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AGI Podcast — Advance, Grow, Innovate with AI For people who got stuck making AI work and educators preparing students for what's next. Our mission is to cut through AI hype with practical insights for workforce development, education, and small to medium businesses → where AI implementation happens in the trenches, not the headlines. 3 shows, 1 mission: *Saturdays: School's Out - Educators and students preparing for an AI-driven future schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/ Mondays: The Weekly Blitz - AI news recaps with cohost Julie Koehrer Monthly: The Vibe - Long-form deep dive conversations

  1. Scouting's New AI Merit Badge with Sagamore Council's Bryon Haverstick

    23h ago

    Scouting's New AI Merit Badge with Sagamore Council's Bryon Haverstick

    EPISODE DESCRIPTION Scouting America rolled out an AI merit badge in fall 2025, and Bryon Haverstick is about to put it in front of around 30 kids at the University of Scouting at Purdue on December 5. Bryon runs scouting across 14 counties in north central Indiana for the Sagamore Council, and the event has grown into the largest University of Scouting in the country, close to 3,000 people from 26 states last year. Jason teaches one of the AI sessions, Michael Witt teaches another, and a Purdue professor runs a third. The two get into what the badge covers: key terminology, where AI shows up in everyday life and work, deepfakes and how to spot them, ethics, and a project where scouts design and teach a lesson of their own. They talk about why scouting's two-deep leadership rule maps cleanly onto keeping kids safe with AI, why Bryon thinks the social media mistake was going hands-off, and how he built a council marketing plan in 30 minutes that would have cost 45 to 60 thousand dollars to hire out. Jason calls his shot too: give kids a beginner's mind and they will show the adults things these machines can do that nobody expected. ABOUT THE GUEST Bryon Haverstick, CNP, is the assistant scout executive and chief operating officer of the Sagamore Council of Scouting America, covering 14 counties across north central Indiana from the Greater Lafayette area. A St. Louis native and Lindenwood University graduate, he has led council operations since 2017 and built the council's University of Scouting at Purdue into the largest single-day youth event on campus and the largest event of its kind in the country. GUEST LINKS LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bryon-haverstick-cnp-1465188/ Sagamore Council: https://www.sagamorecouncil.org/ University of Scouting at Purdue, December 4-6, 2026: https://scoutingevent.com/162-100441 TIME STAMPS 00:00 - The Sagamore Council and University of Scouting at Purdue 02:32 - Scouting's new AI merit badge and its first year 05:02 - The eight requirements, from key terms to deepfakes to careers 06:22 - Sycophancy, anthropomorphism, and what kids need under the hood 07:51 - Catching scams with Perplexity and a $350 fake invoice 11:04 - Why quality instructors matter more than credentials 17:24 - Soft skills, collaboration, and a post-event virtual meetup 22:19 - Social media's misstep and going hands-on with AI 27:03 - Two-deep leadership applied to digital and AI safety 31:30 - Consumers versus creators and the China comparison 40:42 - A council marketing plan built in 30 minutes with ChatGPT 42:35 - Podcasting on the cheap and a beginner's mind for kids CONNECT WITH JASON PADGETT Director of Growth and Partnerships at CitizenAI 📧 jason@mycitizen.ai LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jason-grant-padgett/ X: https://x.com/NoCodeCAIO Newsletter (No Code CAIO): https://www.linkedin.com/build-relation/newsletter-follow?entityUrn=7399599285849346048 Available for interviews and keynotes on AI in education -> jason@mycitizen.ai AGI PODCAST NETWORK School's Out Saturdays: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/ Field Notes newsletter: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/field-notes Indiana AI education events: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/events All AGI Podcast shows: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/network TOOLS JASON RECOMMENDS MindStudio -> https://get.mindstudio.ai/q7n7u5cttkdq Riverside.fm -> https://riverside.sjv.io/e1xyBr Wispr Flow -> https://ref.wisprflow.ai/jason-padgett RESOURCES MENTIONED Artificial Intelligence merit badge, Scouting America: https://www.scouting.org/merit-badges/artificial-intelligence/ University of Scouting at Purdue, December 4-6, 2026: https://scoutingevent.com/162-100441 Perplexity: https://www.perplexity.ai/ NotebookLM: https://notebooklm.google.com/ ChatGPT: https://chatgpt.com/

    52 min

  2. 5d ago

    Agentic AI vs Chatbots, Plus SK Hynix and Indiana's Data Center Costs

    EPISODE DESCRIPTION Everybody throws around "agentic AI" like it means the same thing as the chatbot they have used since 2022. It does not, and Jason walks Julie through exactly where the line sits. A chat interface answers your question. An agent goes off and does the work. Jason's own setup pulls a week of voice memos out of NotebookLM, drafts the No Code CAIO and Field Notes newsletters, pushes them to GitHub, and ships them to Cloudflare while he barely reviews a thing. Then it turns local. SK Hynix is putting a 3.87 billion dollar chip-packaging plant in West Lafayette, residents have a lawsuit going over transparency, and Indiana keeps handing billion-dollar companies decades of zero sales tax just to show up. Jason and Julie get into the part nobody says out loud: golf courses use five times the water data centers do, the California almond industry dwarfs both, and we the people keep paying the electricity bill while big tech hands out a hundred million for overseas social programs and calls it generosity. Plus Jason's read on Bernie Sanders wanting the government to take a 50 percent equity stake in OpenAI, Anthropic, and the rest, and why he thinks that one backfires. TIME STAMPS 00:00 - Chat interface vs agentic AI and why everyone confuses them 01:11 - Stochastic parrots, reasoning models, and the strawberry problem 04:30 - Why agents were too risky before the models got reliable 06:08 - From internet search to custom GPTs to true agents 07:43 - Jason's agentic newsletter workflow with NotebookLM and Cloudflare 11:42 - Inference costs, the five Claude models, and LLM routers 15:59 - Does digital marketing run on the same data centers as agents 18:30 - Golf courses, almonds, and where the media aims the spotlight 20:39 - Data center water use and the case for nuclear, solar, and wind 22:03 - SK Hynix, the transparency lawsuit, and protecting homeowners 24:54 - Public AI education, lifetime learning, and Bernie's equity plan 30:30 - AI, democracy, and whether we still need representatives CONNECT WITH JASON PADGETT Director of Growth and Partnerships at CitizenAI 📧 jason@mycitizen.ai LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jason-grant-padgett/ X: https://x.com/NoCodeCAIO Newsletter (No Code CAIO): https://www.linkedin.com/build-relation/newsletter-follow?entityUrn=7399599285849346048 Available for interviews and keynotes on AI in education -> jason@mycitizen.ai AGI PODCAST NETWORK School's Out Saturdays: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/ Field Notes newsletter: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/field-notes Indiana AI education events: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/events All AGI Podcast shows: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/network TOOLS JASON RECOMMENDS MindStudio -> https://get.mindstudio.ai/q7n7u5cttkdq Riverside.fm -> https://riverside.sjv.io/e1xyBr Wispr Flow -> https://ref.wisprflow.ai/jason-padgett RESOURCES MENTIONED SK Hynix West Lafayette advanced packaging plant: https://news.skhynix.com/sk-hynix-signs-investment-agreement-of-advanced-chip-packaging-with-indiana/ Karen Hao, Empire of AI: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/743569/empire-of-ai-by-karen-hao/ Bernie Sanders, American AI Sovereign Wealth Fund Act, June 2026: https://thehill.com/policy/technology/5906140-sanders-ai-ownership-wealth/ AI customer service chatbot liability, Air Canada tribunal ruling, February 2024 NotebookLM: https://notebooklm.google.com/ Perplexity: https://www.perplexity.ai/

    33 min
  3. You Can't Shape What You Won't Use: Anne Leftwich on AI at Indiana University

    Jun 6

    You Can't Shape What You Won't Use: Anne Leftwich on AI at Indiana University

    EPISODE DESCRIPTIONAnne Leftwich runs learning technologies for all of Indiana University, and her message to AI holdouts is blunt: you can't shape what you won't use. Refuse to touch the tools and you forfeit your seat in the conversation about how they get used in your classroom and your kid's bedroom. In this episode she walks through how IU earned the AI Transformation Award at TechPoint's 2026 Mira Awards, why President Pam Whitten pushed for a GenAI 101 course that takes students, faculty, and staff from their first prompt all the way to building an AI agent, and what she learned watching her fifth graders train a chatbot and discover algorithmic bias without any adult pointing it out. We also get into the Lilly Endowment AI implementation grant, why she calls AI a Trojan horse for sneaking good pedagogy back into education, why banning tools in K-12 fails the same way abstinence-only everything fails, and her friend Brad Wheeler's math on the pace of change: what used to take a year now happens in 45 days. ABOUT THE GUESTAnne Leftwich is the Associate Vice President for Learning Technologies at Indiana University, where she reports directly to the CIO and helps lead AI strategy across every IU campus. She holds the Barbara B. Jacobs Chair in Education and Technology as a professor of Instructional Systems Technology in the IU School of Education, with over 20 years of research on K-12 technology adoption, computer science education, and AI education. Her NSF-funded PrimaryAI curriculum teaches artificial intelligence to students in grades 3 through 5 through life science. GUEST LINKSLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anne-leftwich-9b52646/Indiana University profile: https://uits.iu.edu/about/leadership/aleftwic.html TIME STAMPS00:00 - Anne's role at IU and the Mira AI Transformation Award03:42 - Why students resist AI07:35 - You can't shape what you won't use12:08 - Lilly Endowment grant and IU's four work streams14:48 - NotebookLM, Claude tutors, and rethinking the lecture20:53 - Fifth graders discover chatbot bias25:08 - Why banning AI in K-12 backfires31:28 - Sycophancy, AI Barbie, and teaching what's under the hood39:54 - Soft skills and how to measure critical thinking49:42 - Rapid fire: org charts, philosophy jobs, robotics, the singularity CONNECT WITH JASON PADGETTDirector of Growth and Partnerships at CitizenAI📧 jason@mycitizen.aiLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jason-grant-padgett/X: https://x.com/NoCodeCAIONewsletter (No Code CAIO): https://www.linkedin.com/build-relation/newsletter-follow?entityUrn=7399599285849346048Available for interviews and keynotes on AI in education → jason@mycitizen.ai AGI PODCAST NETWORKSchool's Out Saturdays: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/Field Notes newsletter: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/field-notesIndiana AI education events: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/eventsAll AGI Podcast shows: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/network TOOLS JASON RECOMMENDSMindStudio → https://get.mindstudio.ai/q7n7u5cttkdqRiverside.fm → https://riverside.sjv.io/e1xyBrWispr Flow → https://ref.wisprflow.ai/jason-padgett RESOURCES MENTIONEDGenAI 101, IU's free course now open worldwide: https://expand.iu.edu/browse/learningtech/gen-ai/courses/genai-101TechPoint 2026 Mira Awards: https://techpoint.org/2026-mira-awards-winners-indiana-techpoint/PrimaryAI, NSF-funded elementary AI curriculum: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1934153Google NotebookLM: https://notebooklm.google.com/Magic School AI: https://www.magicschool.ai/SchoolAI: https://schoolai.com/Lilly Endowment: https://lillyendowment.org/

    1h 2m

  4. Jun 1

    Pope Leo's Magnifica Humanitas, Anthropic at the Vatican, and the God Complex

    EPISODE DESCRIPTIONPope Leo XIV dropped roughly 43,000 words on AI in his first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, and Anthropic's co-founder sat at the Vatican to mark the moment. Jason and Julie work through what the Pope got right, the pragmatic warnings about power concentration and worker displacement, and where the document jumps ahead of the actual conversation by debating AI rights before we've even reckoned with what social media did to kids. Along the way: Julie's mom is dealing with delirium in a nursing facility, and a beeping air mattress becomes a perfect case for ambient AI that explains itself instead of just making noise. UnitedHealth is now running AI bot calls into nursing home rooms, refusing to admit it's a bot even when asked directly. Plus the case for family safe words in the deepfake era, voice-based prompt engineering as a side hustle waiting to happen, predatory subscription traps from Hulu to Apple iCloud, and why tech founders like Musk, Altman, and Amodei might be quietly building toward a god complex. TIME STAMPS00:00 - AI in elder care and Julie's mom's delirium02:47 - Deepfake safe words for vulnerable family members06:10 - UnitedHealth's AI bot calls into nursing rooms10:43 - Voice-based prompt engineering as a business opportunity14:21 - Predatory subscription traps and AI cleanup tools we wish existed22:38 - Platform strategy: where AI buyers actually live online24:43 - Pope Leo's Magnifica Humanitas and Anthropic at the Vatican27:09 - Where the encyclical jumps ahead and where it lands32:00 - The God complex problem in Silicon Valley35:11 - Demis Hassabis, neurobiology, and where religion comes in CONNECT WITH JASON PADGETTDirector of Growth and Partnerships at CitizenAI📧 jason@mycitizen.aiLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jason-grant-padgett/X: https://x.com/NoCodeCAIONewsletter (No Code CAIO): https://www.linkedin.com/build-relation/newsletter-follow?entityUrn=7399599285849346048Available for interviews and keynotes on AI in education → jason@mycitizen.ai AGI PODCAST NETWORKSchool's Out Saturdays: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/Field Notes newsletter: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/field-notesIndiana AI education events: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/eventsAll AGI Podcast shows: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/network TOOLS JASON RECOMMENDSMindStudio → https://get.mindstudio.ai/q7n7u5cttkdqRiverside.fm → https://riverside.sjv.io/e1xyBrWispr Flow → https://ref.wisprflow.ai/jason-padgett RESOURCES MENTIONEDPope Leo XIV's encyclical Magnifica Humanitas, released May 25, 2026: https://www.vatican.vaAnthropic: https://www.anthropic.comClaude: https://claude.aiNotebookLM: https://notebooklm.google.comDemis Hassabis, co-founder of Google DeepMindUnitedHealth Group: https://www.unitedhealthgroup.com

    39 min
  5. Student-Led AI in Schools: Richmond Tech Team on MagicSchool, AI Literacy & Future Jobs

    May 30

    Student-Led AI in Schools: Richmond Tech Team on MagicSchool, AI Literacy & Future Jobs

    Jeremy Hill handed his Richmond High School students MagicSchool and told them to break it. They couldn't, and that two-week red-team is why teachers across the district trusted the tool enough to let students use it. Hill, MagicSchool's 2025 AI Educator of the Year, joins Jason with two of his tech team members, high school junior Sophia Hill and Wittenberg University sophomore Maren Bolser, for a conversation about what AI in school looks like when students run the show. They get into why university crowds booed AI at graduations this spring, the literacy gap forming before AI has even turned three, and the line between using AI as a thought partner and an answer vending machine. Maren talks about using MagicSchool to work around a learning disability. The group debates the Alpha School model, the bet on Ivy Tech over four-year degrees, and whether Demis Hassabis is right that we're standing in the foothills of the singularity. Hill's closing argument: give the problems to the kids and let them spread the solution. ABOUT THE GUESTS Jeremy Hill is an eLearning specialist and Tech Team facilitator at Richmond Community Schools in Indiana, and MagicSchool's 2025 AI Educator of the Year. For ten years he has run a student-led model where the Richmond High School Tech Team pilots tools, leads professional development, and trains teachers across the district. Sophia Hill is a Richmond High School student heading into her junior year and a member of the Tech Team's presentation group. Maren Bolser is a former Richmond Tech Team member now entering her sophomore year at Wittenberg University in Springfield, Ohio. GUEST LINKS Jeremy Hill: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeremy-hill-0a3a117b/ Richmond Community Schools: https://www.linkedin.com/company/richmond-community-schools/ TIME STAMPS 00:00 - Meet Jeremy Hill and the Richmond Tech Team 01:11 - Ten years in, and the MagicSchool Educator of the Year award 02:44 - How students red-teamed MagicSchool before the launch 04:30 - Why college crowds booed AI at graduation this spring 06:00 - The literacy gap forming before AI has turned three 13:59 - What is the point of K-12 when AI can answer anything 20:55 - Who gets the productivity gains, a shorter week or a bigger paycheck 24:48 - The Alpha School model and the equity question 26:40 - Thought partner vs answer machine, and AI with a learning disability 39:22 - Four-year degrees vs micro-credentials and the Ivy Tech bet 49:19 - Demis Hassabis, the singularity, and the five-year question 53:54 - Closing messages: give the problems to the kids CONNECT WITH JASON PADGETT Director of Growth and Partnerships at CitizenAI 📧 jason@mycitizen.ai LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jason-grant-padgett/ X: https://x.com/NoCodeCAIO Newsletter (No Code CAIO): https://www.linkedin.com/build-relation/newsletter-follow?entityUrn=7399599285849346048 Available for interviews and keynotes on AI in education → jason@mycitizen.ai AGI PODCAST NETWORK School's Out Saturdays: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/ Field Notes newsletter: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/field-notes Indiana AI education events: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/events All AGI Podcast shows: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/network TOOLS JASON RECOMMENDS MindStudio → https://get.mindstudio.ai/q7n7u5cttkdq Riverside.fm → https://riverside.sjv.io/e1xyBr Wispr Flow → https://ref.wisprflow.ai/jason-padgett RESOURCES MENTIONED Richmond Tech Team on the Exceptional Educators Podcast: https://exceptionaleducatorspodcast.transistor.fm/episodes/ai-visionaries-richmond-high-schools-tech-team-students-on-ai-shaping-edtech-and-responsible-tech-use MagicSchool: https://www.magicschool.ai/ SchoolAI: https://schoolai.com/ Brisk Teaching: https://www.briskteaching.com/ NotebookLM: https://notebooklm.google.com/ Alpha School: https://alpha.school/ Ivy Tech: https://www.ivytech.edu/ Ditch That Textbook (Matt Miller): https://ditchthattextbook.com/ The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt

    57 min
  6. AI Booed at Graduations, Musk Loses OpenAI Trial, Karpathy to Anthropic

    May 25

    AI Booed at Graduations, Musk Loses OpenAI Trial, Karpathy to Anthropic

    EPISODE DESCRIPTIONThree commencement speakers got booed this month for mentioning AI, and the reactions say something real. Eric Schmidt got drowned out at Arizona. Gloria Caulfield couldn't finish a sentence at UCF. Scott Borchetta told Middle Tennessee State students to "deal with it" and got the response you'd expect from arts and media graduates who just watched their career field get disrupted. Jason argues the fear is partly media-manufactured rage bait, but it lands on real anxiety about jobs and what happens when none of this trickles down. The week's news moved fast. A federal jury took less than two hours to throw out Musk's entire lawsuit against OpenAI, ruling every claim was filed outside the three-year statute of limitations. The key: texts and emails from Altman and Brockman in 2018 notifying Musk that a for-profit shift was coming. Demis Hassabis closed Google IO by telling the world we're at the foothills of the singularity, which made Sundar Pichai's job very complicated. SpaceX filed its S-1 on May 20 targeting a potential $2 trillion valuation. And Andrej Karpathy, who coined "vibe coding," announced he's joining Anthropic's pre-training team. Julie also shares how she used Gemini to research her mother's delirium and sepsis in real time, arriving at appointments with sourced material from the Cleveland Clinic, Mayo Clinic, and NIH. The medical system missed her mom's kidney stones for seven months. Having that research ready changed the dynamic with medical staff entirely. That's the use case that makes all of this worth talking about. TIMESTAMPS00:01 - Memorial Day intro and the Indy 50001:42 - Three commencement speakers, three rounds of boos04:30 - Rage baiting, Gen Alpha AI sabotage stats, and Richmond High's red team09:14 - Local radio as a model for community-first AI coverage10:57 - Google IO: Demis Hassabis says we're at the foothills of the singularity13:33 - UFOs, close encounters, and a Japanese physicist on Dwarkesh15:41 - AlphaFold, longevity science, and Jason's health recalculation18:11 - Gen Z vs millennials: disruption doesn't always mean destruction20:22 - Three AI agents running in the other room21:10 - Julie uses Gemini to research her mom's delirium and sepsis25:18 - AI outdiagnosing doctors26:34 - Elon loses the OpenAI trial: statute of limitations explained27:50 - SpaceX files for potentially the largest IPO in US history27:52 - Karpathy joins Anthropic, Anthropic nears first profitable quarter29:06 - Zuckerberg's keyboard monitors and what that signals about Meta31:27 - The trickle-down question nobody in AI is answering CONNECT WITH JASON PADGETTDirector of Growth and Partnerships at CitizenAI📧 jason@mycitizen.aiLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jason-grant-padgett/X: https://x.com/NoCodeCAIONewsletter (No Code CAIO): https://www.linkedin.com/build-relation/newsletter-follow?entityUrn=7399599285849346048Available for interviews and keynotes on AI in education → jason@mycitizen.ai AGI PODCAST NETWORKSchool's Out Saturdays: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/Field Notes newsletter: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/field-notesIndiana AI education events: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/eventsAll AGI Podcast shows: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/network TOOLS JASON RECOMMENDSMindStudio → https://get.mindstudio.ai/q7n7u5cttkdqRiverside.fm → https://riverside.sjv.io/e1xyBrWispr Flow → https://ref.wisprflow.ai/jason-padgett RESOURCES MENTIONEDGoogle IO 2026: https://io.google/2026/Magic School AI: https://www.magicschool.ai/Richmond Community School Corporation: https://www.richmondk12.net/Dwarkesh Podcast: https://www.dwarkeshpatel.com/Cleveland Clinic: https://my.clevelandclinic.org/Mayo Clinic: https://www.mayoclinic.org/National Institutes of Health: https://www.nih.gov/SpaceX S-1 filing (May 20, 2026): Nasdaq ticker SPCX

    36 min
  7. AI Jobs for CS Grads in 2026: Why Startups Beat Big Tech

    May 23

    AI Jobs for CS Grads in 2026: Why Startups Beat Big Tech

    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📧 jason@mycitizen.aiLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jason-grant-padgett/X: https://x.com/NoCodeCAIONewsletter (No Code CAIO): https://www.linkedin.com/build-relation/newsletter-follow?entityUrn=7399599285849346048 Available for interviews and keynotes on AI in education → jason@mycitizen.ai AGI Podcast network:School's Out Saturdays: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/Field Notes newsletter: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/field-notesIndiana AI education events: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/eventsAll shows: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/network Tools Jason recommends:MindStudio → https://get.mindstudio.ai/q7n7u5cttkdqRiverside.fm → https://riverside.sjv.io/e1xyBrWispr Flow → https://ref.wisprflow.ai/jason-padgett

    1h 17m

  8. May 18

    AI, UAPs, and the Musk vs. Altman Trial: What's Actually at Stake in 2026

    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 -> jason@mycitizen.ai Resources mentioned:OpenAI -> https://openai.comAnthropic -> https://anthropic.comxAI -> https://x.aiNvidia -> https://nvidia.comHuawei -> https://huawei.comTSMC -> https://tsmc.comNotebookLM -> https://notebooklm.google.comJeff Townsend on the Vibe (China tech deep dive) -> https://youtu.be/8d-eySsCng8MindStudio -> https://get.mindstudio.ai/q7n7u5cttkdqRiverside.fm -> https://riverside.sjv.io/e1xyBrWispr Flow -> https://ref.wisprflow.ai/jason-padgett School's Out Saturdays: https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/AGI Podcast (all shows): https://linktr.ee/AGIPodcast

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AGI Podcast — Advance, Grow, Innovate with AI For people who got stuck making AI work and educators preparing students for what's next. Our mission is to cut through AI hype with practical insights for workforce development, education, and small to medium businesses → where AI implementation happens in the trenches, not the headlines. 3 shows, 1 mission: *Saturdays: School's Out - Educators and students preparing for an AI-driven future schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/ Mondays: The Weekly Blitz - AI news recaps with cohost Julie Koehrer Monthly: The Vibe - Long-form deep dive conversations

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