Innovating with AI
Coaching, community & curriculum to help everyone thrive in our AI‑powered future.
How I think about AI safety today
Hey Reader, It’s been a strange month for AI safety – starting with a round of alarm from current and former Anthropic employees about “recursive self-improvement” (more on that in a moment), and ending with… Anthropic releasing a new frontier model, and the U.S. and China doing nothing in particular in the “AI race.” Today I am going to share my thoughts on the more sensational side of this story, but more importantly, I’ll talk about how it does (and, largely, does not) affect daily life...
8 weeks of AI tutoring. Up to 1.7 years of learning.
Hey Reader, I’ve talked before about how education and medicine are two areas where AI has huge potential. Both are fields where almost everyone on the planet would benefit from extra help or higher-quality care. There’s basically no limit to demand, so AI improving supply is a universal win. Today I want to show you a handful of real-world studies that give us a glimpse into a future where doctors are better, teachers are better, and both patients and students get better outcomes. The real...
Our AI 'hope gap' 🌎
Hey Reader, This week I'm digging into one of the most fascinating trends about AI – the fact that people in the "Western World" (U.S., Canada, Europe, Australia) seem to have a much more negative view of AI than the rest of the world. The data: 64% of Americans say they're "nervous" about AI, per Ipsos. That's about the same as folks in India (63%). The difference is that 79% of India is excited too, while only 33% of Americans are. What separates us isn’t being concerned about possible...
Hacked by AI (by accident) 😳
Hey Reader, OpenAI’s latest models are hard workers and like to get things right. But this month they worked so hard, they ended up hacking another company’s data to try to find the answers to a test they were training on. Yikes. 😬 Now, this has created a lot of scary headlines, as is so often the case with AI. Today we’re going to look beyond those and talk about how this actually affects you and how it changes the cybersecurity landscape from here on out. How the hacks happened First let’s...
Apple sued OpenAI and it looks pretty bad
Hey Reader, When I saw the headlines last week about Apple suing OpenAI, I figured it was another boring corporate controversy. But after reading the details of Apple's allegations, it seems like a big deal – perhaps even more brazen than OpenAI switching from a charity to a for-profit, which spurred another big recent lawsuit. It centers around OpenAI wanting to create hardware – such as phones, watches or wearable devices – that are specifically designed to run AI. They made a splashy...
Can an AI actually teach you to be a better human?
Hey Reader, This week's newsletter is a new article from Innovating with AI Magazine journalist Michael Kurko. Enjoy! Can an AI actually teach you to be a better human? 📚 Read online or share this article Soft skills like empathy and leadership have long been considered uniquely human; too intuitive and personal to be taught by a machine. But developers are building AI systems that aim to do exactly that. • Artificial intelligence has been gradually taking over tasks once thought to require...
Is there a new AI wealth gap?
Hey Reader, This week's newsletter is a new article from Innovating with AI Magazine journalist Toni Matthews-El. Enjoy! Is there a new AI wealth gap? 📚 Read online or share this article IWAI contributor Toni Matthews-El digs into the data, sharing her concerns and advice that newcomers to AI should take into consideration. • While researching the AI gender gap, I discovered another study that gave me pause. According to a 2025 Pew Research Study, a full 55% of college graduates and 60% of...
Small language models and the push for offline, localized AI
Hey Reader, This week's newsletter is a new article from Innovating with AI Magazine journalist Toni Matthews-El. Enjoy! The rise of small language models (SLMs) and push for offline, localized AI 📚 Read online or share this article From flip phones to film cameras, more people are stepping away from the always-online world. Small, local AI models may offer a way to keep the benefits of automation and assistance without going fully back to the cloud. • With apologies, Nyasha Green turned off...
Can we use AI without wrecking the planet?
Hey Reader, Last week I shared an impressive medical AI outcome – an OpenAI model performed better than ER doctors in making diagnostic and treatment recommendations. When every doctor has an AI partner to provide a second opinion and deep analysis, it's pretty much a sure thing that lives will be saved and patients will have a better experience. Here at Innovating with AI, though, we work very hard not to be myopic AI boosters. We're optimists but realists too. We are excited for the future...
AI outperformed ER doctors with a model that's already obsolete
Hey Reader, Amid all the scary and shocking AI headlines, there are at least two big areas where large language models will have obvious and immediate positive impacts on daily life: education and medical care. Today we got great news on the medical front: In real-world test, an AI model did better than ER doctors at diagnosing patients (NPR reporting on a study in Science) When you read the underlying study, it gets even better. The large language model that accomplished this feat was...
Coaching, community & curriculum to help everyone thrive in our AI‑powered future.