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Generation AI

Your Essential Weekly Guide to AI in Higher Ed. New episodes drop every Tuesday. 5-star rating on Apple Podcasts.
Episode 103: The End of an Era: Generation AI’s Final Episode and What Comes Next

Episode 103: The End of an Era: Generation AI’s Final Episode and What Comes Next

Ardis Kadiu and JC Bonilla close out their influential podcast series with a candid and reflective conversation on the past two years of demystifying artificial intelligence in higher education.

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November 18, 2025

Episode 102: AI Bubble, Tech Layoffs, and the Race to Agentic Adoption in Higher Ed

Episode 102: AI Bubble, Tech Layoffs, and the Race to Agentic Adoption in Higher Ed

JC Bonilla and Ardis Kadiu dive into the shifting landscape of artificial intelligence—from industry layoffs and OpenAI’s trillion-dollar ambitions to what they’re hearing on the ground at higher education conferences.

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November 4, 2025

Episode 101: Making AI Work: A Buyer’s Guide for Leaders — Part 3

Episode 101: Making AI Work: A Buyer’s Guide for Leaders — Part 3

Ardis Kadiu and Dr. JC Bonilla tackle a critical but often overlooked stage of AI implementation in higher education — the proof of concept (POC).

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October 28, 2025

Episode 100: Making AI Work: A Buyer’s Guide for Leaders — Part 2

Episode 100: Making AI Work: A Buyer’s Guide for Leaders — Part 2

Ardis Kadiu and Dr. JC Bonilla. In this landmark episode, Ardis and JC dive into the second part of their three-part AI Buyer’s Guide series, helping higher ed leaders and enrollment teams make smarter, more strategic decisions about AI investments.

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October 21, 2025

Episode 99: OpenAI Dev Day 2025

Episode 99: OpenAI Dev Day 2025

Ardis Kadiu and Petar Djordjevic take you inside OpenAI's third annual Dev Day in San Francisco, breaking down the major announcements that are reshaping how we interact with AI.

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October 7, 2025

Episode 98: Making AI Work: A Buyer’s Guide for Leaders — Part 1

Episode 98: Making AI Work: A Buyer’s Guide for Leaders — Part 1

In this kickoff to a special three-part series titled "Making AI Work: A Buyer’s Guide for Leaders" on the Generation AI podcast, hosts Ardis Kadiu and Dr. JC Bonilla break down the overwhelming AI landscape in higher education.

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October 7, 2025

Episode 97: Breaking Down Vanderbilt’s AI Playbook

Episode 97: Breaking Down Vanderbilt’s AI Playbook

In this special episode of Generation AI, listeners get an exclusive peek into Vanderbilt University’s ambitious and unconventional approach to integrating AI across campus.

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September 30, 2025

Episode 96: How People Are Actually Using ChatGPT

Episode 96: How People Are Actually Using ChatGPT

Ardis Kadiu and Dr. JC Bonilla dissect OpenAI's study of 1.5 million ChatGPT conversations, uncovering that 70% of usage is now personal rather than work-related.

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September 23, 2025

Episode 95: AI News + Video Generation

Episode 95: AI News + Video Generation

Ardis Kadiu and Dr. JC Bonilla explore the seismic shifts happening across artificial intelligence, digital infrastructure, and creative content generation — all through the lens of higher education.

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September 16, 2025

Episode 94: A16Z's Top 100 AI Apps

Episode 94: A16Z's Top 100 AI Apps

In this episode of Generation AI, hosts JC Bonilla and Ardis Kadiu break down A16Z's fifth annual Top 100 Gen AI Consumer Applications report, revealing how the AI app ecosystem has shifted from experimentation to consolidation.

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September 9, 2025

Episode 93: NotebookLM in action: From PDF to podcast in one click

Episode 93: NotebookLM in action: From PDF to podcast in one click

In this demo, see how Google’s source-grounded AI turns your content into 6-minute video summaries, interactive podcasts, visual mind maps, study guides with quizzes, and chronological timelines—instantly.

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September 2, 2025

Episode 92: 95% AI pilots fail?, Process is the real AI killer, Buying wins 2x over building, Enter the forward deployed engineer

Episode 92: 95% AI pilots fail?, Process is the real AI killer, Buying wins 2x over building, Enter the forward deployed engineer

Ardis Kadiu and JC Bonilla examine the widely misinterpreted MIT report claiming "95% of GenAI pilots fail," exploring why this headline misses the real story.

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August 26, 2025

Episode 91: State of AI Worldwide

Episode 91: State of AI Worldwide

JC Bonilla and Ardis Kadiu step outside the US "AI bubble" to examine how artificial intelligence adoption varies dramatically across the globe.

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August 19, 2025

Episode 90: GPT-5 Review

Episode 90: GPT-5 Review

In this episode, Generation AI hosts Ardis Kadiu and JC Bonilla, joined by Petar Djordjevic, break down OpenAI's biggest release in two years - GPT5.

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August 13, 2025

Episode 89: ChatGPT Study Mode & Google's $1B Education Play: How AI Just Became Your Personal Tutor

Episode 89: ChatGPT Study Mode & Google's $1B Education Play: How AI Just Became Your Personal Tutor

Ardis and JC break down one of the busiest AI news days of the year and focus on what it means for colleges.

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August 12, 2025

Episode 88: Context Engineering - Prompt engineering is dead, long live context engineering

Episode 88: Context Engineering - Prompt engineering is dead, long live context engineering

In this technical deep dive, Generation AI explores the evolution from prompt engineering to context engineering - a critical shift in how we build intelligent AI systems.

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August 5, 2025

Episode 87: AI wins gold at Math Olympiad, America's AI Action Plan, GPT-5 coming soon

Episode 87: AI wins gold at Math Olympiad, America's AI Action Plan, GPT-5 coming soon

Generation AI explores two major AI developments reshaping our future this week!

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July 29, 2025

Episode 86: The Great Content Collapse: How AI Agents Are Killing Clicks and Rewriting Marketing

Episode 86: The Great Content Collapse: How AI Agents Are Killing Clicks and Rewriting Marketing

Ardis Kadiu and JC Bonilla examine how AI agents and new consumer behaviors are creating a "great content collapse" that threatens traditional digital marketing.

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July 22, 2025

Episode 85: Software 3.0 and the Future of Software Development

Episode 85: Software 3.0 and the Future of Software Development

In this technical deep-dive episode, Generation AI hosts Ardis Kadiu and Dr. JC Bonilla unpack Andrej Karpathy's groundbreaking keynote on "Software 3.0" - the third revolution in how we tell computers what to do.

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July 15, 2025

Episode 84: Navigating the AI Talent Wars and the Future of Building in Higher Ed

Episode 84: Navigating the AI Talent Wars and the Future of Building in Higher Ed

In this thought-provoking episode of Generation AI, co-hosts Ardis Kadiu and JC Bonilla unpack one of the most urgent and under-discussed shifts in higher ed and edtech: the AI talent wars.

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July 8, 2025

Episode 83: Engage 2025 Closing Keynote

Episode 83: Engage 2025 Closing Keynote

Generation AI hosts Ardis Kadiu and Dr. JC Bonilla sit down with Dr. Tracy Brundage, President of ABAC in Georgia, for a candid conversation about the real challenges of AI transformation in higher education.

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July 1, 2025

People in this episode

The Host

Ardis Kadiu

Ardis Kadiu is the Founder and CEO of Element451 and hosts GenerationAI.

Interviewee

Chris Federspiel

Chris is the CEO of Blackthorn.io. He has worked in the Salesforce ecosystem since 2011, and founded Blackthorn.io over 4 years ago. Blackthorn.io, a software company that lets users harness the power of Salesforce to plan engaging, revenue-driving events and simplify payment processes for higher education institutions and other industries, now has over 60 customers.

The Host

Dr. JeanCarlo (JC) Bonilla

Dr. JeanCarlo (J.C.) Bonilla is an executive leader in educational technology and artificial intelligence.

Dr. Tracy L. Brundage

Tracy L. Brundage began her tenure as the eleventh president of Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College (ABAC) on August 1, 2022.

Interviewee

Lev Gonick

As the Enterprise Chief Information Officer at Arizona State University, I lead the design and agile management of all enterprise infrastructure, applications, products, services, and analytics at the nation's largest and most innovative university. I have over 30 years of experience in education, technology, and smart city architecture, and I am passionate about enabling and celebrating innovation, collaboration, and productivity through the broadest possible access and utilization of next-generation broadband networks and advanced technologies, including XR and AI. I am proud to be part of ASU's vision to be a comprehensive public research university that is measured not by whom it excludes, but by whom it includes and how they succeed.

Interviewee

Michael Bettersworth

Michael Bettersworth is the Chief Marketing Officer at Texas State Technical College, CEO of the Center for Employability Outcomes, and the Founder of SkillsEngine. For the last 20 years, Bettersworth’s career has focused on the intersection of education and the workforce.

Interviewee

Pamela Luckett-Smith

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