AI, Work & What Comes Next | Bryan Barnhill | Humans in the Loop

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 uses of AI, the limits of automation, and the people affected by both.

Bryan brings decades in technology, including healthcare IT and business operations. He has been exploring AI agents in his own projects and shares what learning these tools looks like from the inside.

WHAT YOU’LL TAKE AWAY

How to start with one AI tool and learn it well.

Why industry expertise still matters when an agent can build quickly.

What sensitive data and regulated work demand from an AI workflow.

How AI may change creative work, jobs, and the way teams communicate.

Why helping people learn to use these tools matters more than doing everything for them.

Try this: choose one repeated task this week, decide what success would look like, and test one AI tool on a version you can review yourself.

ABOUT BRYAN BARNHILL

Bryan is a retired technology professional in Indianapolis. In this conversation, he describes earlier work in PC networking, healthcare IT, and business operations, and his current exploration of AI agents.

Bryan on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bryan-barnhill-4698b16/

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