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AGI - Advance, Grow, Innovate with AI

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

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00:49:46

Why AI Systems Fail: Employee Buy-In Before...

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2026/08/23

EPISODE TITLEWhy AI Systems Fail: Employee Buy-In Before Automation with Olga ZippaEPISODE DESCRIPTIONIf the people doing the work are the last people consulted, your new AI system is already in trouble.Olga Zippa came to systems work sideways. While pursuing acting in Vancouver, she took temporary administrative jobs across construction, healthcare, and other industries. She watched small teams with clear processes outperform much larger companies that ran on memory, inboxes, and constant founder

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01:05:21

When AI Cuts Entry-Level Jobs, Who Builds the Senior...

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2026/08/22

EPISODE DESCRIPTIONCompanies 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 College joins Jason to talk about the 13 percent employment decline experienced by workers ages 22 to 25 in highly AI-exposed occupations, and what colleges, employers, and students can do about it.The answer reaches beyond adding another AI 101 course. They discuss Ivy Tech's AI pathways, apprenticeships, project-based

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00:50:04

Julie Opens Up On: Brand Voice, Community, and...

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2026/08/17

Voice, Community, Connection: Meet Weekly Blitz Co-Host Julie KoehrerJulie Koehrer believes a local radio station should do more than fill airtime. It should use its voice to build its community.In this Weekly Blitz special, Jason turns the microphone toward his co-host. Julie shares how nearly two decades in radio shaped her approach to sales, marketing, public speaking, and community service. She explains why memorable businesses need both an online presence and real human connection, why

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00:47:16

Become an AI Orchestrator: Harrison Painter on the...

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2026/08/16

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 orchestrators, and their value is about to climb.Harrison and Jason compare what they could do eight months ago with what they can build today. They get honest about the fear of terminals, the limits of vibe-coded software, why developers still matter, and how people can get paid while learning. The conversation also moves

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00:57:12

AI Is Already Here: What K-12 Teachers and Students...

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2026/08/15

EPISODE DESCRIPTIONAI is already inside the world children inhabit, and waiting for perfect policy will leave teachers alone and students unguided. Indianapolis Catholic school leader Ronda Swartz joins Jason Padgett to make the case for beginning with teacher pain: return time lost to planning, grading, and repetitive work so educators can focus on students.They examine testing fatigue, project-based learning, voice as a doorway into student thinking, and personalization that builds from strengths

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01:10:08

Who Gets to Shape the AI Future? | AI4, Agents, Open...

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2026/08/10

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 saw at AI4 and what it means for people trying to keep up with AI without getting lost in hype or fear.They cover the move from copilots to agents, governance, security, open source, data privacy, AI companions, and why small businesses have a real opportunity to use AI before larger organizations fully catch up.WHAT YOU’LL

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00:56:51

AI Clarity for Businesses with Chakra's Adam Staples

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2026/08/09

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 failed the way CRM rollouts have failed for decades: nobody at the top owned the result. Now he runs Chakra AI Solutions, and his pitch is the opposite of the enterprise consultants charging five figures a day. Map where your business actually spends its energy first, then let a foundation model plug in one chunk at a

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01:03:05

How to Grade Student Work When AI Can Write It

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2026/08/08

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 assess a thing: the essay, the spreadsheet, the safety manual. AI produces things on demand, so faculty end up policing with detection software Mike says the data shows is unreliable.WHAT YOU'LL TAKE AWAYWhy the artifact stopped being evidence of learningThe five AI modes: hone, use, mediate, align, navigateThe second rubric,

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00:33:40

Uncle Sam Buys Into AI Chips and ChatGPT Finally...

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2026/08/03

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 Weekly Blitz, Jason and co-host Julie Koehrer work through the CHIPS Act equity deal, the US-China open-source fight, why Riverside's paywalled MCP connector has Jason ready to build his own tool, and the new GPT-Live voice that turned his phone into a remote for his whole computer.ABOUT THIS EPISODEThis episode of the Weekly

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01:16:43

Beginner’s Mind vs. the Engineers: The Non-Coder...

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2026/08/02

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 guest is the argument made flesh. Bill Mrklas has spent 26 years at BrainMaster Technologies, an Ohio manufacturer of EEG neurofeedback equipment that retrains brains struggling with anxiety, trauma, and autism instead of masking symptoms with medication. He is the sales and marketing guy. He had never typed

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01:11:26

Rural Schools, Real AI: A Teacher’s Blueprint for...

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2026/07/31

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 without anyone telling him to. Hunter Hickman teaches English and coaches wrestling at Rensselaer Central High School in Jasper County, Indiana's most rural county, and became his district's AI lead after a 2024 conference session at the CELL Early College Summit shook loose some bad assumptions about plagiarism and

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00:39:40

OpenAI's Paperclip Maximizer Moment and UAPs: Jason &...

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2026/07/27

EPISODE DESCRIPTIONOpenAI ran a cybersecurity benchmark called ExploitGym with the usual safety refusals turned down, and the model under test decided the fastest route to a high score was to stop taking the test. GPT-5.6 Sol chained a zero-day in internally hosted third party software, got itself onto the open internet, walked into Hugging Face production infrastructure, and took the answer key. Hugging Face caught the intrusion on its own and called law enforcement before anyone told them the

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00:28:11

Launching Wooden Boy Industries: CitizenAI, Open...

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2026/07/21

EPISODE DESCRIPTIONJason is launching Wooden Boy Industries, his own AI consulting practice focused on AI consulting, education, workforce development, and solution architecture. He is staying on as an advisor to CitizenAI, where he spent part of this year helping the platform get its footing with Silicon Valley engineers he still credits for a lot of his growth. Jason and Weekly Blitz co-host Julie Koehrer break down a loaded AI news week: New York became the first state to sign a statewide

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01:01:31

AI in Catholic Education: What K-12 Schools Owe Their...

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2026/07/18

EPISODE DESCRIPTIONSchools 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 relationships. Jason Padgett sits down with Lewis Poché of the University of Notre Dame’s Alliance for Catholic Education to ask what that principle demands in the age of AI.Lewis makes the case for teaching AI literacy before handing young students unrestricted tools. He explains why schools must protect the learning

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00:37:18

Eighty Hours in Ninety Minutes: What AI Agent Teams...

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2026/07/14

ABOUT THIS EPISODEThis Weekly Blitz episode explains how non-technical professionals can coordinate AI agents, choose among current frontier and open models, and identify a first task worth automating. It answers why model routing and local inference matter, how human edits can train a reusable writing skill, and what AI changes in classrooms when producing the answer becomes easy.ABOUT THE CO-HOSTJulie Koehrer is an on-air personality and branding and marketing consultant at Lafayette’s Q106.7. On

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00:56:30

TechPoint and CICP: Indiana's AI Talent Pipeline and...

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2026/07/06

EPISODE DESCRIPTIONIndiana'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 Engagement at TechPoint, about how TechPoint and CICP connect Indiana's tech economy through the Indiana AI Innovation Network, CIO and CDO peer groups, founder support, Xtern, Xtern Challenge, and the Mira Awards. The conversation moves from hockey and Hoosier hospitality into the hard questions: whether Indiana can

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01:07:18

Protecting Our Kids in the Age of AI With Former DOJ...

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2026/07/04

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, the "Brian Kil" sextortionist who threatened at least 375 kids and drew a 75-year sentence. So when she talks about how AI is changing crimes against children, it lands differently.She and Jason get into the part that should worry every parent. Generative AI has made it nearly impossible to prove whether an explicit

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00:57:32

OpenAI's $50M People-First AI Fund: How Nonprofits Win

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2026/06/29

EPISODE DESCRIPTIONOpenAI 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 brought in his boss, CitizenAI Chief Operating Officer Oliver Belanger, to break down the OpenAI Foundation's 2026 People-First AI Fund and what it takes to actually win it. The pitch is almost suspiciously simple. Grants run up to 10 percent of your annual operating budget, the money hits your books as unrestricted funds, the

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00:53:55

AI in Early Childhood Education with Morgan Mason

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2026/06/25

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 fast: what should AI do around young children?Jason and Morgan talk through AI toys, Mr. Potato Head with a language model inside, the risks of sycophancy and anthropomorphism, and the bigger opportunity sitting right beside those risks. AI could help educators communicate with families across language barriers, support

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00:37:30

What Managing Two AI Agents Taught Me About the...

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2026/06/22

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 territory, missed messages, and required more management than either agent expected.That experiment opens a wider Weekly Blitz conversation with Julie Koehrer about the human skills agentic work will demand. Clear instructions matter. Shared context matters. Someone still has to define success, resolve conflict, and recognize

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