AGI – Advance, Grow, Innovate with AI
AGI - Advance, Grow, Innovate with AI
Podcast Description
A real-talk podcast about AI, politics, and the people caught in between. Jason and Julie tackle everything from ChatGPT and China Tech to censorship, the White House, UAPs, and the ethics of AI. It’s part news, part debate, part therapy session for a world in flux.
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Content Themes
The podcast explores a range of themes including AI ethics, political implications, and cultural commentary. Episodes feature discussions on topics such as the potential of AI for business applications, the future of human-AI collaboration, and the implications of pervasive surveillance technology, including exploring trending episodes that cover issues like background-checking AI and UAPs.
AGI Podcast — Advance, Grow, Innovate with AI
For people who got stuck making AI work and educators preparing students for what’s next.
Jason Padgett and Julie Koehrer cut through AI hype with practical insights for workforce development, education, and small to medium businesses—where AI implementation happens in the trenches, not the headlines.
4 shows, 1 mission:
Mondays: The Weekly Blitz – AI news recap
Mon/Wed/Fri: Data Bytes – 5-min YouTube Shorts on data literacy
Saturdays: School’s Out – Educators and students preparing for an AI-driven future
Monthly: The Vibe – Long-form deep dive
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 entirely: one of the most well-targeted enterprise sales campaigns the AI industry has ever run.
Key topics covered:
Why AI companies use fear to drive consumer attention and investor funding
The Anthropic vs. OpenAI business philosophy divide: lead bullets vs. silver bullets
Token maxing: why measuring AI productivity by token spend is this generation's lines-of-code mistake
The Sam Altman leadership profile and the Eddie Haskell comparison
What Mythos is actually selling and who the real target audience is (hint: 15 hyperscalers, not you)
Demis Hassabis, Jensen Huang, and what aligned incentives actually look like at the CEO level
Bottom line: Mythos is not the end of the world. It's a targeted pitch to the largest tech companies on earth, wrapped in just enough danger to make the press do the marketing for free.
About Oliver Belanger:
Chief Operating Officer, CitizenAI. CitizenAI connects individuals to community resources, food pantries, federal programs, and workforce development services. Oliver co-hosts Capacity Overload: AI for Social Work with Jason Padgett.
[email protected] | https://www.linkedin.com/in/oliverbelanger/
Capacity Overload: AI for Social Work
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkwIdRatRCY
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0mXcfpxy0al2vlg3Tteg7M
Work with Jason → [email protected]
LinkedIn → https://www.linkedin.com/in/jason-grant-padgett/
Newsletter → https://www.linkedin.com/build-relation/newsletter-follow?entityUrn=7399599285849346048
AGI Podcast shows:
School's Out Saturdays: AI in education, K-12 through university
Weekly Blitz: AI news every Monday, 30-45 minutes
Data Bytes: Data literacy for business owners
The Vibe: Deep conversations, no time limit
All platforms: https://linktr.ee/AGIPodcast
Follow: Facebook + LinkedIn @AGIPodcast | Instagram @AGISchoolsout | X @NoCodeCAIO
Tools Jason recommends:
MindStudio → https://get.mindstudio.ai/q7n7u5cttkdq
Riverside.fm → https://riverside.sjv.io/e1xyBr
Wispr Flow → https://ref.wisprflow.ai/jason-padgett
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