Higher Intelligence

By Dr. JC Bonilla

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The Higher Intelligence podcast delivers smart takes on AI and EdTech for the next-generation campus. Hosted by EdTech executive, data scientist, and professor Dr. JC Bonilla, the show breaks down the most important AI stories, explains how the technology works, and translates hype into real implications for higher education leaders. Join us twice weekly for clear thinking with no noise — just AI and EdTech, explained for higher education.

Episode Date
AI in the New International Student Landscape
May 12, 2026
Shaping Students for an AI Future
May 05, 2026
New Stories That Signal the Future of Higher Ed
Apr 28, 2026
Field Notes from the AI Frontier
Apr 21, 2026
The AI Operating System
Apr 07, 2026
Closing the Context Gap
Mar 31, 2026
The Gap Between Thinking and Doing
Mar 24, 2026
The Rise of the AI Creative
Mar 17, 2026
AI Power Struggles on Campus and Beyond
Mar 10, 2026
Debrief: AI Skills
Mar 05, 2026
Intelligence Premium Unwinding
Mar 03, 2026
Debrief: Chatbot vs Agent
Feb 26, 2026
Navigating AI Imperfection and Evaluation
Feb 24, 2026
Agentic Workflows and AI’s New Role in Higher Education
Feb 20, 2026
Start Small, Scale Fast
Feb 17, 2026
Making Campus Data Work for AI
Feb 13, 2026
Why Claude Is Winning Over Analysts and Developers in Higher Ed
Feb 03, 2026
How AI Will Redefine Higher Ed in 2026
Jan 27, 2026
Welcome to the Higher Intelligence Podcast
Jan 23, 2026
The End of an Era: Generation AI’s Final Episode and What Comes Next
Nov 18, 2025
AI Bubble, Tech Layoffs, and the Race to Agentic Adoption in Higher Ed
Nov 04, 2025
Making AI Work: A Buyer’s Guide for Leaders — Part 3
Oct 28, 2025
Making AI Work: A Buyer’s Guide for Leaders — Part 2
Oct 21, 2025
OpenAI Dev Day 2025: Apps SDK, Agent Kit, Sora 2, ChatGPT as operating system
Oct 14, 2025
Making AI Work: A Buyer’s Guide for Leaders — Part 1
Oct 07, 2025
Breaking Down Vanderbilt’s AI Playbook
Sep 30, 2025
How People Are Actually Using ChatGPT
Sep 23, 2025
From $12 TikToks to $10M Influencers: Oracle Surge, Anthropic Settlement, Google's Veo 3 & Nano Banana Revolution
Sep 16, 2025
A16Z's Top 100 AI Apps (5th edition), Google's 4-product surge, vibe coding goes mainstream
Sep 09, 2025
NotebookLM in Action: From PDF to Podcast in one click, plus mind maps, FAQs & video summaries
Sep 02, 2025
95% AI pilots fail?, Process is the real AI killer, Buying wins 2x over building, Enter the forward deployed engineer
Aug 26, 2025
State of AI Worldwide — consumer vs enterprise, pilots vs scale, culture and policy set the pace
Aug 19, 2025
GPT-5 review: what is it good for, reasoning on by default, hallucinations down, prompt rules change
Aug 13, 2025
ChatGPT Study Mode & Google's $1B Education Play: How AI Just Became Your Personal Tutor
Aug 12, 2025
Prompt engineering is dead, long live context engineering
Aug 05, 2025
America's AI Action Plan, AI wins gold at Math Olympiad, GPT-5 coming soon
Jul 29, 2025
The Great Content Collapse: How AI Agents Are Killing Clicks and Rewriting Marketing
Jul 22, 2025
Software 3.0 and the Future of Software Development
Jul 15, 2025
Ardis Closes an Era at Element451, Returns to Builder Mode as AI Reshapes Tech
Jul 08, 2025
From AI features to AI teammates, exponential vs incremental change, student satisfaction metrics, culture transformation
Jul 01, 2025
Engage Summit 2025 Preview Special
Jun 23, 2025
CEO insights on AI transformation, Speed as the new moat, OpenAI hits $10B, Meta buys Scale AI, Apple's AI struggles
Jun 17, 2025
AGI Timeline 2029: What Happens When AI Surpasses Human Intelligence?
Jun 10, 2025
Dear Class of 2025: You're Competing with AI for Your First Job
Jun 03, 2025
Windows goes agent-first, Google AI Mode lands, Veo 3 kills Hollywood, Ive + OpenAI $6.5B deal, Claude 4 hits
May 27, 2025
AI Didn't Break Education - It Exposed the Cracks
May 20, 2025
Model Context Protocol (MCP): Making AI Agents Talk to Your Data
May 13, 2025
The Vibe Coding Revolution
May 06, 2025
EO on AI Education, Hollywood's AI Validation, and OpenAI's O3 Visual Reasoning Power
Apr 29, 2025
ASU+GSV Summit 2025 Recap - Learning at the Speed of Light
Apr 22, 2025
ASU's AI Strategy, Digital Workforce, and the End of Frankenstein Tech
Apr 15, 2025
ChatGPT image magic changes design forever, Gemini 2.5 raises the bar, MCP connects everything, Claude for Education brings AI to classrooms
Apr 08, 2025
AI & Admissions: Making Fast, Fair Decisions in Higher Ed
Apr 01, 2025
The State of Personal AI Agents: Manus, Deep Research, Perplexity, Grok, Lovable, Cursor, Lindy.ai, and the Future of Autonomous Workflows
Mar 25, 2025
Goodbye Chatbots, Hello Voice AI Agents
Mar 18, 2025
AI Trust, Eval Frameworks, and Why Data Quality Matters
Mar 17, 2025
FERPA & AI: What Higher Ed Needs to Know
Mar 11, 2025
AI Agents are Here: What this Means for Higher Education (Engage AI Summit Keynote)
Mar 04, 2025
Grok-3, Reasoning Models, and the Path to AI Agents
Feb 25, 2025
AGI Timeline: OpenAI's Bold Claims Meet Anthropic's Economic Index
Feb 18, 2025
AI's Sputnik moment + Deepseek, CSU partners with OpenAI, ChatGP Operator + Deep Research
Feb 11, 2025
Moving from Assistants to an AI Workforce
Feb 04, 2025
Multi-Agent AI Systems
Jan 28, 2025
Building the Agentic AI Framework
Jan 21, 2025
AI Mastery in 2025: Skills, Tools & Practical Steps to Adoption for Higher Ed
Jan 14, 2025
12 Days of OpenAI - o1/o3 models, $200 Pro plan, Sora, Apple Intelligence, Projects + Canvas in ChatGPT, Search, Voice w/Video mode, 1-800-ChatGPT
Jan 07, 2025
AI Predictions and Trends for 2025
Dec 17, 2024
Element451 lands $175M, signals AI's key role in higher ed
Dec 10, 2024
How Do Models Get Smarter? Pre-training, Fine-tuning, Long Context, Real-time Reasoning
Dec 03, 2024
AI vs. Application Fraud: Protecting Admissions from Digital Deception
Nov 26, 2024
Beyond the Limits: How AI Models Are Redefining Capabilities
Nov 19, 2024
Post election AI agenda, Chegg's ChatGPT nightmare, Tech consolidation ahead
Nov 12, 2024
Gen AI Powered Search - How will ChatGPT Search and Perplexity change SEO?
Nov 05, 2024
JC Returns to Element451 + Higher Ed's AI Reality Check as 91% of CTOs Feel Unprepared
Oct 29, 2024
Catching Rockets, Self-Driving Taxis, and Supercomputers: Elon Musk's Vision
Oct 22, 2024
OpenAI's voice API, Notebook LM, Meta's AR glasses wow, Google's $120M AI education push ALT: From Voice Interfaces to Virtual Reality
Oct 15, 2024
Why AI Agents Are the Future of Software
Oct 08, 2024
State of AI Adoption in HigherEd: Insights from USG AI Summit
Oct 01, 2024
Synthetic Data: The Secret Weapon for Smarter AI
Sep 24, 2024
AI Reasoning: How Machines Think and Learn
Sep 17, 2024
OpenAI's o1 Model: A Leap Forward in AI Reasoning
Sep 13, 2024
Top 100 GenAI Apps: ChatGPT dominates, Perplexity rises, ByteDance pushes AI, dating apps get smarter
Sep 10, 2024
How Universities are Integrating AI Today | Why Personalization is the Key to Student Retention | Ethical Challenges in Higher Ed AI | How AI is Reshaping the Job Market for Graduate | Preparing for AI-Driven World with Brian Piper @ U of Rochester
Sep 03, 2024
AI Agents in Action: Building Proactive AI Systems for Higher Ed (part 2)
Aug 27, 2024
AI Agents 101: The Building Blocks of Intelligent Student Engagement (part 1)
Aug 27, 2024
AI in Cybersecurity: Inside the CrowdStrike Crash
Aug 20, 2024
Navigating AI Vendor Selection in Higher Ed
Aug 13, 2024
Llama 3.1 Release, AI Avatars with AI Studio, Meta's Open Source Vision, Segment Anything 2 Model (SAM) Release
Aug 06, 2024
Creating Interactive Apps for Better Teaching with Claude 3.5
Jul 30, 2024
The 5 Levels of AI: From Chatbots to Organizational Intelligence
Jul 23, 2024
AI That Listens and Speaks: A Look at New Voice Models
Jul 16, 2024
How AI is Changing Travel
Jul 09, 2024
Mapping the Mind of a LLM
Jul 02, 2024
Rethinking Ads and Monetization in the Age of AI Search
Jun 18, 2024
The Science Behind Viral Content: Cracking the Social Media Code
Jun 11, 2024
Copilot for Your PC, Gemini Everywhere, and the Death of SEO
Jun 04, 2024
OpenAI Launches GPT-4o: Faster, Cheaper, and Free for All
May 28, 2024
AI at Work Is Here
May 21, 2024
A Day in the Life with AI
May 14, 2024
Custom GPTs are the New Productivity Hack for Enterprises
May 07, 2024
Rethinking University Websites: The Future of AI-Powered Knowledge Discovery
Apr 30, 2024
Meta's AI Strategy: From Open Source Models to Integrated Experiences
Apr 23, 2024
How ASU is Embracing AI to Lead the Way
Apr 22, 2024
Business Models for AI: Who Pays for the Revolution?
Apr 16, 2024
Leading with AI: Strategic Insights for Higher Ed CMOs
Apr 15, 2024
Embracing AI Without Fear: Preparing Students for a Tech-Driven Future
Apr 14, 2024
Will AI take our jobs?
Apr 09, 2024
AI Assistants: Your New Team Members in Higher Ed
Apr 02, 2024
Microsoft's New Acquisition, GPT-5's Summer Debut, and NVIDIA's Game-Changer Blackwell
Mar 28, 2024
From SQL to AI: Transforming Your Technical Team for the Future
Mar 26, 2024
The Evolution of Dashboards: From Static to AI-Powered Insights
Mar 19, 2024
Beyond the Hype: A Deep Dive into the Inner Workings of Conversational AI Chatbots
Mar 12, 2024
Google's Image AI Bias, Stable Diffusion 3, New video models, LLMs (Llama3, Gemma, Mistral)
Mar 05, 2024
Predictive AI: The Art and Science of Student Engagement
Feb 27, 2024
OpenAI’s SORA Transforms Video Production and Google introduces Gemini 1.5
Feb 22, 2024
AI on Your Wrist, in Your Eyes, and On Your Mind: The Future of Wearables
Feb 20, 2024
AI Touchdown: The Future Showcased in Super Bowl LVIII Commercials
Feb 15, 2024
Deepfakes Unmasked: The Art, Science, and Ethics of Synthetic Media
Feb 13, 2024
From Bard to Gemini: Google's Next-Gen AI Leap Forward
Feb 09, 2024
The Future of Online Search: From Keywords to Conversations
Feb 06, 2024
How AI Rethinks Grades and Bias in Admissions: From GPA to GPT (Grade Point Trajectory)
Jan 30, 2024
The Battle for LLM Supremacy: Open Source vs. Closed Source
Jan 23, 2024
The App Store of AI: Rise of Custom Bots
Jan 16, 2024
AI and Journalism Clash: The New York Times vs. OpenAI Lawsuit and Its Implications
Jan 11, 2024
AI Toolkit Essentials: Key Tools and Skills for 2024 Success
Jan 08, 2024
AI in the Eyes of Gen Z: Digital Natives Reshaping the Future
Jan 02, 2024
AI in 2024: Bold Predictions and Emerging Trends
Dec 19, 2023
AI in 2023: A Game-Changing Year in Review
Dec 19, 2023