AGI Podcast: Advance, Grow, Innovate with AI For people making AI work and educators preparing students for what's next. Practical conversations about workforce development, education, and small to medium businesses. School's Out Saturdays: Educators and students preparing for an AI-driven future. The Weekly Blitz: AI news recaps with cohost Julie Koehrer. AI & the Humans in the Loop: Biweekly conversations with people learning to build useful software and systems with AI. schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/
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Sep 28, 2026 · 43:54
What Are We Racing To? AI Assistants, Privacy, and Buying Back Time | The Weekly BlitzJulie asks the question that cuts through most AI productivity pitches: what are we racing…
Sep 27, 2026 · 1:00:36
AI can take work off your plate, but how do you decide what to trust it with, and what happens to people whose work changes? Jason Padgett and Bryan Barnhill talk through real…
Sep 26, 2026 · 1:09:34
What skills will help students find their footing when AI changes the work waiting for them? Linda Calvin joins Jason Padgett to talk about critical thinking, real relationships,…
Sep 21, 2026 · 39:11
AI should take work off your plate. So why does choosing models, checking results and keeping up sometimes feel like another job? Jason Padgett is joined by guest co-host Bryan…
Sep 20, 2026 · 1:08:57
AI policy keeps getting written like a rulebook for a system that behaves more like a living network. In this episode, Jason Padgett and Hunter Hickman ask the harder question:…
Sep 19, 2026 · 52:37
What should a high school sophomore prepare for when the tools, jobs and rules keep changing? Toni Holcombe's answer is simple: there is no spoon. The future has not already been…
Sep 18, 2026 · 32:13
She did not come from a traditional tech background. Now Angie Carel is helping Fort Wayne learn, question and build with AI. For the sixth and final interview of the 2026…
Sep 18, 2026 · 29:36
Jenna Cooper's first memorable computer lab was a gutted school bus filled with computers. Students walked across the parking lot, climbed aboard and learned Mavis Beacon typing…
Sep 15, 2026 · 23:50
DESCRIPTION What if the part of you that does not fit the old picture of a technology leader is exactly what the room needs? For Episode 4 of 2026 Indiana Women in Tech Week,…
Sep 15, 2026 · 20:02
DESCRIPTION What happens when you put an AI model on top of a pile of files nobody has cleaned up? Toni Holcombe has a name for one version of that mess: a data swamp. And she…
Sep 14, 2026 · 40:33
AI risk stories are getting louder, regulation proposals are getting more serious, and most people still have a workday to finish. In this Indiana Women IN Tech Week special,…
Sep 14, 2026 · 1:36:01
AI can now write code, call tools, coordinate other agents, and keep working long after a single chat ends. Brent Rager and Jason Padgett trace what that shift means for…
Sep 14, 2026 · 46:04
Women in Tech, Mentorship and Practical AI with Shaneeka Abram Getting into tech takes more than learning the tools. Shaneeka Abram joins me for Indiana Women in Tech Week to…
Sep 12, 2026 · 1:02:27
Students are entering a job market where AI can produce code, applications, and polished personal brands faster than ever. So what actually helps a young person stand out?…
Sep 5, 2026 · 53:44
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…
Aug 31, 2026 · 37:35
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…
Aug 29, 2026 · 1:02:35
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…
Aug 29, 2026 · 1:14:04
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…
Aug 24, 2026 · 50:53
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…
Aug 23, 2026 · 49:46
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…
Aug 22, 2026 · 1:05:21
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…
Aug 17, 2026 · 50:04
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…
Aug 16, 2026 · 47:16
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…
Aug 15, 2026 · 57:12
EPISODE DESCRIPTIONAI is already inside the world children inhabit, and waiting for perfect policy will leave teachers alone and students unguided. Indianapolis Catholic school…
Aug 10, 2026 · 1:10:08
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…
Aug 9, 2026 · 56:51
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…
Aug 8, 2026 · 1:03:05
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…
Aug 3, 2026 · 33:40
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…
Aug 2, 2026 · 1:16:43
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…
Jul 31, 2026 · 1:11:26
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…
Jul 27, 2026 · 39:40
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…
Jul 21, 2026 · 28:11
EPISODE DESCRIPTIONJason is launching Wooden Boy Industries, his own AI consulting practice focused on AI consulting, education, workforce development, and solution architecture.…
Jul 18, 2026 · 1:01:31
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…
Jul 14, 2026 · 37:18
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…
Jul 6, 2026 · 56:30
EPISODE DESCRIPTION Indiana's AI future will be decided by the people willing to build, teach, fund, hire, and keep learning now. Jason talks with Chris Hutchinson, Director of…
Jul 4, 2026 · 1:07:18
EPISODE DESCRIPTIONTiffany Preston spent 19 years putting away the kind of people most of us never want to think about. As a federal prosecutor she convicted Buster Hernandez,…
Jun 29, 2026 · 57:32
EPISODE DESCRIPTION OpenAI is handing out 50 million dollars in unrestricted cash to nonprofits, and the application closes July 15. Julie is off this week, so Jason Padgett…
Jun 25, 2026 · 53:55
Morgan Mason works with early childhood educators, coaches, and school leaders through Keep Indiana Learning, and she brings a grounded view to a conversation that can get weird…
Jun 22, 2026 · 37:30
Jason put OpenAI's Codex and Claude CoWork in the same Slack channel and told them to automate his workflow. They saved hours, built working software, duplicated work, defended…
Jun 20, 2026 · 59:54
Lena Darnay spent years as a school librarian before she landed at the Central Indiana Educational Service Center, and that librarian's brain turns out to be exactly what the AI…
Jun 15, 2026 · 29:57
EPISODE DESCRIPTIONA frontier AI model got pulled offline by executive order this week, and Jason and Julie use it to open a bigger question. The government was ahead of nuclear…
Jun 13, 2026 · 51:56
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…
Jun 8, 2026 · 33:06
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…
Jun 6, 2026 · 1:02:28
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…
Jun 1, 2026 · 38:41
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.…
May 30, 2026 · 56:56
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…
May 25, 2026 · 36:06
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…
May 23, 2026 · 1:16:57
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…
May 18, 2026 · 40:18
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…
May 17, 2026 · 1:31:43
China graduates 2 million engineers a year. The U.S. graduates 150,000. Jeff Towson has spent 17 years on the ground in China studying what that gap actually produces. In this…
May 16, 2026 · 58:10
Most AI in education conversations skip elementary school. This AI podcast episode starts there. Zionsville Community Schools Digital Learning Coach Stevie Frank walks through…
May 11, 2026 · 39:23
275 million records stolen, 9,000 institutions hit during finals week. Ashton Schultz joins Jason on the Weekly Blitz to unpack the Canvas data breach, Anthropic's surprise…
May 9, 2026 · 1:21:27
A Purdue computer science junior stood outside Chicago Union Station with a sign that said "Can AI do this?" The response surprised him, and the conversation that followed…
May 5, 2026 · 1:03:31
What's the difference between ChatGPT and Magic School AI inside a K-12 classroom? Tanika Kinartail, Professional Learning Specialist at the Central Indiana Educational Service…
May 5, 2026 · 36:09
Why are AI subscriptions about to break? This week's AI podcast unpacks tokenomics, the gym-membership flaw in ChatGPT and Claude pricing, and what happens when AI agents start…
May 5, 2026 · 1:04:35
A graphic designer who uses AI every single day sits down with Jason to explain what that actually looks like – including why AI-generated logos can't be copyrighted and why…
May 2, 2026 · 1:03:00
Alpha School says its students finish core academics in two hours a day and score in the top 1% nationally on MAP tests. This episode gets into how that actually works. Jason and…
Apr 27, 2026 · 35:22
AI is forcing consulting, law, and web design to abandon hourly billing. Jason Padgett and Julie Koehrer unpack what changes when clients know AI compressed 20 hours of work into…
Apr 20, 2026 · 30:55
Only 23% of Americans have a positive view of AI in 2026, about the same approval rating as ICE. Jason Padgett and Julie Koehrer dig into why the gap between foundation-model…
Apr 18, 2026 · 1:03:10
What if professors started grading the AI prompt instead of just the final paper? Mark Lowe, Program Chair for Entrepreneurship at Ivy Tech Community College in Lafayette,…
Apr 13, 2026 · 40:50
Claude Mythos dropped with warnings about breaking 50-year-old encryption and being too dangerous for public release. CitizenAI COO Oliver Belanger says it's something else…
Apr 11, 2026 · 1:03:08
AI makes students faster. The harder question is whether it's making them better thinkers, and Hunter Hickman, district AI implementation leader at Rensselaer Central Schools in…
Apr 6, 2026 · 38:30
Most AI projects fail before they start because businesses skip the most important step: figuring out what's actually broken. Jason Padgett and Adam Staples unpack why clarity…
Apr 4, 2026 · 54:18
AI teacher certification is getting built from scratch in Indiana — and the guy designing it explains exactly how. Ryan Murray, Project Specialist at the Central Indiana…
Mar 30, 2026 · 30:08
OpenAI is shutting down Sora and pivoting its entire enterprise strategy to compete with Anthropic — and that's just one move in a week that also saw Apple replace Siri with…
Mar 28, 2026 · 45:07
What does AI literacy actually mean for K-12 students, and why are most school districts getting it wrong? Kristen Kayser, Senior Lead for the Midwest at aiEDU (AI Education…
Mar 23, 2026 · 33:05
OpenAI called an internal code red. Anthropic is winning enterprise. ChatGPT launched ads. And the question nobody in your company wants to answer: if AI is making employees…
Mar 21, 2026 · 52:31
AGI Schools Out Saturdays | Season 2, Episode 10Amanda Wilkerson | Ivy Tech Community College SPOTIFY / APPLE PODCASTS DESCRIPTIONWhat does AI workforce training look like when…
Mar 16, 2026 · 45:00
Weekly Blitz | March 16, 2026 | Special Audible Edition Guests: Brian Beck + Colin Stauffer wo central Indiana consultants walk Jason through what AI adoption really looks like…
Mar 14, 2026 · 1:13:20
How should college students actually use AI to land a job in 2026 — when every applicant has the same tools and companies are using AI to screen the resumes that AI wrote? Purdue…
Mar 9, 2026 · 1:52:59
Most businesses think they're ready for AI agents. Jason Padgett and Clay Cash — a 25-year data and litigation technology veteran — break down exactly why that's usually wrong,…
Mar 9, 2026 · 39:54
Agentic AI just caused a Mac Mini shortage in New York City — and most people working at the Apple Store didn't even know why. This week, Jason Padgett and Julie Koehrer break…
Mar 2, 2026 · 38:07
AGI Podcast Presents: The Weekly Blitz — Episode 8 Jason and CitizenAI COO Oliver Belanger break down how AI can actually help nonprofits connect people to the wraparound support…
Feb 23, 2026 · 33:33
AGI - Advance, Grow, and Innovate with AI (Podcast) - Building the future, one human-AI collab at a time. Weekly Blitz Episode 7. AI news recap for Feb 23, 2026: OpenClaw, Gemini…
Feb 21, 2026 · 1:02:12
AI adoption keeps stalling in organizations for the same reason most conferences are forgettable: nobody designed for behavior change. Nick Bonora, Director of the Purdue…
Feb 15, 2026 · 2:14:39
THE VIBE EPISODE 3 What do Anthropic's internal AI papers reveal about the future of education, safety, and humanity? Ronda Swartz, Assistant Principal at St. Barnabas Catholic…
Feb 14, 2026 · 51:48
How does a middle school language arts teacher use AI to build better lessons, save time, and actually know her students better? Patty Oshier, a fifth-year educator currently…
Feb 8, 2026 · 35:30
How do you cut administrative work in half without laying anyone off? Phoenix Paramedic Solutions did it using Claude Teams and custom AI workflows. Jason and Julie break down…
Feb 7, 2026 · 45:01
Jordan Meyers on School's Out Saturdays on the AGI Podcast - Because our job is to prepare students for their future not our past. (Episode 6) ChatGPT in Paramedic School: How…
Feb 2, 2026 · 35:42
Julie's MIA, so Jason called in Harrison Painter (Launch Ready AI) to decode the internet's latest obsession: OpenClaw. The autonomous AI agent everyone's downloading without…
Jan 31, 2026 · 1:02:07
School's Out Saturdays on the AGI Podcast - Because our job is to prepare students for their future not our past. (Episode 5) Episode Summary: John von Seggern spent a decade…
Jan 26, 2026 · 37:36
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗪𝗲𝗲𝗸𝗹𝘆 𝗕𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘇 - 𝗘𝗽𝗶𝘀𝗼𝗱𝗲 𝟰 | AI Wearables Are Coming: Privacy, Productivity, and Who's Really Working Jason and Julie debate Google joining Siri,…
Jan 24, 2026 · 57:09
School's Out Saturdays on the AGI Podcast - Because our job is to prepare students for their future not our past. (Episode 4) Episode Summary :Lena Morris brings…
Jan 19, 2026 · 33:24
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗪𝗲𝗲𝗸𝗹𝘆 𝗕𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘇 - 𝗘𝗽𝗶𝘀𝗼𝗱𝗲 𝟯 | AI Health Tools, Data Centers, and the Great Midwest Migration ChatGPT Health and Claude Health just dropped, and Jason and…
Jan 19, 2026 · 1:58:45
The Vibe on the AGI Podcast - No code, no clock, no BS. No holds barred riffs with people who know their stuff. (Episode 2) Episode Summary: Tech founder Preston Zeller brings 15…
Jan 17, 2026 · 1:03:10
School's Out Saturdays on the AGI Podcast - Because our job is to prepare students for their future not our past. (Episode 3) Episode Summary: Columbia Masters grad turned Wall…
Jan 12, 2026 · 28:40
Jason and Julie tackle xAI's Grok drama, Anthropic's newClaude Code tool, and the uncomfortable question nobody wants to ask: what happens when AI gets so advanced that our…
Jan 9, 2026 · 50:00
School's Out Saturdays on the AGI Podcast - Because our job is to prepare students for their future not our past. (Season 2, Episode 2) Episode Summary : Educational consultant…
Jan 5, 2026 · 30:09
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗪𝗲𝗲𝗸𝗹𝘆 𝗕𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘇 - 𝗘𝗽𝗶𝘀𝗼𝗱𝗲 𝟭 | 2025 AI Predictions Review & The Return to AnalogJason and Julie review 2025 AI predictions and debate a surprising trend:…
Jan 3, 2026 · 47:18
School's Out Saturdays on the AGI Podcast - Because our job is to prepare students for their future not our past. (Season 2, Episode 1) Episode Summary :When a paramedic…
Dec 29, 2025 · 2:25:18
The Vibe on the AGI Podcast - No code, no clock, no BS. No holds barred riffs with people who know their stuff. (Episode 60) Episode Summary :The premiere of The Vibe: 2 hours 40…
Dec 27, 2025 · 1:01:19
School's Out Saturdays on the AGI Podcast - Because our job is to prepare students for their future not our past. (Episode 59) Episode Summary :MIT PhD candidate BreAnne Fleer…
Dec 22, 2025 · 53:57
The AGI Podcast - Practical AI for everyday people who got stuck implementing it. (Episode 58) Episode Summary: Most organizations are moving too fast with AI while missing the…
Dec 20, 2025 · 52:59
School's Out Saturdays on the AGI Podcast - Because our job is to prepare students for their future not our past. (Episode 57) Episode Summary :What does it look like when…
Dec 15, 2025 · 58:35
The AGI Podcast - Practical AI for everyday people who got stuck implementing it. (Episode 56) Episode Summary: Tom and Jason dig into data readiness for AI, the complexities of…
Dec 13, 2025 · 46:47
School's Out Saturdays on the AGI Podcast - Because our job is to prepare students for their future not our past. (Episode 55) Episode Summary :What happens when a podcast host…
Dec 8, 2025 · 1:11:14
Monday on the AGI Podcast - Practical AI for everyday people who got stuck implementing it. (Episode 54) Episode Summary: What happens when AI makes doctors more efficient but…
Dec 6, 2025 · 1:04:35
School's Out Saturdays on the AGI Podcast - Because our job is to prepare students for their future not our past. (Episode 53) Episode Summary: Julian Yoon breaks down data…
Nov 30, 2025 · 59:42
AGI - Advance, Grow, and Innovate with AI - The Podcast - For Whoever Got Stuck Making AI Work Episode 51 Episode Summary : An ad-hoc conversation exploring AI adoption in the…
Nov 29, 2025 · 1:06:45
School’s Out Saturdays on the AGI (Podcast) - Because our job is to prepare students for their future not our past. (Episode 51) Episode Summary : Dr. KaT Zarychta brings a…
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