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You Teach The Machines

Jeff Pennington and MJ Pennington

Hot takes on living with AI from the first generation who has no choice: today"s college students.

society & culture tech news

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34:30

Poursteady Part 1: Stephan Von Muehlen

You Teach The Machines ·

2026/01/27

Domestic manufacturing, onshoring, re-industrialization? Poursteady founder Stephan Von Muehlen walks the walk despite the challenges. A fascinating look at a 10 year old specialty electronic equipment company in the Gowanus neighborhood of Brooklyn, NY. Hear how it ain't easy doing things domestically. Also glimmers of hope that new technology can contribute to profitable growth across design, engineering, automated manufacturing, operations, and customer service.

13:09

Pirate Sleep Story

You Teach The Machines ·

2026/01/27

You can't make this up! Apple's podcast AI tagged our other podcast The Boaty Show as "comforting sleep stories." Thing is, the sleep stories are bits in a couple episodes where we talk like pirates! "Arrr time to take off ye peg leg and lay yer head down in the bilge wee ones." I got an automated bot email with the news we're charting at #15, sure enough it checked out. Go listen to Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend, Netflix used AI to make marketing material that mistakenly included Conan as a former

38:25

Audiobook: Chapter 5 Make AI Work For You

You Teach The Machines ·

2026/01/10

Listen to Chapter 5 of my book You Teach the Machines! If you find this helpful, please download the full book wherever you get audiobooks. Available from Libro.fm, Amazon, Audible, Apple and many more. Also in print at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and my favorite: delivered to your local bookstore through bookshop.org. Help other readers by leaving a review on Amazon or Goodreads! Thanks so much --Jeff

44:33

Audiobook: Chapter 4 Part 2 Side Effects and Pitfalls

You Teach The Machines ·

2026/01/10

Listen to Chapter 4 Part 2 of my book You Teach the Machines! If you find this helpful, please download the full book wherever you get audiobooks. Available from Libro.fm, Amazon, Audible, Apple and many more. Also in print at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and my favorite: delivered to your local bookstore through bookshop.org. Help other readers by leaving a review on Amazon or Goodreads! Thanks so much --Jeff

01:10

Audiobook: Intermission Bloopers!

You Teach The Machines ·

2026/01/10

Take a break from the heaviest chapter of my book You Teach the Machines! If you find this helpful, please download the full book wherever you get audiobooks. Available from Libro.fm, Amazon, Audible, Apple and many more. Also in print at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and my favorite: delivered to your local bookstore through bookshop.org. Help other readers by leaving a review on Amazon or Goodreads! Thanks so much --Jeff

47:56

Audiobook: Chapter 4 Part 1 Side Effects and Pitfalls

You Teach The Machines ·

2026/01/10

Listen to Chapter 4 Part 1 of my book You Teach the Machines! If you find this helpful, please download the full book wherever you get audiobooks. Available from Libro.fm, Amazon, Audible, Apple and many more. Also in print at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and my favorite: delivered to your local bookstore through bookshop.org. Help other readers by leaving a review on Amazon or Goodreads! Thanks so much --Jeff

44:17

Audiobook: Chapter 3 Industrial AI Revolution

You Teach The Machines ·

2026/01/10

Listen to Chapter 3 of my book You Teach the Machines! If you find this helpful, please download the full book wherever you get audiobooks. Available from Libro.fm, Amazon, Audible, Apple and many more. Also in print at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and my favorite: delivered to your local bookstore through bookshop.org. Help other readers by leaving a review on Amazon or Goodreads! Thanks so much --Jeff

29:36

Audiobook: Chapter 2 Augmented Intelligence

You Teach The Machines ·

2026/01/10

Listen to Chapter 2 of my book You Teach the Machines! Please share with friends and download the full book wherever you get audiobooks. Available from Libro.fm, Amazon, Audible, Apple and many more. Get it in print at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and my favorite: delivered to your local bookstore through bookshop.org. Help other readers by leaving a review on Amazon or Goodreads! Thanks so much --Jeff

01:18:16

Audiobook: Chapter 1 What Is AI?

You Teach The Machines ·

2026/01/10

Listen to Chapter 1 of my book You Teach the Machines! Please share with friends and download the full book wherever you get audiobooks. Available from Libro.fm, Amazon, Audible, Apple and many more. Get it in print at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and my favorite: delivered to your local bookstore through bookshop.org. Help other readers by leaving a review on Amazon or Goodreads! Thanks so much --Jeff

56:38

Audiobook Introduction

You Teach The Machines ·

2025/11/26

Listen to the Introduction to the audio version of my book You Teach the Machines: AI On Your Terms! If you find this helpful, please download the full book whereever you get audiobooks. Available from Amazon, Audible, Apple and many more. Also in print at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and my favorite: delivered to your local bookstore through bookshop.org. Help other readers by leaving a review on Amazon or Goodreads! Thanks so much --Jeff

44:20

Georgie Kovacs

You Teach The Machines ·

2025/11/26

Georgie Kovacs is a women's health expert who spent 20 years in high-level roles at major companies like Pfizer and IQVIA before founding her consulting practice and becoming a full-time patient advocate. After her personal four-year battle to get an endometriosis diagnosis, she founded Fempower Health, https://www.fempower-health.com which uses a popular podcast to cut through the confusion and stigma surrounding women's health issues. In her consulting, she uses her deep industry knowledge to

07:02

OpenAI Fails Its Ask Jeeves Moment

You Teach The Machines ·

2025/10/21

Oh Sam. Ask Jeeves established precedent for the search industry that monetizing porn is bad for people and for business. OpenAI and its Microsoft godfather seems intent on doing the opposite. Will Google and Amazon read the room* and ask What Would Jeeves Do? When I worked at Ask Jeeves in 2000 there was a debate. We were valued at $12B but nowhere near breaking even. Should Jeeves be a butler for porn? Eric our internet architect sat on the traffic control council for the internet (W3C) and

OpenAI Fails Its Ask Jeeves Moment

You Teach The Machines ·

2025/10/21

51:59

Paul Berger Gives MJ Hope

You Teach The Machines ·

2025/10/16

Paul Berger joins and shockingly convinces MJ that AI is not the enemy! His thoughtful and constructive approach to MJ's skepticism is based on a lifetime of experience and success in two wildly different fields. An excellent episode! If you find the episode helpful, please share with friends and family. Thanks for listening!

19:43

Cincinnati Children's - Philip Hagedorn, MD

You Teach The Machines ·

2025/07/22

Chief Health Informatics Officer Phil Hagedorn shares a "this is happening right now" bedside view of artificial intelligence and clinical education. MJ asks Phil to advise aspiring medical and nursing students, as well as twenty-somethings new to the workforce. MJ asks Jeff the same question. Both have (some) answers! Thanks for listening!

Book

You Teach The Machines ·

2025/06/30

Hi, Jeff here! Here's how you can get You Teach The Machines... Best for humanity: ask your local library to order from the distributor (IngramSpark) so you and others can read it. Give them the ISBN*. Hardcover ISBN is 979-8-9988152-1-8, paperback ISBN is 979-8-9988152-0-1. Best for your community: ask your local book store to order from the distributor. Give them the ISBN. Paperback ISBN is 979-8-9988152-0-1. You pay $16, bookstore makes $8.50, I get $2.40. Hardcover ISBN is 979-8-9988152-1-8

Kindle Pre-order!

You Teach The Machines ·

2025/06/17

Hi, want to pre-order the Kindle eBook of You Teach the Machines: AI On Your Terms? Go to https://a.co/d/9Dm2tsk to pre-order the Kindle eBook for delivery June 26th. I wrote You Teach the Machines to be an entertaining roadmap, manual and sometimes antidote to AI-driven change. The book helps articulate the fear and optimism experienced by you, me, our kids, their teachers, and our parents. You Teach the Machines AI on your terms. Not theirs. You Teach the Machines helps people of all

45:45

Pablo Urdiales Antelo - Journalism at Swansea

You Teach The Machines ·

2025/06/05

If you thought AI killed journalism, you haven't met Pablo! Thrilled to speak with Pablo Urdiales Antelo, full-time journalist and Class of 2024 graduate of the excellent Swansea University! Class of '25, '26, '27: this is a great discussion of Pablo's experience starting out in a profession AI is supposedly automating. We find space between doom and optimism, but if you're looking for easy answers with AI... let us know when you find them! Thanks for listening, check out Pablo's articles at

36:37

Jack - CS at CalPoly

You Teach The Machines ·

2025/05/30

Our first graduate in the workforce! Jack takes his fresh computer science degree to Silicon Valley and along the way shares how he lives and works with AI as a student, job candidate, and new employee. We discuss whether AI will put 20-somethings like Jack and MJ out of work, or just maybe 50-somethings like me will be on the outs! MJ asks a great question about learning to think vs learning to program and we get closer to some answers. Get in touch at youteachthemachines.com and thanks for

26:04

Serena - AI, Privacy and Public Health

You Teach The Machines ·

2025/04/27

The kids care about privacy! Hallelujah! Serena joins to discuss privacy and use of health data in AI. Also, use of your content in OneDrive, Gmail, Google Drive to train AI. We try for a balanced view, but are mostly freaked out. Thanks for listening, please review, subscribe and get in touch at youteachthemachines.com.

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