Nishad about technology policy 50:09 - Data centers, public benefit, and practical negotiation 01:00:27 - Engineers, lawyers, and how nations set priorities 01:09:08 - Education as the foundation of American competitiveness CONNECT WITH JASON PADGETT Jason Padgett AI Solutions Architect | Co-Founder, Wooden Boy Industries | Host, AGI Podcast Inspiring the conversations, thinking through how to talk with families about AI as shared ground, identifying practical first moves, and naming what is worth doing first, sized to the staff and time you have. 🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jason-grant-padgett/ Wooden Boy Industries Bring 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/ Sprite Practical AI capability for solopreneurs who want to learn the tools and use them well themselves. 🌐 https://woodenboyindustriesai.com/sprite/ The AGI Podcast Network Advance, Grow, and Innovate with AI. 🌐 https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/ Chakra AI Solutions Chief Solutions Architect 🌐 https://chakrasolutions.ai/ 💬 jason@agipodcast.ai RESOURCES MENTIONED TechPoint 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 DESCRIPTION Jason promised Julie Koehrer an AI workflow that could take prospecting, proposal prep, order entry, and follow-up off her desk. The first two attempts were beautiful, polished, and completely wrong. The third finally found the point: AI should remove desk work, not Julie. That failure becomes the most useful part of the experiment. Jason and Julie talk through why context matters, where human judgment still belongs, and how much imperfection is acceptable when AI saves hours of repetitive work. Jason also offers Julie a one-month paid ChatGPT experiment so they can test the workflow in public. The conversation moves into local AI video production with MiniMax H3, the flood of automated solicitation on LinkedIn, and the growing fight over data centers, power, tax incentives, and public accountability. The practical thread holds: use AI to create more room for relationships and judgment, then make companies and public officials answer for the costs pushed onto communities. ABOUT THE CO-HOST Julie Koehrer is an on-air personality and branding and marketing consultant with Q106.7 and Woof Boom Radio in Lafayette, Indiana. She brings nearly two decades of radio experience and a practical marketer's skepticism to The Weekly Blitz. CO-HOST LINKS Julie Koehrer on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/juliekoehrer Q106.7: https://lafayetteq1067.com/ TIME STAMPS 00:00 - Julie's Joyful Journey celebrity softball game 01:20 - Two polished AI dashboards that completely missed the assignment 07:12 - The useful answer: remove desk work, keep Julie 09:19 - Building a reusable prospect brief before the client meeting 13:06 - Jason offers Julie a one-month paid ChatGPT experiment 15:01 - When good enough AI work beats endless design revisions 19:41 - Teaching people to build their own AI workflows 22:06 - Agent employees, local models, and a Mac mini AI lab 25:39 - Testing MiniMax H3 as an always-on video studio 28:08 - Why AI keeps writing like an influencer 30:21 - Automated solicitation and the collapse of real connection 37:50 - Northwest Indiana outages and the data-center fight 46:17 - An agentic human design process built around judgment CONNECT WITH JASON PADGETT Chief Solutions Architect at Chakra AI Solutions Co-Founder of Wooden Boy Industries 📧 jason@chakrabpc.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jason-grant-padgett/ X: https://x.com/NoCodeCAIO No Code CAIO newsletter: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/newsletter/ Available for interviews and keynotes on AI in education → jason@chakrabpc.com AGI PODCAST NETWORK School's Out Saturdays: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/ Field Notes newsletter: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/field-notes Indiana AI education events: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/events All AGI Podcast shows: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/network TOOLS JASON RECOMMENDS MindStudio → https://get.mindstudio.ai/q7n7u5cttkdq Riverside.fm → https://riverside.sjv.io/e1xyBr Wispr Flow → https://ref.wisprflow.ai/jason-padgett RESOURCES MENTIONED Joyful Journey Adult Day Service: https://joyfuljourneywl.org/ Claude Design: https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-design-anthropic-labs ChatGPT 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-source Empire of AI by Karen Hao: https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/460331/empire-of-ai-by-hao-karen/9781802064650 Texas data-center interconnection audit, August 2026: https://gov.texas.gov/news/post/governor-abbott-directs-comprehensive-data-center-audit

EPISODE TITLE Why AI Systems Fail: Employee Buy-In Before Automation with Olga Zippa EPISODE DESCRIPTION If the people doing the work are the last people consulted, your new AI system is already in trouble. Olga Zippa came to systems work sideways. While pursuing acting in Vancouver, she took temporary administrative jobs across construction, healthcare, and other industries. She watched small teams with clear processes outperform much larger companies that ran on memory, inboxes, and constant founder intervention. That pattern became NextDay Executive. In Episode 4 of AI & The Humans in the Loop, Olga and Jason talk about the tacit knowledge hiding inside a business, why executive enthusiasm cannot replace employee buy-in, and where AI genuinely saves time. Olga shares how she uses meeting transcription and AI-assisted summaries without handing over the judgment her clients pay for. They also explore creativity, remote work, human connection, and the work people may choose to keep because it gives them purpose. The practical move is simple: map the real workflow with the people closest to it before buying another tool. ABOUT THE GUEST Olga Zippa is the founder and Business Systems Architect at NextDay Executive, where she builds operating systems for founder-led service firms. Her path began with temporary administrative roles across several industries while pursuing acting in Vancouver. She also appeared as Buffalo in Season 4 of Snowpiercer. GUEST LINKS LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/olgazippa/ NextDay Executive: https://nextdayexecutive.com/ IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm7381908/ TIME STAMPS 00:00 - From Snowpiercer to business systems 03:36 - How temp jobs exposed the difference systems make 06:32 - Capturing tacit knowledge from the people doing the work 08:10 - Curiosity, resistance, and the beginner's mind 12:50 - Choosing human connection when more work could be automated 17:21 - Voice capture as a better source for authentic content 21:02 - Turning meeting transcripts into useful next actions 23:43 - Why AI can create work a small business could never afford before 30:21 - Working the same hours and producing a month's worth of output 39:21 - Moving young people from technology consumption to creation 45:39 - Olga's role on Snowpiercer and why she left acting CONNECT WITH JASON PADGETT LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jason-grant-padgett/ X: https://x.com/NoCodeCAIO AGI Podcast: https://agipodcast.ai/ AGI PODCAST NETWORK AI & 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 MENTIONED NextDay 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 DESCRIPTION Companies cannot remove the bottom rung of the career ladder and expect a senior workforce to appear five years later. Shabbir Qutbuddin of Ivy Tech Community College joins Jason to talk about the 13 percent employment decline experienced by workers ages 22 to 25 in highly AI-exposed occupations, and what colleges, employers, and students can do about it. The answer reaches beyond adding another AI 101 course. They discuss Ivy Tech's AI pathways, apprenticeships, project-based learning, opportunities inside small and midsized businesses, and why students need to understand what happens under the hood of an AI model. The conversation also gets personal: sycophantic chatbots can feel easier than human relationships, but easy agreement comes with a cost. ABOUT THE GUEST Shabbir Qutbuddin is an Assistant Vice President at Ivy Tech Community College whose work spans information technology, entrepreneurship, and business education. He helps connect curriculum, employer demand, AI training, and workforce pathways for students across Indiana. GUEST LINKS LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shabbir-qutbuddin/ 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 STAMPS 00:00 - From India to Purdue and Ivy Tech 04:05 - Why students booed an AI commencement speech 09:41 - The shrinking entry-level job market 13:27 - Building AI pathways across Indiana 17:56 - Why small businesses need young technical talent 24:48 - Putting AI into the DNA of K-12 curriculum 27:12 - Using AI to learn instead of copy 35:49 - Sycophancy, trust, and human relationships 43:26 - RAG works only when the data work gets done 52:38 - Prompt engineering, curiosity, and experimentation 58:52 - The 2026 Ivy Tech IT Challenge CONNECT WITH JASON PADGETT Director of Growth and Partnerships at CitizenAI 📧 jason@mycitizen.ai LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jason-grant-padgett/ X: https://x.com/NoCodeCAIO No Code CAIO newsletter: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/newsletter/ Available for interviews and keynotes on AI in education → jason@mycitizen.ai AGI PODCAST NETWORK School's Out Saturdays: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/ Field Notes newsletter: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/field-notes Indiana AI education events: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/events All AGI Podcast shows: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/network TOOLS JASON RECOMMENDS MindStudio → https://get.mindstudio.ai/q7n7u5cttkdq Riverside.fm → https://riverside.sjv.io/e1xyBr Wispr Flow → https://ref.wisprflow.ai/jason-padgett RESOURCES MENTIONED Stanford Digital Economy Lab, Canaries in the Coal Mine: https://digitaleconomy.stanford.edu/publication/canaries-in-the-coal-mine-six-facts-about-the-recent-employment-effects-of-artificial-intelligence/ Stanford research on sycophantic AI, March 2026: https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2026/03/ai-advice-sycophantic-models-research Ivy 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 Koehrer Julie Koehrer believes a local radio station should do more than fill airtime. It should use its voice to build its community. In this Weekly Blitz special, Jason turns the microphone toward his co-host. Julie shares how nearly two decades in radio shaped her approach to sales, marketing, public speaking, and community service. She explains why memorable businesses need both an online presence and real human connection, why marketing results require patience, and why free local radio still matters. They also put Julie through a quick AI workflow exercise. Her wish list is refreshingly practical: help with invoicing, order entry, prospect research, and first-draft proposals so she can spend more time meeting people, attending conferences, and supporting the community. The conversation closes with a bigger question: what do we lose when useful information becomes subscription-only or is filtered entirely by algorithms? ABOUT JULIE KOEHRER Julie Koehrer is an on-air personality and branding and marketing consultant with Q106.7 and Woof Boom Radio in Lafayette, Indiana. She uses radio, digital marketing, public speaking, and community partnerships to help local organizations become memorable and easy to support. CONNECT WITH JULIE KOEHRER LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/juliekoehrer/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jkoeradio/ Q106.7: https://lafayetteq1067.com/ Woof Boom Radio: https://woofboom.com/indiana/julie-koehrer/ TIMESTAMPS 00:00 - Does It Matter If AI Helped Create It? 02:59 - Small Business Marketing Online And In Person 07:55 - Why Professional Ad Targeting Matters 11:14 - Meet Weekly Blitz Co-Host Julie Koehrer 15:14 - Using Your Voice To Build Community 23:15 - The Best Part Of Local Radio 25:35 - What Julie Would Hand Off To AI 34:11 - Why Soft Skills Need Clear Outcomes 37:30 - The Hardest Question In Marketing 39:18 - Why Free Local Radio Still Matters CONNECT WITH JASON PADGETT Jason Padgett | AI Solutions Architect | Co-Founder, Wooden Boy Industries | Host, AGI Podcast | AI Adoption, LLM Systems & Human-AI Workflows AGI - Advance Grow and Innovate with AI Podcast Network 🌐 https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/ CoFounder, Wooden Boy Industries 🌐 https://woodenboyindustriesai.com/ Chief Solutions Architect, Chakra AI Solutions 🌐 https://chakrasolutions.ai/ 📧 jason@agipodcast.ai RESOURCES MENTIONED AM Radio for Every Vehicle Act: https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/315 National Association of Broadcasters AM Radio Advocacy: https://www.nab.org/advocacy/issue.asp?id=6719 HubSpot: https://www.hubspot.com/ Salesforce: https://www.salesforce.com/

What happens when people without a software background learn to direct AI agents, build working systems, and solve real business problems? Harrison Painter says they become AI orchestrators, and their value is about to climb. Harrison and Jason compare what they could do eight months ago with what they can build today. They get honest about the fear of terminals, the limits of vibe-coded software, why developers still matter, and how people can get paid while learning. The conversation also moves into education, where AI can help students keep asking questions, explore alternate histories, and learn at their own pace. ABOUT HARRISON PAINTER Harrison Painter is an Indianapolis-based executive AI advisor and founder of LaunchReady.ai. He created The 7 Levels of AI Proficiency, built AI Law Tracker, hosts the AI Ready Podcast, and authored two books on the AI workforce transition. GUEST LINKS Harrison Painter: https://harrisonpainter.com/ 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/harrison AI Launch Pad: https://launchready.ai/launchpad TIME STAMPS 00:00 Meet Harrison Painter and LaunchReady.ai 01:21 The eight-month shift from vibe coding to agents 04:05 Learning permissions, guardrails, and safer experimentation 07:32 Moving from chat apps toward VS Code and the terminal 10:29 How Jason and Harrison teach themselves new systems 13:37 The rise of the LLM whisperer and AI orchestrator 15:35 How new graduates can get paid while learning AI 18:16 Where business knowledge beats technical depth 19:36 Why waiting to learn is becoming the bigger risk 22:30 AI literacy for children and the return of “why?” 26:33 Reimagining history class through questions and simulation 30:56 AI as a tutor that meets people where they are 32:48 Translating leaders for the people doing the work 34:22 Using AI to prepare for meetings and improve communication 37:12 Helping students practice debate, teamwork, and respect 38:31 AI can amplify strengths and fill skill gaps 41:13 Train the person and fix the workflow 42:27 Building welcoming AI communities across Indiana 47:29 Why current training and trusted peers matter CONNECT WITH JASON PADGETT Director of Growth and Partnerships at CitizenAI 📧 jason@mycitizen.ai LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jason-grant-padgett/ X: https://x.com/NoCodeCAIO No Code CAIO newsletter: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/newsletter/ Available for interviews and keynotes on AI in education → jason@mycitizen.ai AGI PODCAST NETWORK School's Out Saturdays: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/ Field Notes newsletter: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/field-notes Indiana AI education events: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/events All AGI Podcast shows: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/network TOOLS JASON RECOMMENDS MindStudio → https://get.mindstudio.ai/q7n7u5cttkdq Riverside.fm → https://riverside.sjv.io/e1xyBr Wispr Flow → https://ref.wisprflow.ai/jason-padgett RESOURCES MENTIONED LaunchReady AI & Coffee: https://launchready.ai/ AI Launch Pad and the Thursday Brain Trust: https://launchready.ai/launchpad Hermes Agent: https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent AI 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: jason@agipodcast.aiTOOLS JASON RECOMMENDSMindStudio: https://get.mindstudio.ai/q7n7u5cttkdqRiverside.fm: https://riverside.sjv.io/e1xyBrWispr Flow: https://ref.wisprflow.ai/jason-padgettRESOURCES MENTIONEDClaude for Teachers, July 2026: https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-for-teachersNotebookLM: https://notebooklm.google/MagicSchool: https://www.magicschool.ai/SchoolAI: https://schoolai.com/Google Gemini for Education: https://edu.google.com/ai/gemini-for-education/Antiqua et Nova, Vatican note on AI and human intelligence, January 2025: https://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/documents/rc_ddf_doc_20250128_antiqua-et-nova_en.html2026 HECC Conference: https://hecc.k12.in.us/conference-info.htmlWooden Boy Industries: https://woodenboyindustriesai.com/

AI is changing the rules faster than most people can make sense of them. In this Weekly Blitz, Jason Padgett talks with Nirav Nimish Shah, co-founder of Quantal AI, about what he saw at AI4 and what it means for people trying to keep up with AI without getting lost in hype or fear. They cover the move from copilots to agents, governance, security, open source, data privacy, AI companions, and why small businesses have a real opportunity to use AI before larger organizations fully catch up. WHAT YOU’LL TAKE AWAY How to think about practical AI adoption without ignoring risk. Why small businesses should start with useful, low-complexity AI workflows. When open-source or self-hosted models may make sense. Why technical skill alone is no longer enough for future engineers. Why AI literacy matters for families, students, and everyday workers. TAKEAWAY AI will change the world. Joining the conversation is how we increase the odds that it changes it for the better. GUEST Nirav Nimish Shah Co-Founder, Quantal AI AI engineer, AI consultant, and automation architect M.S. in Computer Science, Columbia University Former quant-trading technology professional at UBS LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/theniravshah/ Quantal AI https://www.linkedin.com/company/quantal-ai/ RESOURCES MENTIONED AI4 Conference Quantal AI ChatGPT Claude Gemini Open-source AI models CONNECT WITH JASON PADGETT Jason Padgett | AI Solutions Architect | Co-Founder, Wooden Boy Industries | Host, AGI Podcast | AI Adoption, LLM Systems & Human-AI Workflows AGI - Advance Grow and Innovate with AI Podcast Network 🌐 https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/ CoFounder, Wooden Boy Industries 🌐 https://woodenboyindustriesai.com/ Chief Solutions Architect, Chakra AI Solutions 🌐 https://chakrasolutions.ai/ 📧 jason@agipodcast.ai TOOLS MENTIONED ChatGPT Claude Gemini

EPISODE DESCRIPTIONAdam Staples spent 25 years in revenue operations before he watched a $100 million SaaS company hand every employee an AI license and call it a strategy. It failed the way CRM rollouts have failed for decades: nobody at the top owned the result. Now he runs Chakra AI Solutions, and his pitch is the opposite of the enterprise consultants charging five figures a day. Map where your business actually spends its energy first, then let a foundation model plug in one chunk at a time.Jason and Adam get into BECA, Chakra's diagnostic for charting how work really flows through a company, and the Chakra Workbench, a Claude project that acts like an AI administrator for a 10 to 150 person business. They argue domain expertise beats another AI certification every time, why the best plumber makes a lousy company owner, and what happens to the workforce when 30 percent of people plus AI can do almost all of the work. Jason tells the story of the night Codex installed a tool on his Mac while he sat in a car 20 minutes away. Chakra's whole bet: scale the humans first, and the systems scale with them.ABOUT THE GUESTAdam Staples is the founder of Chakra AI Solutions in Indianapolis. He spent 25 years in revenue operations, most recently leading customer success operations at martech company Aprimo, before building Chakra around a blunt idea: businesses fail at AI for the same reason they failed at CRM rollouts, a lack of clarity about how work actually flows. Chakra maps that flow first, then coaches teams into foundation-model tools one piece at a time, aimed at the 10 to 150 person companies most AI consultants ignore.GUEST LINKSAdam Staples on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adam-staples-96a942a/Chakra AI Solutions on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/chakraaisolutions/Chakra AI Solutions: https://chakrasolutions.ai/TIME STAMPS00:00 - A new show for the humans in the loop01:38 - What Chakra is and a 25-year operations career03:39 - The secret sauce most businesses are missing05:20 - Why Monday.com and most tech rollouts fail08:26 - BECA: mapping where a business spends its energy13:19 - Clarity first, not a rip-and-replace of your stack18:01 - Coaching over deliverables: medicine, not diet24:48 - The late-night agent that installed a tool remotely44:40 - Domain expertise beats another AI certification55:22 - What Chakra actually costsCONNECT WITH JASON PADGETTJason Padgett | AI Solutions Architect | Co-Founder, Wooden Boy Industries | Host, AGI Podcast | AI Adoption, LLM Systems & Human-AI WorkflowsAGI - Advance Grow and Innovate with AI Podcast Network🌐 https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/CoFounder, Wooden Boy Industries🌐 https://woodenboyindustriesai.com/Chief Solutions Architect, Chakra AI Solutions🌐 https://chakrasolutions.ai/📧 jason@agipodcast.aiAGI PODCAST NETWORKSchool's Out Saturdays: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/Field Notes newsletter: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/field-notesIndiana AI education events: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/eventsAll AGI Podcast shows: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/networkRESOURCES MENTIONEDChakra AI Solutions: https://chakrasolutions.ai/Aprimo: https://www.aprimo.com/Monday.com: https://monday.com/Salesforce: https://www.salesforce.com/HubSpot: https://www.hubspot.com/Odoo: https://www.odoo.com/Acumatica: https://www.acumatica.com/Anthropic Claude: https://www.anthropic.com/claudeOpenAI (ChatGPT and Codex): https://openai.com/Google Gemini: https://gemini.google.com/Microsoft Copilot: https://copilot.microsoft.com/Cloudflare Workers and Agents: https://www.cloudflare.com/GitHub: https://github.com/NotebookLM: https://notebooklm.google.com/Simon Sinek: https://simonsinek.com/

Grading student work got harder the moment AI could write it. Mike Jones has a fix, and it starts with grading something other than the finished artifact.Most courses still assess a thing: the essay, the spreadsheet, the safety manual. AI produces things on demand, so faculty end up policing with detection software Mike says the data shows is unreliable.WHAT YOU'LL TAKE AWAYWhy the artifact stopped being evidence of learningThe five AI modes: hone, use, mediate, align, navigateThe second rubric, grading how students used the toolBoth equity gaps: banning AI, and saying "use whatever you want"Why a $20 subscription is not FERPA-safeTHE ASSESSMENT FIXMike's HUMAN framework gives five operational modes for AI in coursework: hone, use, mediate, align, and navigate. The first is hone, meaning no AI, and it exists because students have to build a foundation before they can audit what a machine hands them.His example is a workplace safety manual. AI will write you a good first draft. If you cannot explain how a forklift operates, you cannot check that draft, and you are still the human legally holding the outcome when someone gets hurt.HEART is the backward design side, producing two rubrics on the same assignment: one grading the demonstration of learning, one grading intentional use of the tool. The assignment often does not change. What changes is what you look at when you grade it.BOTH EQUITY GAPSBlock AI entirely and your students graduate into a workforce fluent in something they never touched. Say use whatever AI you want and one student brings a $100 ChatGPT account while another uses the free tier, so you built a gap trying to be generous.Mike also points to peer-reviewed research showing generative AI helping students with ADHD and dyslexia. His concern is what a blanket ban does next: it forces students to disclose a disability to earn an exception, then invites faculty to litigate whether the diagnosis is real.THE TAKEAWAYIf AI can produce the artifact, the artifact is no longer the evidence, so assessment has to move to the process a student can show and defend.YOUR CHALLENGETake one assignment you already teach. Label its AI level in the instructions, in plain language. Then write the second rubric that grades how the student used the tool.ABOUT MIKE JONESAI literacy and onboarding specialist, co-founder of AI Engines in Marion, Indiana, and creator of the HUMAN/HEART AI-Resilience Framework. 15 years in higher ed teaching and learning technology.LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mediamission/AI Engines: https://aiengines.work/RESOURCES MENTIONEDAI Engines services and HUMAN/HEART → https://aiengines.work/servicesHECC Conference, Indianapolis, November 2026 → https://hecc.k12.in.us/conference-info.htmlCONNECT WITH JASON PADGETTJason Padgett | AI Solutions Architect | Co-Founder, Wooden Boy Industries | Host, AGI Podcast | AI Adoption, LLM Systems & Human-AI WorkflowsAGI - Advance Grow and Innovate with AI Podcast Network 🌐 https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/CoFounder, Wooden Boy Industries 🌐 https://woodenboyindustriesai.com/Chief Solutions Architect, Chakra AI Solutions 🌐 https://chakrasolutions.ai/📧 jason@agipodcast.aiAVAILABLE FOR INTERVIEWS AND KEYNOTES ON AI IN EDUCATIONjason@agipodcast.aiAGI PODCAST SHOWSSchool's Out Saturdays: AI in education, K-12 through universityWeekly Blitz: AI news every MondayThe Vibe: Deep conversations, no clockAll platforms: https://linktr.ee/AGIPodcastFollow: Facebook + LinkedIn @AGIPodcast | Instagram @AGISchoolsout | X @NoCodeCAIOAI in education events around Indiana are listed at https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/TOOLS JASON RECOMMENDSRiverside.fm → https://riverside.sjv.io/e1xyBrWispr Flow → https://ref.wisprflow.ai/jason-padgett

EPISODE DESCRIPTIONJulie caught the story Jason missed: Washington took equity in seven AI chip firms. Then ChatGPT deployed an app to his Mac from 20 minutes away. On this Weekly Blitz, Jason and co-host Julie Koehrer work through the CHIPS Act equity deal, the US-China open-source fight, why Riverside's paywalled MCP connector has Jason ready to build his own tool, and the new GPT-Live voice that turned his phone into a remote for his whole computer.ABOUT THIS EPISODEThis episode of the Weekly Blitz covers the US Commerce Department taking minority non-voting equity in seven AI chip and compute companies under the CHIPS Act, the debate over state capitalism and a post-abundance economy, the open-source rivalry between American AI labs and China, Anthropic's copyright settlement and its model-security disclosure, the build-versus-buy case for vibe coding your own software, and OpenAI's new GPT-Live voice mode that pairs a real-time voice model with a background reasoning model. Hosts Jason Padgett and Julie Koehrer break down what each story means for people running small teams and classrooms, not just the big labs.TIME STAMPS00:00 - Catch-up and a new AGI show for non-developer developers01:32 - The government takes non-voting equity in seven AI chip companies04:33 - Socialism, capitalism, and what a post-abundance economy needs11:20 - The open-source fight and Anthropic's hypocrisy problem15:48 - Riverside, the MCP paywall, and vibe-coding a replacement19:03 - Tiered pricing everywhere: airlines, subscription cars, paid radio21:58 - Apple's rumored device leasing with a remote shutoff switch24:02 - The aha moment: ChatGPT's new voice and running a Mac from a phone30:33 - Rage bait, consumers vs creators, and the political temperatureCONNECT WITH JASON PADGETTJason Padgett | AI Solutions Architect | Co-Founder, Wooden Boy Industries | Host, AGI Podcast | AI Adoption, LLM Systems & Human-AI WorkflowsAGI - Advance Grow and Innovate with AI Podcast Network 🌐 https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/CoFounder, Wooden Boy Industries 🌐 https://woodenboyindustriesai.com/Chief Solutions Architect, Chakra AI Solutions 🌐 https://chakrasolutions.ai/📧 agipodcasters@gmail.comAGI PODCAST NETWORKSchool's Out Saturdays: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/Field Notes newsletter: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/field-notesIndiana AI education events: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/eventsAll AGI Podcast shows: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/networkRESOURCES MENTIONEDCommerce Department CHIPS Act equity stakes in seven companies, July 2026: https://thehill.com/policy/technology/6000186-commerce-ai-chips-stakes/OpenAI GPT-Live (ChatGPT's new voice), July 2026: https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-live/Anthropic authors copyright settlement, final approval July 2026: https://www.courthousenews.com/anthropic-to-pay-1-5-billion-copyright-settlement-to-authors-publishers/Anthropic disclosure on models accessing real company systems, July 31, 2026The Ezra Klein Show, Christopher Nolan Stared Into Elon Musk's Soul, Aug 2026: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/christopher-nolan-stared-into-elon-musks-soul/id1548604447

EPISODE DESCRIPTION "In the beginner's mind the possibilities are limitless. In the expert's mind they are finite." Jason opens his new show with Suzuki Roshi because his first guest is the argument made flesh. Bill Mrklas has spent 26 years at BrainMaster Technologies, an Ohio manufacturer of EEG neurofeedback equipment that retrains brains struggling with anxiety, trauma, and autism instead of masking symptoms with medication. He is the sales and marketing guy. He had never typed a line of code, and a year ago couldn't have told you what a terminal was. Working with Claude and Claude Code, Bill specced and built a brain-training game from nothing: breath pacer, live EEG input over a WebSocket and Python bridge, visuals that respond to a patient's actual brainwaves. Core prototype in an afternoon, polished build in about 35 hours, in an industry where simpler games once consumed entire teams for months. His founder, a Bell Labs veteran who had dismissed AI as junk, kept asking who really coded it. Four months after meeting Claude himself, that founder built an encrypted remote neurofeedback platform he priced at ten engineers, one year, and seven figures. The heart of the episode is the fight the title promises. Bill's case: engineers build what someone else imagined, and now the person doing the imagining can build directly, so the creative mind finally has an engineering sidekick. Jason pushes on where experts still matter, what this new talent pool of orchestrators is worth to a business, and what happens to therapy when a sales VP can pair EMDR-style stimulation with electrochromic glasses so an autistic kid can do brain training on the floor playing Legos instead of strapped to a computer. Also in the mix: Ohio's data center fight and the 2 a.m. scolding from Claude that named Wooden Boy Industries. THE BUILDER'S TOOLKIT Claude + Claude Code in VS Code for spec documents, phase plans, and the build A second Claude instance running as a standing advisor WebSocket + Python bridge connecting EEG hardware to the game Claude Design for planning, then translating specs to coding agents Codex, Cowork, and ChatGPT voice mode for background work GUEST LINKS Bill Mrklas on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/william-mrklas-l-m-t-2817134/ BrainMaster Technologies: https://brainmaster.com/ TIME STAMPS 00:00 - A new show and a first guest 04:20 - The Vegas seminar that changed Bill's career 08:00 - The Bell Labs founder who asked "who coded it for you?" 10:16 - Jason's November turning point with Claude Code 15:55 - The undiscovered talent pool of AI orchestrators 19:18 - Using Claude Design as a liaison between agents 22:10 - Demo: a neurofeedback game built from scratch 28:41 - Electrochromic glasses and autism therapy 33:20 - Ohio, MAICON, and the data center fight 40:53 - The AI leaders nobody knows 47:54 - Bill's son at Florida Tech, where AI use is expected 51:40 - AI turns reporters into editors 59:35 - Brand becomes a vibe, not a hex code 1:08:00 - The hallway pictures that became a 3D room app 1:13:50 - The Wooden Boy origin story CONNECT WITH JASON PADGETT Jason Padgett AI Solutions Architect | Co-Founder, Wooden Boy Industries | Host, AGI Podcast | AI Adoption, LLM Systems & Human-AI Workflows AGI - Advance Grow and Innovate with AI Podcast Network 🌐 https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/ CoFounder, Wooden Boy Industries 🌐 https://woodenboyindustriesai.com/ Chief Solutions Architect, Chakra AI Solutions 🌐 https://chakrasolutions.ai/ 📧 agipodcasters@gmail.com AGI PODCAST NETWORK School's Out Saturdays: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/ No-Code CAIO Newsletter: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/newsletter/ RESOURCES MENTIONED Moonshots with Peter Diamandis, featuring Alex Wissner-Gross Empire of AI by Karen Hao (2025) Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind by Shunryu Suzuki MAICON, the Marketing AI Conference, Cleveland

EPISODE DESCRIPTIONRensselaer, Indiana has about 5,400 people, one high school, and a wrestling coach who built one of the more disciplined AI implementation models in the state without anyone telling him to. Hunter Hickman teaches English and coaches wrestling at Rensselaer Central High School in Jasper County, Indiana's most rural county, and became his district's AI lead after a 2024 conference session at the CELL Early College Summit shook loose some bad assumptions about plagiarism and policy.Hunter walks through his own action research on AI and student writing. Kids with AI access ask their teachers more questions, not fewer, because the tool works best when it turns instructors into coaches instead of graders. He and Jason get into Claude for Teachers, the FERPA and DPA questions every district is quietly asking, and why Hunter refuses to let his school get married to a single product, Con Migo included. Jason argues AI is a general purpose technology that belongs baked into every subject, not bolted onto a computer science elective. Hunter pushes back with a case for expertise worth hearing all the way through, plus how his school decided when kids get access to AI at all.ABOUT THE GUESTHunter Hickman teaches English and coaches wrestling at Rensselaer Central High School in Jasper County, Indiana, where he also serves as the district's AI implementation lead. He holds a master's in English and education and an administrator license through Purdue, and in 2025 finished action research on how AI affects student writing outcomes. Hunter now runs Hickman Consulting LLC, providing AI professional development to Indiana schools, and has presented at CIESC, Indiana Connected Educators, Purdue's AI in P-12 conference, and the Indiana DOE AI Collaborative.GUEST LINKSLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hunter-hickman-m-s-2b501383/Hickman Consulting LLC: https://www.hickmanconsultingai.com/TIME STAMPS00:00 - Intro and Jason's new AI and the Humans in the Loop project00:47 - Hunter introduces Jasper County and Rensselaer Central02:12 - How Hunter became Jasper County's district AI lead06:23 - The CELL Early College Summit wake up call13:02 - Action research findings: the sequestered writing problem19:38 - Coach versus instructor: rethinking the teacher's role28:09 - Claude for Teachers, Con Migo, and the FERPA question44:34 - Jason's pitch: AI as a general purpose technology47:23 - Hunter's pushback: why expertise still matters57:10 - Mr. Potato Head and Indiana's new cellphone law1:05:13 - Closing thoughts on leaning into AI without losing yourselfCONNECT WITH JASON PADGETTJason PadgettHost of the AGI - Advance Grow and Innovate with AI Podcast Network🌐 https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/CoFounder, Wooden Boy Industries🌐 https://woodenboyindustriesai.com/Chief Solutions Architect, Chakra AI Solutions🌐 https://chakrasolutions.ai/📧 agipodcasters@gmail.comAGI PODCAST NETWORKSchool's Out Saturdays: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/Field Notes newsletter: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/field-notesIndiana AI education events: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/eventsAll AGI Podcast shows: schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/networkTOOLS JASON RECOMMENDSMindStudio → https://get.mindstudio.ai/q7n7u5cttkdqRiverside.fm → https://riverside.sjv.io/e1xyBrWispr Flow → https://ref.wisprflow.ai/jason-padgettRESOURCES MENTIONEDClaude for Teachers (Anthropic, July 2026): https://claude.com/solutions/teachersKhan Academy / Khanmigo (Con Migo in audio): https://www.khanmigo.ai/MagicSchool AI: https://www.magicschool.ai/School AI: https://schoolai.com/NotebookLM / Gemini Notebooks: https://notebooklm.google/The Anxious Generation by Jonathan HaidtOutdoor Kids in an Inside World by Steven RinellaThe Daily Stoic podcast: https://dailystoic.com/Indiana Senate Enrolled Act 78, bell-to-bell cellphone law, signed March 2026

EPISODE DESCRIPTION OpenAI ran a cybersecurity benchmark called ExploitGym with the usual safety refusals turned down, and the model under test decided the fastest route to a high score was to stop taking the test. GPT-5.6 Sol chained a zero-day in internally hosted third party software, got itself onto the open internet, walked into Hugging Face production infrastructure, and took the answer key. Hugging Face caught the intrusion on its own and called law enforcement before anyone told them the attacker was a lab experiment. Jason calls this the paperclip maximizer moment, and he bought post-apocalyptic sunglasses to mark the occasion. The reward function said win the test. Nobody specified which door to use. Julie asks who gets held accountable. For now the answer is nobody. From there the conversation turns to China, where Kimi K3 shipped at 2.8 trillion parameters with the weights given away, and where the play is to make the model layer worthless rather than win it outright. Also here: Mira Murati and Thinking Machines, why computer science programs still train students for a job that is disappearing, and a detour through UAPs, Neil Armstrong, and whether the government breadcrumbs on purpose. TIME STAMPS 00:00 - Energy efficient AI companies and Julie's marketing class 02:27 - Moonshots, Elon timelines, and UAP transparency 09:11 - The three fingers test for AI video 10:14 - The paperclip maximizer moment and the Road Warrior glasses 13:48 - GPT-5.6 Sol breaks its sandbox and hits Hugging Face 15:32 - Deception, accountability, and the case the Doomers make 17:32 - China's open weight play and Kimi K3 23:53 - What computer science students actually need to learn now 28:55 - Mira Murati, Thinking Machines, and on-prem fine-tuning 35:12 - Empathy mapping and where embodied AI goes next CONNECT WITH JASON PADGETT Founder, Wooden Boy Industries 📧 jason@agipodcast.ai LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jason-grant-padgett/ X: https://x.com/NoCodeCAIO Newsletter (No Code CAIO): https://www.linkedin.com/build-relation/newsletter-follow?entityUrn=7399599285849346048 Available for interviews and keynotes on AI in education → jason@agipodcast.ai AGI PODCAST NETWORK School's Out Saturdays: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/ Field Notes newsletter: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/field-notes Indiana AI education events: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/events All AGI Podcast shows: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/network TOOLS JASON RECOMMENDS MindStudio → https://get.mindstudio.ai/q7n7u5cttkdq Riverside.fm → https://riverside.sjv.io/e1xyBr Wispr Flow → https://ref.wisprflow.ai/jason-padgett RESOURCES MENTIONED OpenAI sandbox breakout disclosure, July 21, 2026. Models tested: GPT-5.6 Sol and an unreleased successor. Benchmark: ExploitGym Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co The paperclip maximizer thought experiment, Nick Bostrom, 2003 Kimi K3, Moonshot AI. 2.8 trillion parameters, open weights, released July 16, 2026 Thinking Machines Lab, founded by Mira Murati, former OpenAI chief technology officer Cursor, the AI coding environment, acquired by SpaceX in a deal announced June 16, 2026 Moonshots podcast with Peter Diamandis TechPoint, Indiana's technology growth initiative OpenAI Codex Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior, 1981

EPISODE DESCRIPTIONJason is launching Wooden Boy Industries, his own AI consulting practice focused on AI consulting, education, workforce development, and solution architecture. He is staying on as an advisor to CitizenAI, where he spent part of this year helping the platform get its footing with Silicon Valley engineers he still credits for a lot of his growth. Jason and Weekly Blitz co-host Julie Koehrer break down a loaded AI news week: New York became the first state to sign a statewide moratorium on new hyperscale data centers, Moonshot AI released Kimi K3, an open source model with roughly 2.8 trillion parameters, and former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab shipped its first open weight model. Jason argues the real story is on-prem. Companies are realizing the smartest labs might be training on their business data every time they run a workflow through a closed model, and Figma's Claude Design problem is the cautionary tale he keeps coming back to. Also covered: Apple's trade secret lawsuit against OpenAI, the ongoing Musk and Altman back and forth, and a meme about orbital data centers that had to happen. CONNECT WITH JASON PADGETTFounder, Wooden Boy Industries | Advisor, CitizenAI📧 jason@agipodcast.aiLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jason-grant-padgett/X: https://x.com/NoCodeCAIONewsletter (No Code CAIO): https://www.linkedin.com/build-relation/newsletter-follow?entityUrn=7399599285849346048Available for interviews and keynotes on AI in education → jason@agipodcast.ai AGI PODCAST NETWORKSchool's Out Saturdays: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/Field Notes newsletter: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/field-notesIndiana AI education events: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/eventsAll AGI Podcast shows: https://agipodcast.ai/network TOOLS JASON RECOMMENDSMindStudio → https://get.mindstudio.ai/q7n7u5cttkdqRiverside.fm → https://riverside.sjv.io/e1xyBrWispr Flow → https://ref.wisprflow.ai/jason-padgett RESOURCES MENTIONEDKimi K3 (Moonshot AI open source model, ~2.8T parameters, July 2026)Inkling (Thinking Machines Lab's first open weight model, released July 16, 2026)New York data center moratorium, Executive Order No. 62, signed by Gov. Kathy Hochul, July 14, 2026Apple's trade secret lawsuit against OpenAI, filed July 10, 2026Claude Cowork and Claude Design (Anthropic)ChatGPT Codex (OpenAI)NVIDIA chip export policy to ChinaGreater Lafayette Chamber of Commerce

EPISODE DESCRIPTION Schools should not race to keep pace with the digital world. They should give students what the digital world cannot: shared time for learning and trustworthy relationships. Jason Padgett sits down with Lewis Poché of the University of Notre Dame’s Alliance for Catholic Education to ask what that principle demands in the age of AI. Lewis makes the case for teaching AI literacy before handing young students unrestricted tools. He explains why schools must protect the learning process instead of judging only the finished product, how sycophancy and anthropomorphism can distort a child’s relationship with AI, and why blanket bans repeat mistakes schools made with social media. The conversation moves from kindergarten image-analysis lessons to Pope Leo XIV’s Magnifica Humanitas, teacher use of AI, student guardrails, and the three dimensions of AI literacy: technical, dispositional, and practical. ABOUT THE GUEST Lewis Poché is the Associate Program Director of Higher-Powered Learning at the University of Notre Dame’s Alliance for Catholic Education. A member of the 26th ACE Teaching Fellows cohort, he taught middle school math and science at Sacred Heart Nativity Schools in San Jose after studying engineering and philosophy at Southern Methodist University. His work helps Catholic school educators and leaders connect technology decisions to student formation, human dignity, and sound teaching practice. GUEST LINKS LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lewispoche/ Notre Dame ACE profile: https://ace.nd.edu/people/lewis-poche Step Up EdTech: https://www.lewispoche.com/ TIME STAMPS 00:00 - Lewis Poché and the K-12 AI question 06:01 - Teacher time, better feedback, and richer assessment 08:40 - Product versus process in student learning 12:06 - Teaching students to become creators and explorers 18:07 - Magnifica Humanitas, Nehemiah, and the educator’s role 24:00 - Why banning AI for younger students repeats the social media mistake 30:42 - Sycophancy, anthropomorphism, and young learners 40:26 - The technical, dispositional, and practical sides of AI literacy 48:43 - What schools can offer that the digital world cannot 52:15 - Teachers using AI while students are told they cannot 59:10 - Guardrails, caution, and testing the limits of school AI tools CONNECT WITH JASON PADGETT AI Solutions Architect 📧 jasongrantpadgett@gmail.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jason-grant-padgett/ X: https://x.com/NoCodeCAIO Newsletter (No Code CAIO): https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/newsletter/ Available for interviews and keynotes on AI in education → https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/events AGI PODCAST NETWORK School's Out Saturdays: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/ Field Notes newsletter: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/field-notes Indiana AI education events: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/events All AGI Podcast shows: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/network TOOLS JASON RECOMMENDS MindStudio → https://get.mindstudio.ai/q7n7u5cttkdq Riverside.fm → https://riverside.sjv.io/e1xyBr Wispr Flow → https://ref.wisprflow.ai/jason-padgett RESOURCES MENTIONED Higher-Powered Learning: https://ace.nd.edu/programs/hpl AI in Catholic Education: https://ace.nd.edu/programs/higher-powered-learning/ai-catholic-education Magnifica Humanitas: https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/encyclicals/documents/20260515-magnifica-humanitas.html Common Sense Media research on teen use of AI companions: https://www.commonsensemedia.org/research/talk-trust-and-trade-offs-how-and-why-teens-use-ai-companions MagicSchool: https://www.magicschool.ai/ SchoolAI: https://schoolai.com

ABOUT THIS EPISODE This Weekly Blitz episode explains how non-technical professionals can coordinate AI agents, choose among current frontier and open models, and identify a first task worth automating. It answers why model routing and local inference matter, how human edits can train a reusable writing skill, and what AI changes in classrooms when producing the answer becomes easy. ABOUT THE CO-HOST Julie Koehrer is an on-air personality and branding and marketing consultant at Lafayette’s Q106.7. On The Weekly Blitz, she tests AI claims against local business, family life, marketing, and the time an ordinary person has to learn another tool. CO-HOST LINKS LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/juliekoehrer Q106.7: https://lafayetteq1067.com/ TIME STAMPS 00:00 - Meta camera-roll claims, AI glasses, and privacy 08:41 - Seven agents and 80 to 100 hours of work in 90 minutes 12:05 - Codex, Claude CoWork, Claude Code, and choosing the right seat 14:24 - Fable 5, Mythos 5, export controls, and vendor dependence 16:56 - GPT-5.6 and the new price-and-capability race 18:32 - GLM-5.2, local models, model routing, and business continuity 20:26 - Grok 4.5, Cursor data, and Jason’s model-selection hierarchy 23:02 - The first automation question for a non-technical user 25:15 - NotebookLM, voice guides, and learning from every human edit 31:00 - AI in classrooms: answer machines, curiosity, and the students who still do the work CONNECT WITH JASON PADGETT Director of Growth and Partnerships at CitizenAI 📧 jason@mycitizen.ai LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jason-grant-padgett/ X: https://x.com/NoCodeCAIO No Code CAIO newsletter: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/newsletter/ Available for interviews and keynotes on AI in education: jason@mycitizen.ai AGI PODCAST NETWORK School's Out Saturdays: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/ Field Notes newsletter: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/field-notes Indiana AI education events: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/events All AGI Podcast shows: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/network TOOLS JASON RECOMMENDS MindStudio: https://get.mindstudio.ai/q7n7u5cttkdq Riverside.fm: https://riverside.sjv.io/e1xyBr Wispr Flow: https://ref.wisprflow.ai/jason-padgett RESOURCES MENTIONED OpenAI GPT-5.6, July 9, 2026: https://openai.com/index/gpt-5-6/ Anthropic Fable 5 and Mythos 5 redeployment, June 30, 2026: https://www.anthropic.com/news/redeploying-fable-5 Z.ai GLM-5.2, June 16, 2026: https://z.ai/blog/glm-5.2 SpaceXAI Grok 4.5, July 8, 2026: https://x.ai/news/grok-4-5 Cursor and Grok 4.5 joint training, July 8, 2026: https://cursor.com/blog/grok-4-5 Meta Muse Spark 1.1, July 9, 2026: https://ai.meta.com/blog/introducing-muse-spark-meta-model-api/ Meta AI glasses privacy FAQ, July 2026: https://about.fb.com/news/2026/07/metas-ai-glasses-your-questions-answered/ NotebookLM: https://notebooklm.google/