Beginners in AI

I'm a humanist first, AI explainer second. I break down the tools and frameworks beginners actually need to enhance their lives without the hype, without the jargon, without making you feel behind. You're not late. You're right on time. Follow along.

Two top AI researchers wrote a book with a simple message: if anyone builds a superhuman AI, everyone dies. Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares aren't fringe figures. Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio take their work seriously.

What are you seeing in your own company or industry? Is the AI transformation pressure showing up at the top? — Read the full story: futurism.com/artificial-int…

This is a new kind of leadership pressure. It's not about quarterly results or scandal. It's about whether the person at the top has the instincts and speed to navigate an AI transformation in real time. The boards and investors have decided: that's the new job requirement.

The CEOs of Coca-Cola and Walmart just stepped down. Both said AI was a major reason why. Not because they're scared of it. Because they decided they're not the right people to lead their companies through it. That is a fundamentally different conversation than anything we've had before.

Hollywood can't ban AI actors. So SAG-AFTRA is trying a different approach: charge studios a fee every time a synthetic performer takes a human's job. They're calling it the "Tilly tax." Negotiations resume this spring. Contract expires June 30.

Researchers just gave tiny drones the ability to navigate in the dark, no GPS, no cameras. They paired a lightweight sonar system with AI, copying how bats use echolocation to move through tight spaces.

Angela Lipps is back in Tennessee. She wants an apology. Fargo police say the case is still open. She could still be re-charged. The full story: cnn.com/2026/03/29/us/…

Illinois is now moving to ban police facial recognition, citing Lipps directly. Virginia is tightening its rules. Fargo's police chief has since resigned. But in most of the country, there are still no guardrails.

An AI algorithm looked at a blurry bank photo and decided Angela Lipps did it. She had never been to North Dakota. Not once. She spent 108 days in jail. Lost her home, her car, and her dog. Charges were dropped on Christmas Eve. This is what AI facial recognition is doing to real people. 🧵

The parts of AI models that DO align with the brain are better at predicting real human behavior. The parts that don't align? Those are internal strategies the brain doesn't appear to use at all. AI is solving vision differently than we thought — and that matters for how it gets used in research. medicalxpress.com/news/2026-03-r…

York University researchers flipped the usual question. Scientists normally ask: can AI predict brain activity? This study asked the reverse: can brain activity predict what's happening inside AI? Answer: no, not equally.

AI is called "brain-like" all the time. A new study just tested whether that's actually true. The answer: not really. And that's a bigger problem than most people realize. 🧵