Super Data Science: ML & AI Podcast with Jon Krohn
Jon Krohn
The latest machine learning, A.I., and data career topics from across both academia and industry are brought to you by host Dr. Jon Krohn on the Super Data Science Podcast. As the quantity of data on our planet doubles every couple of years and with this trend set to continue for decades to come, there's an unprecedented opportunity for you to make a meaningful impact in your lifetime. In conversation with the biggest names in the data science industry, Jon cuts through hype to fuel that professional impact.Whether you're curious about getting started in a data career or you're a deep technical expert, whether you'd like to understand what A.I. is or you'd like to integrate more data-driven processes into your business, we have inspiring guests and lighthearted conversation for you to enjoy.We cover tools, techniques, and implementation tricks across data collection, databases, analytics, predictive modeling, visualization, software engineering, real-world applications, commercialization, and entrepreneurship − everything you need to crush it with data science.
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Nov 21, 2025 • 6min
942: Odds of AGI by 2040? LEAP Expert Forecasts and Workforce Implications
What’s on the horizon for AI? Jon Krohn wades through opinions from more than experts, curated by the Longitudinal Expert AI Panel (LEAP), about what we can expect from the industry. From estimates on AI-assisted workers through energy consumption to AI performance in highly skilled domains, find out just how much LEAP thinkers believe AI is permeating our daily work and life in this Five-Minute Friday.
Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/942
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Nov 18, 2025 • 1h 6min
941: Multi-Agent Human Societies, with Dr. Vijoy Pandey
Vijoy Pandey imagines a bold new society in which agents and humans make scientific discoveries and complete physical tasks together, and he tells Jon Krohn about his work at AGNTCY, Cisco’s open-source platform for the Internet of Agents. Listen to the episode to hear Vijoy Pandey talk about how a future society in which multi-agents and humans interact may be a real possibility, what TCP/IP is, how to find trustworthy AI agents, and how to get your hands on AGNTCY today!
This episode is brought to you by the Dell, by Intel, by Fabi and by Gurobi.
Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/941
Interested in sponsoring a SuperDataScience Podcast episode? Email natalie@superdatascience.com for sponsorship information.
In this episode you will learn:
(02:37) All about AGNTCY
(12:04) How an agent-human society might function
(15:19) What an “Internet of Agents” means
(27:17) The future of access management
(41:39) How to trust AI agents
(48:49) How to get started with AGNTCY
Nov 14, 2025 • 43min
940: In Case You Missed It in October 2025
Jon Krohn curates a selection of clips from the month that was. Hear from the orchestrators of an expanding AI universe in this episode of In Case You Missed It, with news, views and groundbreaking ideas from Sheamus McGovern, Jerry Yurchisin, Stephanie Hare, Larissa Schneider, and Adrian Kosowsky. We cover baby dragons, the Hippocratic Oath, and, of course, all the latest in artificial intelligence!
Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/940
Interested in sponsoring a SuperDataScience Podcast episode? Email natalie@superdatascience.com for sponsorship information.
Nov 11, 2025 • 1h 6min
939: Mixture-of-Experts and State-Space Models on Edge Devices, with Tyler Cox and Shirish Gupta
State space models (SSMs), granite models, and Mamba: Dell’s Tyler Cox and Shirish Gupta discuss with Jon Krohn why state space models can process information so efficiently, and how Dell’s AI factory helps enterprises manage custom AI workloads. Hear the latest on the Dell Pro AI Studio and Dell’s partnerships with IBM and Hugging Face in this episode.
This episode is brought to you by the Trainium2, the latest AI chip from AWS and by Gurobi.
Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/939
Interested in sponsoring a SuperDataScience Podcast episode? Email natalie@superdatascience.com for sponsorship information.
In this episode you will learn:
(02:58) Dell Pro AI Studio news
(23:17) How Dell manages interoperability
(28:08) About the Dell/IBM granite models
(47:38) How to troubleshoot AI tools
(52:36) How Dell performs against benchmarks
Nov 7, 2025 • 19min
938: Frontier AI Agents for Data Science, with Sphinx’s Rohan Kodialam
Jon Krohn speaks to Rohan Kodialam, Cofounder and CEO of Sphinx, the company that redefines how machine intelligence reasons data with frontier AI. In this Feature Friday, Jon and Rohan discuss the benefits of using Sphinx to assist with data analysis. Get under the hood to learn how Sphinx operates, from running commands to ensuring your data stays secure, and find out how you can get your hands on this great tool for free.
Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/938
Interested in sponsoring a SuperDataScience Podcast episode? Email natalie@superdatascience.com for sponsorship information.
Nov 4, 2025 • 60min
937: How to Design AI-First Products, with Marc Dupuis
AI tools won’t eliminate but elevate data scientists, says Marc Dupuis. The CEO of fabi.ai talks to Jon Krohn about the new wave of AI-driven platforms that integrate workflows within popular work tools like Slack and email, and how building AI-first products means widening access to all ability levels.
This episode is brought to you by the Gurobi, by Dell and by Intel.
Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/937
Interested in sponsoring a SuperDataScience Podcast episode? Email natalie@superdatascience.com for sponsorship information.
In this episode you will learn:
(09:31) Will fabi.ai outshine data science practitioners
(20:40) Resolving workflows with fabi.ai
(24:08) Creating AI agents with fabi.ai
(45:23) How to avoid ‘gaming’ targets
Oct 31, 2025 • 5min
936: LLMs Are Delighted to Help Phishing Scams
How much power – and risk – do we carry around with us in our pockets? A Reuters investigation about how easily LLMs can be utilized for online phishing scams is the subject of this week’s Five-Minute Friday with Jon Krohn. By asking six of the most popular LLMs (Grok, ChatGPT, Meta AI, Claude, DeepSeek and Gemini) to generate phishing emails specifically targeting elderly people, Reuters found the safety sometimes severely lacking in the models. Listen to the episode to hear Jon quantify this problem with real-world examples, why mere content warnings in LLM models don’t work, and the troubling results of the phishing requests.
Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/936
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Oct 28, 2025 • 1h 17min
935: Global Issues Accelerated by AI (with Solutions), feat. Stephanie Hare
Jon Krohn speaks to researcher, broadcaster and author Stephanie Hare about how the Hippocratic Oath might apply to artificial intelligence, and a guiding ethos for pushing innovation while protecting users from harm. A code of conduct, she says, could be one approach to ensuring that people are using technology more mindfully and ethically, as well as an opportunity for users to feel that they belong to a wider, global community. Although she sympathizes with people concerned by overregulation undermining innovation, Stephanie also notes that we expect certain standards to be met elsewhere, such as vehicle and drug safety, as well as fair journalistic practices. As Stephanie explains, we need to find a realistic middle ground between innovation and regulation.
This episode is brought to you by the Dell, by Intel, by Fabi and by Gurobi.
Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/935
Interested in sponsoring a SuperDataScience Podcast episode? Email natalie@superdatascience.com for sponsorship information.
In this episode you will learn:
(01:23) What ‘technology ethics’ is
(14:46) Developing a Hippocratic Oath for tech
(42:32) How to protect against sensationalism
(53:38) How to maintain a balance of growth and infrastructure
Oct 24, 2025 • 7min
934: Is AI Replacing Junior Workers?
With the number of jobs dramatically slowing in the last year, many question if this decline is down to companies turning to AI for completing entry-level tasks in particular. Research published earlier this month by Yale University shows no major difference in the types of roles and tasks in so-called `white-collar jobs` since late 2022, an auspicious date that coincides with the launch of ChatGPT. In this week‘s Five-Minute Friday, host Jon Krohn discusses if and when AI will undercut junior-level jobs, particularly in the US.
Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/934
Interested in sponsoring a SuperDataScience Podcast episode? Email natalie@superdatascience.com for sponsorship information.
Oct 21, 2025 • 1h 15min
933: Future-Proofing Your Career in the AI Era, feat. Sheamus McGovern
Sheamus McGovern, CEO of Open Data Science, takes Jon Krohn and his listeners on a journey to launching his popular data science and AI conference, now in its tenth year, as well as the great shifts to the fields that he has seen on the way. For Seamus, the growth of his Open Data Science Conference has shown him that an AI engineer is just the beginning of several roles that will emerge from the industry. He asks Jon to consider the breadth of tasks demanded of today’s engineers, from data profiling and transformation to feature engineering, hyper-parameter tuning, and model deployments. Just as the AI engineer emerged from the data scientist role, Seamus expects the industry to respond to the broadening range of projects and tools with new, niche, and dynamic job roles.
This episode is brought to you by the Trainium2, the latest AI chip from AWS, by Gurobi, by Dell and by Intel.
Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/933
Interested in sponsoring a SuperDataScience Podcast episode? Email natalie@superdatascience.com for sponsorship information.
In this episode you will learn:
(02:50) Why Seamus started ODSC
(18:27) The differences in AI engineers and data scientists
(24:20) How to keep up with AI’s rapid pace
(33:51) How people hire for AI orchestration
(46:26) How companies can get team skillsets right
