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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.
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- Yesterday39 min
AI for Small Business: Automate, Audit, Adapt | Bryan Barnhill | Weekly Blitz
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 Barnhill for a practical Weekly Blitz conversation about small-business AI, useful automation and the work of checking what your agents actually did.Bryan is a retired IT professional whose later career included healthcare. He describes his interest in helping owners think about AI before a business transition, building an app that lets customers buy friends a drink for later collection, and learning from a multi-agent fantasy-football project that did not generate sales.WHAT YOU’LL TAKE AWAYCompare model quality with the quality of your prompts and feedback.Give every automation a way to be checked and updated.Start with the customer’s problem before sending agents to fix things.Treat an unsuccessful product experiment as evidence you can learn from.TRY THISChoose one recurring task. Define the useful result, decide how you will check it and put a review date on the calendar.CONNECT WITH BRYAN BARNHILLBryan is based in Indianapolis. He is exploring AI uses for local small businesses and building a drink-gifting app.https://www.linkedin.com/in/bryan-barnhill-4698b16/RESOURCES MENTIONEDZen Mind, Beginner’s Mind. Jason discusses its beginner’s-mind idea during the conversation.CONNECT 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.aiTOOLS DISCUSSEDChatGPT and CodexClaudeGrokSlackMUSICShrug It OffMusic licensed through Soundstripe.Code: AQUEWI4ZJHA7FLTT
- 2 days ago1h 8m
Can’t Honor the Gentleman’s Rule? Don’t Enter the Duel
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: how do we build judgment, responsibility, and real AI literacy before capability outruns control?The conversation starts with frontier AI. Who benefits from regulation? Can data centers provide a practical control point? What happens when a machine follows a measurable goal without sharing the values behind it? And if constitutional AI is part of the answer, who gets to write the constitution?Then the argument moves into schools, where those questions are already real. Hunter explains why detection-first policies create a game of cat and mouse, why teachers need durable AI literacy more than a rotating catalog of tools, and why responsible use should develop people instead of simply offloading their work.WHAT YOU’LL TAKE AWAYWhy AI control is a governance problem as much as a technical problemHow broad principles can preserve local judgment in school AI policyWhy students should learn to show their work when AI is involvedHow teachers can act more like coaches while students explore, practice, and performWhy purposeful AI use can mean less student screen time, not moreHow consistency and literacy can outlast any single AI platformThe episode lands on Hunter’s experience at Wabash College. The Gentleman’s Rule replaced a thick rulebook with a broad expectation of responsible conduct. It trusted people with freedom and held them accountable for judgment. That same principle connects classroom discipline, digital citizenship, and the effort to align increasingly capable AI.The challenge: find one place where your current AI policy rewards compliance without developing judgment. Rewrite it as a standard people must understand and uphold.ABOUT HUNTER HICKMANHunter Hickman, M.S., is a secondary English educator, English department head, district AI implementation leader, founder of Hickman Consulting LLC, and head boys wrestling coach at Rensselaer Central High School. He works at the intersection of classroom practice, educator development, and responsible AI adoption.CONNECT WITH HUNTER HICKMANHickman Consulting AIhttps://www.hickmanconsultingai.com/LinkedInhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/hunter-hickman-m-s-2b501383/Rensselaer Central High Schoolhttps://rchs.rensselaerschools.org/Rensselaer Central Boys Wrestlinghttps://rensselaerathletics.com/Team/7cbc4208-1bfa-4331-b0f4-7c4257672d98/Wrestling%20%28Boys%20V-JV%29RESOURCES MENTIONEDThe Gentleman’s Rule | Wabash Collegehttps://www.wabash.edu/aboutwabash/ruleClaude’s Constitution | Anthropichttps://www.anthropic.com/constitutionAttention Is All You Needhttps://arxiv.org/abs/1706.03762CONNECT 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.aiTOOLS MENTIONEDChatGPTClaudeGeminiGrokMagicSchoolSchoolAIKhanmigo📧 jason@agipodcast.ai
- 3 days ago52 min
The Future Has No Fixed Path | Toni Holcombe on AI, Learning and the Courage to Pivot
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 decided, and one choice does not have to become a lifelong identity.This episode closes 2026 Indiana Women in Tech Week and serves as this week's AGI School's Out Saturdays conversation. Jason Padgett and Toni move from data careers and AI hiring to education, trust, creativity, learning differences and the ability to change direction when a path no longer serves you.Toni explains why technical knowledge alone is not enough. People who can translate technical work into language others can understand bring enormous value. She challenges the usual idea of cultural fit, which can become groupthink when everybody sounds and thinks alike. She also argues that students should sometimes do the work the hard way before automating it. A bad process does not improve just because technology makes it faster.The conversation explores how AI fear creates resistance, why no model stays best forever, how audio and visual formats can help different learners, and why a degree or first career choice does not have to define the rest of a student's life.IN THIS EPISODE01:41 Creating visibility for people navigating an AI-shaped job market04:43 Translating technical knowledge into human language06:40 Cultural fit, diversity of thought and groupthink09:09 Learning a process before automating it11:48 Why fear makes people resist AI20:47 Designing for different kinds of learners31:49 The limits of AI as a thought partner37:46 Matching the model to the work40:53 Do not automate a broken process44:12 There is no spoon: Toni's advice for studentsCONNECT WITH TONI HOLCOMBELinkedInhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/toni-holcombe/CONNECT 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.ai
- 3 days ago32 min
Episode Title Indiana Women in Tech Week 6, AI Needs Women’s Voices Featuring Angie Carel
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 Indiana Women in Tech Week series, Jason Padgett talks with Angie Carel, an AI advisor, speaker and community builder in Fort Wayne, Indiana.Angie explains how marketing and creative strategy led her into generative AI, why curiosity matters more than a technical title, and how consistent learning took her from feeling intimidated by technology to working in terminal windows and building agents.The conversation moves beyond tools. Angie and Jason discuss which work people should keep for themselves, how much trust AI agents have earned, why women's voices must be part of the future being built, and why healthy disagreement may be one of the most important skills of the AI era.They also look toward 2035. Angie expects neither a perfect technological utopia nor a total dystopia. She expects surprises, tradeoffs and choices that people still have the power to shape.This episode closes the 2026 Indiana Women in Tech Week series from the Hoosier Heartland.CONNECT WITH ANGIE CARELWebsite: https://www.angiecarel.com/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/angiecarel/Fort Wayne AI: https://www.fortwayne-ai.com/CONNECT 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.ai
- 4 days ago29 min
Indiana Women in Tech Week 5, The Future Needs Lifelong Learners Featuring Jenna Copper
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 and Oregon Trail. That early experience became one stop on a path from elementary education to technology leadership.For Episode 5 of 2026 Indiana Women in Tech Week, Jason Padgett talks with Jenna, Director of Technology & Innovation at the Central Indiana Educational Service Center. Jenna shares how a technology endorsement and an inspiring female professor helped her see a career she had not originally planned. Her work later grew from classroom technology and early one-to-one device programs into district leadership, professional learning, AI strategy, cybersecurity and data privacy.The central question is what an eighth grader should prepare for when no one can confidently predict what work will look like by the time that student reaches adulthood.Jenna's answer is lifelong learning. Stay curious. Take risks. Make mistakes. Tinker. Give young people the freedom to explore opportunities that may not exist yet. She also explains why modern school technology leaders need more than technical ability. They must understand students, teaching, organizational vision and the people affected by every technology decision.IN THIS EPISODE00:27 Jenna's path from elementary education into technology05:01 The computer lab inside a school bus09:17 How K-12 technology leadership has changed13:02 Helping girls see themselves in technology15:31 Curiosity and lifelong learning in an uncertain future18:54 Giving students space to explore21:56 Mentorship and connection for technology leaders25:30 Human intelligence plus artificial intelligenceCONNECT WITH JENNA COOPERLinkedInhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/lacoopjCIESC Technology & Innovationhttps://ciesc.org/service/technology-innovation/CONNECT 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.ai
- 6 days ago23 min
Bring Your Full Self to Tech | Heather Darring
DESCRIPTIONWhat 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, Jason Padgett sits down with Heather Darring, Chief Information Officer at Kappa Alpha Theta Headquarters and president of the Indiana CIO Network. Heather's path did not begin with a traditional computer science plan. She studied oil painting, found her foundation in technology at Ball State, and started at the help desk before growing into executive leadership.Heather explains why technology is broad enough for many kinds of talent, why teams improve when people bring different experiences to the problem, and why leaders must build rooms where nobody has to carry the weight of being the only woman or minority. Her message to women in tech is direct: be yourself. Bring your gifts, perspective and full self into the room.Jason and Heather also discuss career changes, welcoming people from other industries, and a better way to think about imposter syndrome. Feeling off balance can mean you have reached a place where growth is possible. You can learn the next thing, ask for help and keep going.CHAPTERS00:00 Welcome to Episode 400:33 Heather's start at the help desk01:43 From oil painting to technology04:11 Why girls still need deliberate encouragement06:44 Technology, ethics and human flourishing10:06 The many ways natural talent fits into tech12:31 Creating rooms where no one is the only one15:01 Why nontraditional career paths make teams stronger18:07 Bring your full self into the room20:47 Turning imposter syndrome into an opportunity to grow23:21 Closing message for Indiana Women in Tech WeekCONNECT WITH HEATHER DARRINGLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/heather-darring-100/CONNECT 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.ai#IndianaWomenInTechWeek #WomenInTech #TechLeadership
- 6 days ago20 min
Indiana Women in Tech Week 3 - Data Still Needs People | Toni Holcombe on AI and Data
DESCRIPTIONWhat 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 has a clear answer when Jason asks whether AI will make data people irrelevant: someone still has to connect the words business users use with what the data actually means.For episode three of Indiana's Women in Tech Week, Jason sits down with Toni, a data strategy and governance professional he met at an AI and Coffee gathering in Fishers. Toni traces her path from Gateway tech support and paralegal work to teaching herself Python, building a data warehouse, and leading people through data work. They unpack bronze, silver and gold data layers in plain English, talk about structured and unstructured information, and examine why a confident answer from an LLM still needs checking.This conversation is for anyone trying to make sense of the data inside a small or growing organization, and for anyone curious about a career that mixes technical skill with people skill.CHAPTERS00:00 Jason meets Toni during Indiana's Women in Tech Week02:07 From Gateway tech support to data analytics05:38 The data terms small businesses keep hearing06:22 Bronze, silver and gold: from raw records to useful reports08:29 Structured files, unstructured files and confident AI mistakes13:03 How a data lake can turn into a data swamp14:12 What Toni means by a data warehouse15:37 Why data touches every part of a business18:38 Will AI replace the data scientist or business analyst?19:19 Closing and the education conversation aheadCONNECT WITH TONI HOLCOMBELinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/toni-holcombe/CONNECT 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.ai#WomenInTechWeek #DataStrategy #AGIPodcast
- 1 weeks ago40 min
Who Gets to Control AI? Julie Koehrer on Risk, Work, and Public Trust | The Weekly Blitz
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, Julie Koehrer and Jason Padgett sort through what deserves attention, what deserves skepticism, and where the human judgment still matters.Julie brings the perspective that makes The Weekly Blitz work: curious, grounded, willing to disagree, and always connected to how technology lands in real life. The conversation moves from catastrophic AI headlines to data center oversight, teacher workload, healthcare documentation, employee value, work-life balance, self-driving cars, and public surveillance.WHAT YOU'LL TAKE AWAYWhy controlling increasingly capable AI is harder than writing a simple ruleHow AI productivity gains collide with work-life balance and workplace incentivesWhere AI may reduce administrative burden for teachers and healthcare workersWhy public trust depends on accountability, not just technical capabilityHow respectful disagreement can produce a better conversation than certaintyABOUT JULIE KOEHRERJulie Koehrer is a branding and marketing consultant and afternoon host at Lafayette's Q106.7. She co-hosts The Weekly Blitz, the AGI Podcast's fast Monday conversation about what changed in AI and what might matter during the workweek.RESOURCES MENTIONEDIndiana Women IN Tech Weekhttps://www.indianawomenintechweek.com/The AGI Podcast Networkhttps://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/networkWoof Boom Radio Indianahttps://woofboom.com/indiana/CONNECT 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.aiTOOLS USEDRiversideSpotify for Creators
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