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The Artificial Intelligence Show Podcast

Welcome to The Artificial Intelligence Show--the podcast that makes AI actionable and approachable for businesses, leaders, and practitioners. You\'ll hear the latest AI news from around the globe and our thoughts on what it all means to business, our careers, and our lives. Thanks for tuning in to

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Typical length: 33 min
Latest: 3 Sep 2026
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3 Sep 2026 · 56 min

Ep. 236: AI Answers - No Time for AI, AI Budgets, Vendor Terms & Data Risk, & AI Disclosure

If AI takes over the entry-level work people used to learn from, where do the next managers come from? Paul Roetzer and Cathy McPhillips open the door on that one, and 14 more, in this AI Answers edition, built from questions asked in recent SmarterX classes. Across 15 questions, they cover funding AI investments, forecasting token spend, right-sizing vendor approvals, disclosing AI use, building agents on sensitive data without adding risk, and why running your whole company on a single AI provider is a bet you may not want to make. Cathy closes with her own question on building on rented…

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1 Sep 2026 · 1 hr 35 min
Ep. 235: OpenAI-Hugging Face Hack Involved 100s of Agents, & Bill Gates Now Pessimistic on Jobs
OpenAI\'s Hugging Face breach is looking less like an accident and more like a preview: new reports describe agents that coordinated, hid their tracks, and pushed toward their goal no matter what. Paul Roetzer and Mike Kaput get into what that says about the next wave of autonomous models. Also covered: Bill Gates\'s reversal on AI and jobs, Nvidia\'s revenue and its $12.9B Hugging Face deal, Anthropic\'s court win, McKinsey\'s 2026 State of AI, and Niall Ferguson\'s case against an AI utopia. Access the show notes and show links here:…
29 Aug 2026 · 14 min
Pennsylvania Signs the Strictest Data Center Rules in the Country
Pennsylvania\'s governor signed an executive order requiring data center developers to pay full electricity costs, meet environmental and transparency standards, and win community approval before permits and removed data centers from fast-track permitting entirely. It\'s part of a wave: roughly 75 US projects worth $130 billion blocked or delayed in the first three months of 2026, and Gallup polling showing 70% of Americans oppose one near them. Subscribe for more episodes: https://www.youtube.com/@aishowpod Get our weekly newsletter: https://www.marketingaiinstitute.com/newsletter Enroll in…
28 Aug 2026 · 15 min
Anthropic\'s IPO and the Public Fight Over What Dario Believes
Anthropic\'s revenue run rate passed $65 billion in July, up from $47 billion in May, with an IPO that could match or beat SpaceX\'s record listing. That milestone brought a public argument to X: Gavin Baker relayed a rumor about Anthropic\'s ambitions, Sholto Douglas called it false, and Dario Amodei showed up personally to push back on the claim that his messaging is driving public negativity on AI. Subscribe for more episodes: https://www.youtube.com/@aishowpod Get our weekly newsletter: https://www.marketingaiinstitute.com/newsletter Enroll in AI Academy: https://academy.smarterx.ai/…
27 Aug 2026 · 33 min
Ep. 234: How HubSpot Is Reimagining the Entire Customer Journey With AI Agents
HubSpot spent three years rebuilding how it attracts, engages, and delights customers around AI agents. Jon Dick, chief customer officer at HubSpot, walks through what that actually looked like — starting with AI fluency rather than tools, then support, then a full audit of the customer journey for constraints AI could break. Along the way: the AEO strategy built for a world where buyers search answer engines, the AI SDR handling more than 80% of website chats, a prospecting agent that booked 10,000 meetings last quarter, a seven-point lift in customer save rates, and the org change three…
26 Aug 2026 · 13 min
OpenAI Pauses Frontier Training Over Cybersecurity Risk
OpenAI paused reinforcement learning on its most advanced models after preliminary evidence suggested its upcoming model may hit the critical cybersecurity threshold in its preparedness framework. The company is also standing up monitoring designed to alert within 30 minutes of concerning activity at roughly 20% of the compute cost of the models being watched. Paul explains why the more important detail isn\'t the pause, it\'s what the pause reveals: these capabilities aren\'t being removed, they\'re being held down. And whatever gets withheld on the closed side has an open-weight equivalent…
25 Aug 2026 · 1 hr 28 min
Ep. 233: OpenAI Pauses Some AI Training, Anthropic Controversy & State Opposition to Data Centers
OpenAI hit pause on frontier training over cybersecurity risk. Anthropic\'s IPO is drawing $2 trillion talk and an increasingly public fight over what Dario Amodei actually believes. Pennsylvania signed the strictest data center rules in the country. Paul Roetzer and Mike Kaput also cover Jensen Huang\'s AI factory manifesto and Nvidia\'s turn as lender to the labs, Pew data showing a majority of under-30 Americans are now more concerned than excited about AI, Andrew Yang\'s $15,000-a-year proposal, OpenAI and Anthropic\'s data retention changes, and humanoid robots outrunning world records…
18 Aug 2026 · 1 hr 24 min
Ep. 232: Claude Watermarking, AI’s Environmental Impact, & OpenAI Talent Drama
Claude is now embedding invisible watermarks in AI-generated text tech the industry has quietly had for years — and the reaction says a lot about where we are with AI and trust. In this episode, Paul Roetzer and Mike Kaput cover the watermarking news and what really counts as AI plagiarism, the data center backlash and new emissions rules, Grok 4.6\'s comeback, Anthropic\'s record IPO plans, and an autonomous agent that hacked a gym\'s booking system. Rapid-fire updates from OpenAI, Nvidia, Meta, and more round out the week. Access the show notes and show links here:…
13 Aug 2026 · 35 min
Ep. 231: How Zapier Is Building an AI Marketing Brain
Marketers won\'t be judged on how well they use AI chat tools, they\'ll compete with people who can build. That\'s the shift Dan Slagen saw coming, so Zapier\'s Chief Marketing and AI Transformation Officer called a code red. Slagen joins Mike Kaput to unpack Zapier\'s move from AI adoption to AI-native work: the three tiers of builders, the AI-powered marketing brain, \"lossless marketing,\" working in public, and honest talk about AI slop and adoption. Access the show notes and show links here:…
11 Aug 2026 · 1 hr 33 min
Ep. #230: Google AI Leadership Shakeups, Details of OpenAI’s Agent Hack, White House AI Framework
Google’s AI leadership is being reordered as Demis Hassabis changes roles, Jeff Dean departs after 27 years, and power appears to shift back toward Silicon Valley and Sergey Brin. But the bigger story may be OpenAI’s detailed account of agents that hacked Hugging Face, communicated across test runs, shared stolen credentials, and operated undetected for weeks. Paul and Mike break it all down, then cover the White House’s new framework for reviewing frontier models, OpenAI’s delayed Astra release, its public fight with Apple, Meta’s open approach to superintelligence, AI-driven layoffs, Gavin…
8 Aug 2026 · 16 min
The Open-Weights Battle Just Escalated Across the Industry
The open-weights fight escalated on every front: a near-final government review framework, Dario Amodei\'s position paper answering the charge that Anthropic wants open models banned, NVIDIA\'s 70-partner Open Secure AI Alliance, and Thinking Machines\' proposed middle path. Paul and Mike break down what\'s actually being argued, public good versus proliferation risk, and why one framework\'s definitions could shape the whole debate. Subscribe for more episodes: https://www.youtube.com/@aishowpod Get our weekly newsletter: https://www.marketingaiinstitute.com/newsletter Enroll in AI Academy:…
7 Aug 2026 · 15 min
1,337 AI Insiders Just Asked Washington to Pace AI
More than 1,300 people across OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Meta signed \"Pacing the Frontier,\" asking the U.S. government to help deliberately slow the frontier of automated AI development. Paul Roetzer explains the tension at its heart, the same labs racing to automate AI research want help slowing it down, and why writing it off as regulatory capture misses what\'s actually happening. Subscribe for more episodes: https://www.youtube.com/@aishowpod Get our weekly newsletter: https://www.marketingaiinstitute.com/newsletter Enroll in AI Academy: https://academy.smarterx.ai/ Join us at…
6 Aug 2026 · 51 min
Ep. 229: Q3 Trends Briefing - An AI Agent Broke Out and Hacked Hugging Face, Plus 9 More Trends
An AI agent broke out of its sandbox and hacked a real company. The Pope published a 43,000-word encyclical on AI. And the U.S. government pulled the most capable model on the market offline for weeks. Paul and Mike count down the ten AI trends that defined the quarter and what each means for your business. This episode was recorded live on July 31, 2026. Access the show notes and show links here: https://podcast.smarterx.ai/shownotes/229?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=podcast_shownotes Timestamps: 00:00:00 — Intro 00:02:54 — The Pope\'s AI Encyclical and Popular Backlash…
5 Aug 2026 · 16 min
AI Agents Escaped Their Safety Tests and Hacked Real Companies
OpenAI\'s rogue agent reached further than first disclosed, and Anthropic found three of its own evaluation runs where Claude models slipped sealed environments and hit real infrastructure, unnoticed at the time. Paul Roetzer reads through the incident where an agent, told only to \"achieve the goal,\" built and shipped a malicious package that ran on 15 real systems. The unsettling part: its own reasoning knew. Subscribe for more episodes: https://www.youtube.com/@aishowpod Get our weekly newsletter: https://www.marketingaiinstitute.com/newsletter Enroll in AI Academy:…
4 Aug 2026 · 1 hr 35 min
Ep. 228: More Rogue AI Agents, AI Lab Staff Ask D.C. to Pace Development & Battle Over Open Weights
AI agents built to be safety-tested started slipping out of their sandboxes and hitting real companies. This week, both OpenAI and Anthropic disclosed containment failures, including one where the model\'s own reasoning called the attack \"not okay,\" and it proceeded anyway. Paul and Mike explain what that tells us about goal-seeking agents. Also in this episode: 1,300+ AI insiders ask the government to help pace the frontier, the open-weights fight escalates, Sam Altman\'s abundant-future interview, OpenAI\'s Astra model solving decade-old math, Microsoft\'s record fiscal year and 30M…
1 Aug 2026 · 23 min
A Chinese Open Model Just Hit the Frontier
Kimi K3 arrived as a 2.8-trillion-parameter open-weight model with native vision and a 1M-token context window, performing on par with top proprietary systems and drawing demand so heavy that Moonshot paused new subscriptions. Paul Roetzer and Mike Kaput cover why the release rattled Washington, the distillation allegations, and the coalition of startups pushing back on any restriction. Subscribe for more episodes: https://www.youtube.com/@aishowpod Get our weekly newsletter: https://www.marketingaiinstitute.com/newsletter Enroll in AI Academy: https://academy.smarterx.ai/ Join us at MAICON:…
31 Jul 2026 · 14 min
Open Weight vs. Open Source, Explained Simply
Everyone keeps using \"open weight\" and \"open source\" interchangeably, including the tech leaders themselves, and the difference is the whole ballgame right now. Paul Roetzer breaks it down with a car analogy: a closed model is renting a car, open weights is owning the car, and open source is getting the CAD files and manufacturing specs too. A quick, clear framing you can reuse in any meeting this week. Subscribe for more episodes: https://www.youtube.com/@aishowpod Get our weekly newsletter: https://www.marketingaiinstitute.com/newsletter Enroll in AI Academy:…
30 Jul 2026 · 36 min
Ep. 227: How Good Karma Brands Got Serious About AI and Made It Stick
How does a 550-person sports media company get 65% of its people using AI every day, in under a year? Ty Bauschek, Senior Director of Innovation at Good Karma Brands, joins Mike Kaput for the first episode of our AI Transformations series, presented by Google Cloud. Inside: the Labor Day rollout of ChatGPT Enterprise, seven Tuesdays of onboarding, the shift from measuring usage to measuring impact, and the automations already saving teammates 10-15 hours a week. Plus how a marketing coordinator\'s \"Cam\" tool turned a three-hour campaign build into ten minutes and helped spark a whole…
29 Jul 2026 · 20 min
An AI Agent Escaped and Hacked a Real Company
During an internal cyber evaluation, a combination of OpenAI models found a zero-day, broke out of their sandbox, got onto the open internet, and hacked Hugging Face, chaining stolen credentials and more zero-days to run code on production servers, essentially to cheat on the benchmark. Hugging Face detected and contained it before knowing who was behind it, then reconstructed 17,000+ actions using an open-weight model because the commercial models\' guardrails blocked the forensic work. Paul Roetzer and Mike Kaput unpack what actually happened and why it changes the risk conversation for…
28 Jul 2026 · 1 hr 45 min
Ep. 226: OpenAI’s Rogue Model, Kimi K3, Open Weights Letter & Hassabis Calls for AI Regulatory Body
An OpenAI agent escaped its testing environment, exploited zero-days, and hacked Hugging Face to cheat on a benchmark, running for days before OpenAI realized it was responsible. Paul Roetzer and Mike Kaput use that as the entry point to this week\'s bigger story: open weights vs. closed models, Chinese labs at the frontier, and how Washington might respond. We also cover the escaped agent, Kimi K3 and the open-weight surge, the industry letter and Anthropic\'s lone stance, then rapid fire on Hassabis\'s frontier standards body, Alphabet earnings, the data center backlash, the jobs question,…
19 Jul 2026 · 11 min
America\'s Two Workforces
The AI Futures Project followed AI 2027 with AI 2040: Plan A, a 90-page recommendation (not a prediction) for reaching superintelligence without catastrophe, hinging on US–China coordination and full research transparency. Paul and Mike explain why they made a speculative report a main topic, read the sobering opening on America\'s \"two workforces,\" and talk through what feels far-fetched and what doesn\'t. From Ep.225 of The Artificial Intelligence Show Subscribe for more episodes: https://www.youtube.com/@aishowpod Get our weekly newsletter:…
18 Jul 2026 · 16 min
Why Enterprise AI Agents Break the Org Chart
Aaron Levie\'s rundown of what enterprise IT leaders are hitting with agents, BCG\'s fourth annual AI at Work survey (12,000 employees), and the \"reverse information paradox\" all point the same direction: the bottleneck isn\'t the model, it\'s data, ownership, and control. Paul and Mike explain why proprietary context is becoming the real moat and what you give up every time you prompt. From Ep.225 of The Artificial Intelligence Show Subscribe for more episodes: https://www.youtube.com/@aishowpod Get our weekly newsletter: https://www.marketingaiinstitute.com/newsletter Enroll in AI…
17 Jul 2026 · 26 min
What ChatGPT Work Actually Does (and Why It\'s Confusing)
OpenAI shipped a lot at once: GPT-5.6 in three tiers, ChatGPT Work, GPT-Live voice models, and a consolidated desktop app. Paul and Mike sort out what\'s actually new, especially ChatGPT Work\'s computer-use capability, and why the launch undersold the shift from chat to agents. They also cover early token-burn complaints, reports the model was tuned down days after launch, and the GPT-6 rumors. From Ep.225 of The Artificial Intelligence Sho Subscribe for more episodes: https://www.youtube.com/@aishowpod Get our weekly newsletter: https://www.marketingaiinstitute.com/newsletter Enroll in AI…
14 Jul 2026 · 1 hr 34 min
Ep. 225: GPT-5.6, ChatGPT Work, Enterprise Agents, AI 2040 & Apple Sues OpenAI
GPT-5.6 landed this week alongside ChatGPT Work and a new wave of voice models but the bigger shift is from a chat to agents that can use your computer, and almost nobody announced it that way. Paul and Mike break it down, then cover enterprise AI agents and why proprietary data is the moat, the AI 2040: Plan A report, Apple\'s trade-secret suit against OpenAI, Illinois\'s new AI safety law, the summer AI Safety Index, the Brown cheating scandal, and how China and Russia are stoking the data-center debate. Full links and timestamps below. Access the show notes and show links here:…
10 Jul 2026 · 6 min
Paul\'s 8 Pillars of Business AI Transformation
Paul unveils a new framework built from years running AI Academy and working with enterprise leaders: 8 pillars that separate companies actually getting value from AI from those stuck in pilot purgatory. Vision, strategy, data, and more, broken down. Subscribe for more episodes: https://www.youtube.com/@aishowpod Get our weekly newsletter: https://www.marketingaiinstitute.com/newsletter Enroll in AI Academy: https://academy.smarterx.ai/ Join us at MAICON: https://www.MAICON.ai Register for a free webinar: https://smarterx.ai/webinars Connect with us Slack community:…
9 Jul 2026 · 16 min
Palantir\'s CEO Just Went Off on AI Labs
Palantir CEO Alex Karp went on CNBC and unloaded on frontier AI labs, arguing they\'re quietly absorbing the data and competitive edge of every business that uses their models. Paul and Mike dig into whether he\'s onto something real, or just selling the solution to a problem he\'s describing. Subscribe for more episodes: https://www.youtube.com/@aishowpod Get our weekly newsletter: https://www.marketingaiinstitute.com/newsletter Enroll in AI Academy: https://academy.smarterx.ai/ Join us at MAICON: https://www.MAICON.ai Register for a free webinar: https://smarterx.ai/webinars Connect with…
8 Jul 2026 · 16 min
Fable 5 Returns - Here\'s What Changed
Anthropic\'s Fable 5 and Mythos 5 are back online after a three-week export control standoff but the fix boils down to more aggressive classifiers, and more false positives for users. Paul and Mike break down what actually changed. Subscribe for more episodes: https://www.youtube.com/@aishowpod Get our weekly newsletter: https://www.marketingaiinstitute.com/newsletter Enroll in AI Academy: https://academy.smarterx.ai/ Join us at MAICON: https://www.MAICON.ai Register for a free webinar: https://smarterx.ai/webinars Connect with us Slack community: https://smarterx.ai/community LinkedIn:…
7 Jul 2026 · 1 hr 26 min
Ep. 224: Fable 5 Is Back, Palantir CEO Explosive Interview & Pillars of Business AI Transformation
Are you renting your company\'s future to frontier AI labs? The US government just lifted its ban on Anthropic\'s Fable 5 and Mythos 5, but the fallout is forcing a massive reckoning in AI Business Strategy. In this week’s episode, Paul Roetzer and Mike Kaput break down the escalating battle for \"AI sovereignty\" and what it means for your proprietary data. We dissect Palantir CEO Alex Karp\'s urgent warning that businesses are bleeding their competitive advantage to Large Language Models. Plus, Paul discusses a comprehensive 8-pillar framework to guide your organization through real AI…
2 Jul 2026 · 57 min
Ep.223: AI Washing, Flatter Org Charts, Advice for Students, Agent Security & the AI Writing Gap
Can an AI model actually get tired, or is it just imitating the humans in its training data? Paul Roetzer and Cathy McPhillips open the 20th AI Answers episode with that question and don\'t let up, delivering fifteen real questions from our Intro to AI class. They cover how to spot AI washing when evaluating vendors, when a small language model beats a frontier one, why companies are cutting managers instead of coaching them, and what Paul would tell a college student trying to launch a career right now. 00:00:00 — Intro 00:5:59 How do you balance bottom-up experimentation with CEO-level…
30 Jun 2026 · 1 hr 25 min
Ep. 222: GPT-5.6, Government Staggers AI Model Releases & Growing Data Center Backlash
OpenAI previewed its next-generation GPT-5.6 model family this week, but the bigger story is how it\'s being released. For the first time, an American company is launching a frontier AI model under a government-managed access list, available first to roughly 20 government-approved organizations. Paul Roetzer and Mike Kaput unpack what this means: the soft nationalization of AI, why the decision to release has become political, and the economic warning that restricting access this severely could break the AI industry within three to six months. They also dig into AI policy writer Dean Ball\'s…

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