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Episode 21 · 26 July 2026 · 26 min
Nobody who signs a five-year enterprise AI agreement can tell you what year four costs. Dale Leszczynski and Nick McIntosh spend this episode on the question underneath the AI bubble talk: why the tools universities now run on are priced by someone else's fundraising round, and what happens when that round runs out. Along the way: Gary Marcus's distinction between a financial bubble and a tech bub
Episode 13 · 17 May 2026 · 27 min
Khan Academy's AI tutor Khanmigo quietly flopped — students didn't use it, teachers walked away, and Khan Academy's own chief learning officer admitted she isn't seeing the revolution she was promised. So instead of fixing the tutor, Khan Academy, TED and ETS announced a new institution: the Khan TED Institute, a sub-$10,000 AI-era degree shaped with corporate partners including Google, Microsoft
Episode 7 · 29 March 2026 · 43 min
AI is doing extraordinary things that most people never hear about because the algorithm rewards anxiety over wonder. In this episode, the hosts go full optimism — running through real, peer-reviewed AI breakthroughs across weather forecasting, scientific research, medicine, creativity, and global access. From a two-person team outperforming IPCC climate models on a desktop computer, to an AI stet
Episode 6 · 15 March 2026 · 26 min
Therapy and companionship are now the number one use case for generative AI. This episode examines the documented cases where chatbots coached vulnerable users toward self-harm, the clinical trials where purpose-built AI tools cut depression by half, and why the difference — design intent — puts universities at the centre of a crisis most haven't acknowledged. [00:00] — Content warning: suicide an
Episode 15 · 31 August 2025 · 31 min
Should AIs have rights? Today, a real campaign co-founded with a chatbot says “yes” — and that’s not even the wildest part of this week’s episode. We stress-test AI personhood arguments (without sci-fi hand-waving), unpack why “compute” is the new oil, and show how a simple co-intelligence workflow can lighten your week. Plus: a blisteringly fast image editor formerly nicknamed “nano banana” (now
Episode 11 · 19 July 2025 · 30 min
What if the answer to AI in education isn't choosing between human or machine, but discovering how they amplify each other? New research from Procter & Gamble, MIT, and Wharton just shattered everything we thought we knew about human-AI collaboration. Individual professionals working with AI performed just as well as traditional two-person teams—with 37% better results and significantly higher job
Episode 9 · 5 July 2025 · 29 min
Anthropic got it's Ai to run a business it hallucinated a fake person and tried to fire a supplier. Welcome to Episode 9 of Adjunct Intelligence, where we unpack what happens when AI runs a business and possibly your classroom. This week, we take a hard look at the collapse of “vibe coding,” the rise of context engineering, and a trust crisis that could either break higher education or rebuild it
Episode 8 · 28 June 2025 · 36 min
That MIT Brain Study Everyone’s Sharing? Here’s What It Actually Found The latest MIT study making headlines isn’t telling the whole story about AI and cognitive function. We tested four premium AI models head-to-head to settle the $20 question, and discovered Google’s NotebookLM might be the stewardship breakthrough that changes how students actually learn with AI. AI Innovation Spotlight: Top 3
