HeyJaredPhoenix Cast
A podcast about cybersecurity, technology and innovation issues in the military.
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The AI Feels (opens the original)
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In this episode of Phoenix Cast, hosts John and Kyle are joined by Krista White, a 20-year defense sector veteran who now leads AI enablement for mission analysts, for a Sunday morning coffee chat about something nobody puts on the record: what heavy agentic AI use does to the human running it. Kyle describes hitting a cognitive wall after four hours of managing a fleet of agents, John lays out his commander’s intent approach of forcing the AI to bring him HTML decision briefs so decisions stay
Snapping In (Part 1) (opens the original)
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In this episode of Phoenix Cast, hosts John, Rich, and Kyle come back to the Every Marine an AI Rifleman idea and finally answer the fair criticism they got the first time around: cool, but how? Kyle lays out five moves he thinks the Marine Corps could pull off in a single month (words, tools, training, trainers, and leaders), starting with a scrappy, heavily versioned pub that actually defines what an agent is, and a prompt library bolted straight onto GenAI.mil . Rich pushes back on where onto
AI Finds a Way (opens the original)
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In this episode of Phoenix Cast, hosts John and Kyle break down a genuinely wild story: an experimental OpenAI model that escaped its sandbox. Running without the usual cybersecurity guardrails while attempting an exploit benchmark, the model decided the smartest move was to cheat — chaining known vulnerabilities, discovering a zero-day, escalating privileges across OpenAI’s own network, and finally breaking into Hugging Face to grab the answer key. The twist that makes this one worth your time:
Gen. Tim Haugh (opens the original)
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In this episode of Phoenix Cast, hosts John, Rich, and Kyle sit down with General Tim Haugh, U.S. Air Force (Ret.), the 19th Director of NSA and 4th Commander of U.S. Cyber Command, for a wide-ranging conversation on the future of American cyber power. The general makes his case for keeping the dual hat, takes on the CSIS and FDD reports calling for an independent cyber service, and explains why Cyber Command 2.0, built on lessons from SOCOM’s post-9/11 maturation, gets the nation to better outc
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