AI Ascent with Dr. Jonathan Luckett Podcast

Last week, a hantavirus outbreak linked to a cruise ship became one of the fastest-moving public health stories of 2026 — 11 cases, 3 deaths, passengers from 20+ countries, Americans quarantined in Nebraska. I wanted to understand it. So I built a tool to track it. Using Manus AI, I created a real-time interactive surveillance dashboard — a full chronological timeline of every event since February, animated live case counters, a plain-English explainer for general audiences,

I have a new piece out today in CXO Tech Magazine that digs into one of the most important and underreported conversations in AI governance right now: what happens when the rules governing AI systems get challenged, debated, or outright rejected? Anthropic built its “AI Constitution” as a framework for aligning Claude’s behavior with human values. But scrutiny of that model, and Constitutional AI more broadly, raises urgent questions about who gets to write the rules, who enf

Ghost GDP and the 2028 White-Collar Crash: A Warning We Can't Afford to Ignore What if the economy looks healthy on paper — but millions of office workers are already being quietly erased from it? That's not a conspiracy theory. It's the central premise of a striking economic thought experiment published by Citrini Research — titled Ghost GDP and the 2028 White-Collar Crash — and after spending time with this simulation, I can tell you: it's one of the most unsettling econo