Student-Created Podcast

Exploring Tomorrow's Careers Through the Lens of AI

We started this show because we kept hearing about AI changing everything but nobody was explaining what that meant for real careers, in plain language, for students our age. So we decided to find out ourselves.

Paths of Curiosity in an AI World

The 2026 Roadmap

Each quarter we release a focused six-guest mini-series diving deep into one major domain. You'll hear directly from working professionals, researchers, leaders, builders, who break down what their jobs actually look like today and where their fields are heading.

We're students figuring this out alongside you. This podcast is how we do it, one conversation at a time.

Designed for students, parents, and college advisors who want real clarity, not hype.

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Mind, Body & Living Systems
Health, biology, environment, cognitive science
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Power, Law & Civic Life
Justice, governance, democracy, security
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Data, Behavior & Human Systems
Economics, psychology, markets, decisions
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Engineering, Science & Discovery
Infrastructure, energy, space, robotics

All Four Quarters

One mini-series per quarter, each a deep dive into a different domain where AI is reshaping careers.

Episode 01
Christopher Longhurst, MD, MS
CEO, Seattle Children's Hospital
Mission control centers, AI in hospital operations, restoring humanism in medicine through ambient AI scribes.
Clinical Leadership
Episode 02
Julia Adler-Milstein, PhD
Professor & Chief, Clinical Informatics, UCSF
AI tools are only as good as the humans overseeing them, and Dr. Adler-Milstein's research shows we may be asking clinicians to do something humans are genuinely bad at.
Health Policy
Episode 03
Gabriel Wardi, MD
Critical Care Physician & AI Researcher, UC San Diego
Deep learning sepsis prediction model reducing mortality 17%, implementing AI in the emergency department.
Emergency & Critical Care
Episode 04
Natalie Pageler, MD
Division Chief, Clinical Informatics, Stanford Medicine
Decisions made in childhood can echo for a lifetime. Dr. Pageler designs AI tools for kids, and the stakes, in both directions, are enormous.
Pediatric Informatics
Episode 05
Erin Holve, PhD, MPH, MPP
Director, PCORI
Dr. Holve helped write HIPAA, the federal law protecting your medical privacy. Now she's watching AI test every boundary of it.
Outcomes Research
Episode 06
Mayank Goel, PhD
Professor, Carnegie Mellon University
What if your AirPods could tell you were getting sick three days before you felt anything? Dr. Goel is building the technology that makes that possible, and he's never treated a patient.
Passive Sensing & HCI
Episode 07
AI in Healthcare Recap
Season 1 Finale
A synthesis of key insights from our six deep-dive conversations, mapping the future of healthcare careers.
Episode 01
Nathan Wessler, JD
Deputy Director, ACLU Speech, Privacy & Technology Project
Your phone knows everywhere you've been. Your face can unlock a door — or flag you to police. Nathan Wessler argued Carpenter v. United States before the Supreme Court and won. He talks to us about what civil liberties actually mean when AI is watching.
Digital Civil Liberties
Episode 02
Veena Dubal, JD, PhD
Professor of Law, UC College of the Law San Francisco
An app tells you when to work, what you'll earn, and whether you're still needed tomorrow. Prof. Dubal studies what happens to workers when the boss is an algorithm — and what the law has to say about it.
Labor Law & AI
Episode 03
Maura Grossman, JD, PhD
Research Professor, University of Waterloo
Courts now let AI sift through millions of documents to find evidence. Prof. Grossman helped write the playbook for how that's done responsibly — and she's still figuring out where the line is between useful and dangerous.
AI Ethics & the Courts
Episode 04
Ramesh Srinivasan, PhD, MS
Professor & Author, UCLA
Who actually controls the internet — and who gets left out of that decision? Prof. Srinivasan has spent years listening to communities around the world answer that question, and what he's found should change how you think about technology and power.
Technology & Democracy
Episode 05
Clarence Okoh, JD
Civil Rights Attorney & AI Policy Advocate
An algorithm denies your loan, flags your resume, or recommends you stay in jail. Nobody wrote that rule — a model learned it. Clarence Okoh is one of the lawyers figuring out how to fight decisions made by machines.
Racial Equity & AI
Episode 06
Jennifer Leonard, JD
President & CEO, The College of Law Practice Management
If AI can research, draft, and argue — what exactly are law students learning to do? Jennifer Leonard is at the center of one of the legal profession's most uncomfortable questions, and she isn't afraid of the answer.
Legal Innovation
Episode 07
Q2 Power & Law Recap
Quarter 2 Finale
Six conversations. Six different corners of law, governance, and civic life. This episode pulls the threads together and asks: what does it actually mean to build a career in law when the tools, the risks, and the rules are all changing at once?

Episodes will appear here when the series drops.

Episodes will appear here when the series drops.

Start Here

See where you could go. Find your entry point. Understand how they got there.
Every resource below is free, no account required.

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Career Landscape Map
See the full picture. Every career in this domain, how AI is changing each one, and which guests live where on the map. Start here if you don't know where you fit yet.
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What's Your Spark?
Find out which corner of the AI world fits how you think, and what to do about it. Takes five minutes.
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Teach This
Everything you need to use this mini-series in a classroom or advisory session. Discussion prompts, learning objectives, and activities, ready to go, no prep required.

Built for the Classroom and Advisory Office

Paths of Curiosity was designed from the start to be useful in educational settings, not just listenable. Every mini-series comes with structured materials a counselor or teacher can use the same week.

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Career & College Advisory

Use the Career Landscape Map and episode worksheets in individual advisory sessions to help students connect their interests to emerging career paths before choosing a major.

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Classroom Use

Each episode runs 20 to 30 minutes and is designed for student audiences. The educator guide includes discussion prompts, activities, and standards connections.

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Homeschool Families

The quarterly mini-series structure makes it easy to incorporate as a unit study. The worksheet series builds critical thinking, research literacy, and career self-knowledge.

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Track Student Engagement

Use our Google Form worksheets (available on request) to collect student responses and measure engagement with a timestamped record.

All resources free, no account required, no paywall
New mini-series materials released every quarter
Available in print-ready and digital fillable formats

Bring Paths of Curiosity to Your Students

We're actively building partnerships with schools, libraries, homeschool networks, and college advisors. If you'd like to use our materials, get advance copies of new series, or explore a formal partnership, we'd love to hear from you.

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Educator Testimonial

"The guest quality and the way Acadia structures these conversations gives students direct access to people actually shaping these fields. That's rare at this level."

College Advisor

Created by Two Sisters

We started this show because we wanted to understand what the future of work actually looks like before we got there. We're students figuring this out alongside you.

Co-Host & Interviewer
Acadia Holve

Acadia Holve is the co-creator and host of Paths of Curiosity in an AI World. Analytical by nature and drawn to the big picture, she built this podcast to do what she does best: find the patterns beneath the surface and understand how complex systems actually fit together.

What drives her isn't just curiosity about technology, it's the connections. How a change in one field ripples into another. How the choices students make now map onto careers that don't fully exist yet.

Acadia Holve
Alora Holve
Co-Host & Producer
Alora Holve

Alora Holve is the co-creator and producer of Paths of Curiosity in an AI World, and the spark behind the idea that became this project. Energetic, visionary, and always thinking several steps ahead, she brought the original concept to life alongside her sister.

Behind every episode, Alora is at work — research, editing, visual design, social media, and show notes. She thinks in terms of where this project is going, not just where it is.

Let's Connect

Whether you're a potential guest, an educator who wants to use our materials, a student with a question, or someone who just wants to follow along, we'd love to hear from you.

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