{"podcast":{"title":"AGI - Advance, Grow, Innovate with AI","slug":"agi-advance-grow-innovate-with-ai-7324503","podcast_index_feed_id":7324503,"rss_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/102cca29c/podcast/rss","website_url":"https://www.linkedin.com/company/agipodcast/","image_url":"https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/staging/podcast_uploaded_nologo/43319327/43319327-1777459123087-d39518f73fd23.jpg","author":"AGI Podcasters","episode_count":136,"summary":"AGI Podcast — Advance, Grow, Innovate with AI For people who got stuck making AI work and educators preparing students for what's next. Our mission is to 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. 3 shows, 1 mission: *Saturdays: School's Out - Educators and students preparing for an AI-driven future schoolsout.agipodcast.ai/ Mondays: The Weekly Blitz - AI news recaps with cohost Julie Koehrer Monthly: The Vibe - Long-form deep dive conversations","last_synced_at":"2026-09-06T14:17:37.604070+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/agi-advance-grow-innovate-with-ai-7324503"},"episode":{"title":"When AI Cuts Entry-Level Jobs, Who Builds the Senior Workforce?","slug":"when-ai-cuts-entry-level-jobs-who-builds-the-senior-workforce","published_at":"2026-08-22T09:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/agi-advance-grow-innovate-with-ai-7324503/when-ai-cuts-entry-level-jobs-who-builds-the-senior-workforce","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/agi-advance-grow-innovate-with-ai-7324503","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/agi-podcasters/episodes/When-AI-Cuts-Entry-Level-Jobs--Who-Builds-the-Senior-Workforce-e3nkr2r","audio_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/102cca29c/podcast/play/124463643/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-7-20%2F430171528-44100-2-b612933ecd93b.mp3","summary":"EPISODE DESCRIPTION Companies 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 learning, opportunities inside small and midsized businesses, and why students need to understand what happens under the hood of an AI model. The conversation also gets personal: sycophantic chatbots can feel easier than human relationships, but easy agreement comes with a cost. ABOUT THE GUEST Shabbir Qutbuddin is an Assistant Vice President at Ivy Tech Community College whose work spans information technology, entrepreneurship, and business education. He helps connect curriculum, employer demand, AI training, and workforce pathways for students across Indiana. GUEST LINKS LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shabbir-qutbuddin/ Ivy Tech Community College: https://www.ivytech.edu/ 2026 Ivy Tech IT Challenge: https://www.ivytech.edu/programs/signature-opportunities-for-students/2026-ivy-tech-it-challenge/ TIME STAMPS 00:00 - From India to Purdue and Ivy Tech 04:05 - Why students booed an AI commencement speech 09:41 - The shrinking entry-level job market 13:27 - Building AI pathways across Indiana 17:56 - Why small businesses need young technical talent 24:48 - Putting AI into the DNA of K-12 curriculum 27:12 - Using AI to learn instead of copy 35:49 - Sycophancy, trust, and human relationships 43:26 - RAG works only when the data work gets done 52:38 - Prompt engineering, cur…","meta_description":"EPISODE DESCRIPTION Companies cannot remove the bottom rung of the career ladder and expect a senior workforce to appear five years later. Shabbir Qutbudd…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3921,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/agi-advance-grow-innovate-with-ai-7324503/episodes/when-ai-cuts-entry-level-jobs-who-builds-the-senior-workforce/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/agi-advance-grow-innovate-with-ai-7324503/when-ai-cuts-entry-level-jobs-who-builds-the-senior-workforce.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}