The Silicon Prairie Weighs In on Silicon Valley with Derek Weinberg

What should we teach our kids when the future of work keeps moving? And how much freedom should we give the AI tools already helping us through the day?

Derek Weinberg joins Jason Padgett for a conversation from the Silicon Prairie about where Silicon Valley is taking us. We start with Indiana's AI community and work our way through proactive assistants, education, privacy, and the question of who gets to decide what AI should value.

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Advance, Grow, and Innovate with AI

Season 2, Episode 2

WHAT YOU'LL TAKE AWAY

• Clear communication and the ability to examine your own thinking are practical AI skills.

• Preparing students for their future means thinking beyond chatbot access and prompt lessons.

• The habits we build with AI may carry over into how we treat people.

• More capable assistants raise harder questions about permission, privacy, and control.

Derek makes a case that stays with me: the AI mistake we should worry about might be completely innocent. A tool can pursue a reasonable instruction in a way nobody anticipated.

We also compare notes on the assistants we're using, question the industry's timelines, and turn to Battlestar Galactica and Blade Runner to think through the futures we're building.

TRY THIS

Choose one task you want to hand to AI. Define success, give it the context it needs, and decide where it should stop and ask you. Clear expectations matter whether you're working with a person or a machine.

CONNECT WITH DEREK WEINBERG

Derek joins Jason from Indiana's business and analytics community and brings his experience teaching in the Kelley Evening MBA program.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/derekjweinberg

Fox-Current: https://foxcurrent.substack.com/

RESOURCES MENTIONED

Derek's article, The Metacognitive Divide:

https://foxcurrent.substack.com/p/the-metacognitive-divide

CEOs of Indiana Corporate Partnership:

https://www.cicpindiana.com/

CONNECT WITH JASON PADGETT

Jason Padgett | AI Solutions Architect | Co-Founder, Wooden Boy Industries | Host, AGI Podcast | AI Adoption, LLM Systems & Human-AI Workflows

AGI - Advance Grow and Innovate with AI Podcast Network

🌐 https://schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/

CoFounder, Wooden Boy Industries

🌐 https://woodenboyindustriesai.com/

Chief AI Officer, Chakra AI Solutions

🌐 https://chakrasolutions.ai/

📧 jason@agipodcast.ai

PRODUCTION TOOLS

Riverside

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