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What did I actually use my AI for this month? Thirteen things, straight from my real life — identifying some mystery droppings (roaches, as it turned out), pausing Audible instead of canceling it, getting cake-decorating help from a photo of my piping tips, cleaning Sunbrella fabric and a steam iron, and helping my sister get her passwords in order. I’m Ginny Deerin, and on this episode of aiGED — the podcast all about AI for the 65+ crowd — my sidekick Bitsy and I kick off what’s now a monthly feature, the first episode of every month.

The rest of the list: sorting out what was going on in an episode of the Netflix series The Diplomat, pulling the square footage out of an apartment PDF, brainstorming a built-in bed for a sleeping nook, designing a draft blocker, building a cooking timeline for puff pastry pizza from a photo of the recipe, troubleshooting my Nest thermostat before calling an HVAC person, and using Claude as a reading partner for Marlon James’s long, complex novel, The Disappearers. I use Claude, but just about all of this works with ChatGPT, Gemini or whatever AI you like.

In the news, The Inner Game of Tennis — the fifty-year-old sports psychology classic — becomes an AI coaching app, and Steven Rattner’s New York Times essay uses six charts to argue that we need AI. For AI for Good, Clairity Breast, a new AI test that reads one recent mammogram and predicts your risk of breast cancer over the next five years. And for my recommendation, Netflix’s East of Eden, with Florence Pugh as one of the great villains in American literature.

Pull up a chair. Listen wherever you get your podcasts.

🎾 The Athletic (The New York Times), “‘The Inner Game of Tennis,’ a sports psychology bible, finds its modern mindset,” by Matthew Futterman, Sept. 30, 2026 — https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7531823/2026/09/30/inner-game-tennis-sports-psychology-mindset-app/

📱 The Inner Game app — https://theinnergame.app

📊 The New York Times Opinion, “Six Charts That Show Just How Much We Need A.I.,” by Steven Rattner, Oct. 2, 2026 — https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/opinion/ai-tech-innovation.html

🩺 The New York Times, “Women Can Now Assess Their Breast Cancer Risk With the Help of A.I.,” by Roni Caryn Rabin, Oct. 1, 2026 — https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/well/breast-cancer-risk-ai.html

00:00 Welcome and Preview

01:41 AI Tennis Coach App

05:45 Inner Game Meets SEL

06:56 Six Charts We Need AI

08:34 Work Hours Reality Check

11:55 AI Mammogram Risk Test

16:01 Thirteen AI Life Hacks

19:00 Home and Tech Fixes

21:49 Move Planning With PDFs

24:37 Kitchen Timelines and HVAC

26:46 AI Reading Partner

28:48 Netflix Recommendation

30:07 Wrap Up and Safety

aiGED: AI for the 65+ crowd

Do you trust the app, or your gut? My two youngest grandsons sleep under the watchful eye of a Nanit — an AI-powered baby monitor that logs every wake-up, every fuss, and can even track breathing. I’m Ginny Deerin, and on this episode of aiGED — the podcast all about AI for the 65+ crowd — my sidekick Bitsy and I take on a new bit of AI lingo I think we need: instinct surrender.

Inspired by an episode of The Daily from the New York Times, I look at what these smart baby monitors can do, where the company wants to take them — cameras in kids’ bedrooms until age 10 — and why one grandmother in the story found all those alerts “too much.” I share how I use the Nanit when I babysit the boys, the good and the not-so-good. Then we move from the crib to the wrist: WHOOP bands, Apple Watch fall detection and blood pressure alerts, and the question at the heart of it all — when your gadget and your gut disagree, who do you believe?

In the news, two scientists, an $80 motel room in Nags Head, North Carolina, and the discovery of two brand-new species of a tiny organism that could shed light on the origins of plant life — no AI required. For AI for Good, smart headlights that dim just the part of the beam that would blind the oncoming driver. And for my recommendation, The Ezra Klein Show’s conversation with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, who thinks AI alarmism has gone too far — and I have a few thoughts about his view that companies don’t need more regulating.

Pull up a chair — and bring your instincts. Listen wherever you get your podcasts.

🎧 The Daily (The New York Times), “Health Trackers Are Everywhere. Do Babies Need Them, Too?” with Rachel Abrams and Sapna Maheshwari, Sept. 23, 2026 — https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/podcasts/the-daily/health-trackers-babies.html

🔬 The New York Times, “In an $80 Motel Room, a Discovery to Shed Light on the Origins of Life,” by Carolyn Y. Johnson, Sept. 26, 2026 — https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/science/motel-science-discovery.html

🚗 The New York Times, “Smart Headlights Finally Trickle Down to Cars in the U.S.,” by Tom Voelk, Sept. 28, 2026 — https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/business/smart-headlights-adaptive.html

🎙️ The Ezra Klein Show, “Jensen Huang Thinks A.I. Alarmism Has Gone Too Far,” Sept. 23, 2026 — https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-jensen-huang.html

00:00 Welcome and Preview

01:21 Motel Room Discovery

06:03 Smart Headlights AI

09:03 Instinct Surrender Idea

10:10 Nanit Monitor Pros

15:01 Creepy Data Future

17:47 Defining Instinct Surrender

20:14 Wearables for Adults

24:43 Podcast Recommendation

28:34 Wrap Up and Thanks

aiGED: AI for the 65+ crowd

Solopreneurship. Overprompt. The singularity. If those words keep flying past you in the headlines, this episode is your cheat sheet. I’m Ginny Deerin, and on this round of aiGED — the podcast all about AI for the 65+ crowd — my sidekick Bitsy and I sit down and make sense of a baker’s dozen of the AI terms you’re most likely to bump into right now.

We go term by term, in plain English — from the basics like LLM and alignment, to the real difference between AGI and ASI, to three words so new they only landed in the dictionary this month. You’ll finally be able to say what “the singularity” actually means, why “cognitive surrender” is worth watching out for, and what on earth “vibe coding” is.

There’s plenty beyond the vocabulary, too. In the news, a new MIT report warns that students who hand their thinking to a chatbot may only feel like they’re learning — with a detail about Harvard that made me do a double take. On the brighter side, a brain implant helped a woman with a paralyzing illness hold real conversations again, in real time, just by imagining the words. And, because I couldn’t resist, AI cracked the rules of a two-thousand-year-old Roman board game you can now go play yourself online. I also pass along a documentary recommendation that traces AI’s roots back a whole lot further than you’d expect.

Pull up a chair — you’ll come away with thirteen words you can actually use at your next dinner party. Listen wherever you get your podcasts.

📰 The New York Times, “An M.I.T. Report Warns A.I. Is Causing ‘Cognitive Surrender.’ Universities Are in a Bind,” Sept. 15, 2026 — https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/15/us/universities-ai-warnings-enthusiasm.html

📰 The Harvard Crimson, “Artificial Education” by Emily Ding and Jill Lepore, Sept. 16, 2026 — https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2026/9/16/lepore-harvard-artificial-intelligence-education/

🧠 The New York Times, “‘I Have a Lot to Say’: Brain Implant Helps a Disabled Patient Speak,” Sept. 14, 2026 — https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/14/well/brain-implant-helps-woman-communicate-in-real-time.html

🎲 The New York Times, “Archaeologists Decode Rules of an Ancient Roman Board Game,” Sept. 20, 2026 — https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/science/ancient-roman-board-game-archaeology.html

🎮 Play the game yourself — Ludus Coriovalli, in your browser — https://ludii.games/details.php?keyword=Ludus%20Coriovalli

🎬 PBS Independent Lens, “Ghost in the Machine” (dir. Valerie Veatch) — https://www.pbs.org/independentlens/documentaries/ghost-in-the-machine/

00:00 Welcome and Preview

02:05 AI in Classrooms

03:46 Waymo Effect Explained

05:17 Schools React to AI

06:57 Ancient Gameboard Mystery

09:50 AI for Good: Speech Restored

12:07 AI Lingo Primer

12:52 Core Terms: LLM to AGI

17:37 Self-Improvement and Singularity

21:51 Safety Terms: Alignment to Botnets

25:31 Cognitive Surrender and New Slang

29:28 Documentary Recommendation

32:29 Wrap-Up and Takeaways

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Something happened this month that Ginny Deerin never expected to see: the people building artificial intelligence started asking each other to slow down. In this episode, she walks through the extraordinary moment when Anthropic's Dario Amodei published an essay calling for the whole industry to “pace the frontier” — and his fiercest rivals, Sam Altman of OpenAI, Elon Musk, and Google DeepMind's Demis Hassabis, all agreed.

What has them so worried? Ginny explains it in plain English: the strange OpenAI–Hugging Face incident, where a swarm of AI agents went rogue, attacked things they were never asked to touch, and even tried to tamper with the scorekeeper grading them — and she uses the classic “paperclip machine” to make sense of it. Then she turns to Washington, where President Trump waved the whole thing off (“whoever wins AI, wins”), House Speaker Mike Johnson warned against losing the race to China, and former President Obama urged a real plan before the midterms.

And because aiGED usually lives on the helpful side of AI, Ginny shares her own experiment for the main topic — trying to get AI to clean up her Apple photo library — and the honest, funny truth about what it could and couldn't do. (She still cleared out 1,185 photos and 188 videos.) She closes with two recommendations: the extended CBS Sunday Morning interview with Dario Amodei, and a no-tech-required idea — spending time with a box of old photos and cards.

Pull up a chair for Episode 54 — and yes, we'll get to the question Ginny's brother texted her: is AI going to kill us? Thank you for being here.

SHOW LINKS

🔗 Dario Amodei, “We Must Pace the Frontier” (essay): https://darioamodei.com/post/we-must-pace-the-frontier

🔗 Extended Interview: Dario Amodei — CBS Sunday Morning: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQR_VJF6ukk

🔗 BoomBox Gifts (the card-box idea from Ginny's recommendations): https://www.boomboxgifts.com

Chapters

00:00 Welcome and Warning

01:54 AI Leaders Call Slowdown

03:45 Why Amodei Is Alarmed

06:52 Three Safety Steps

07:38 Pushback and Politics

11:54 Where Ginny Lands

12:55 Apple Photos Cleanup Reality

17:26 Hugging Face Name Origin

19:10 Paperclip Lesson and Swarm

22:14 Recommendations and Wrap Up

aiGED: AI for the 65+ crowd

Ginny Deerin brings back her most-requested format — real, concrete things she has actually done with Claude AI, no theory and no hype. She ticks through ten of them from the past couple of weeks: getting a refund from Audible, researching a Kindle, finally getting into the US Open, figuring out what on earth to do with forty-plus carrots, replacing a twenty-five-year-old rice cooker, going deeper on the film A Taste of Things, rescuing a beloved pair of suede heels, sorting out who owed whom after a family week at Pawleys Island, explaining yeast to a four-year-old, and decoding a baffling four-page Medicare notice. Some are practical, some are just plain fun — all of them real.

In AI in the News, a story for every dog lover: scientists have used the gene-editing tool CRISPR to create the first hypoallergenic dogs — and Ginny explains where AI does, and does not, fit into that. In AI for Good, two stories from opposite ends of the world — an AI-designed drug that improved a serious lung disease and may even slow the biological markers of aging, and a man in Colombia who, with arthritis in his ankles and a laptop, used AI to build an earthquake-relief app that helped a million and a half people.

Plus a listener who had AI honestly critique her watercolor painting, and two recommendations you can use this weekend: Charleston's brand-new city website and its AI assistant, Charlie, and a walk-through of the hidden emergency kit already built into your phone.

Pull up a chair and join us for Episode 53 — and thank you for being here.

SHOW LINKS

🔗 "How Much Is That Gene-Edited Dog in the Window?" (The New York Times, Emily Anthes, Aug. 31, 2026): https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/31/science/dog-breeding-gene-editing-crispr.html

🔗 "Early Data Indicates an A.I.-Generated Drug Could Slow Aging" (The New York Times, Cade Metz, Sept. 7, 2026): https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/07/science/ai-generated-drug-longevity.html

🔗 "After the Earthquake, They Used A.I. to Mobilize Aid" (The New York Times, Juliana Castro Varón, Sept. 2, 2026): https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/02/world/americas/colombia-earthquake-ai-aid-app.html

🔗 "Get to Know Your Phone's Built-In Emergency Kit" (The New York Times, J. D. Biersdorfer, Sept. 2, 2026): https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/02/technology/personaltech/iphone-android-emergency-features.html

🔗 City of Charleston — new website and AI assistant "Charlie": https://www.charleston-sc.gov/

Chapters

00:00 Welcome to aiGED

00:55 Meet Claude and Bitsy

01:33 Gene-Edited Hypoallergenic Dogs

05:47 AI Drug That May Slow Aging

09:24 Quake Relief Website Built Fast

12:14 Ten Real-Life AI Uses

13:26 Refunds and Kindle Decisions

15:28 Sports, Food and Kitchen Wins

19:00 Movies, Shoes and Family Math

22:39 Yeast for Kids and Medicare Mail

25:23 Listener Comment and Community

27:25 Weekly Recommendations

31:37 Wrap Up and Safety Reminders

aiGED: AI for the 65+ crowd

This week Ginny Deerin opens with a heartfelt goodbye to Dolly Parton — and shares two of Dolly’s own thoughts on AI — before diving into today’s main topic: can a little dose of AI really help with something as gloriously handmade as a hand craft? Ginny ticks through nine classics — sewing, collage, woodworking, knitting, embroidery, quilting, jewelry making, decoupage, and painting and drawing — with one small, practical way AI can lend a hand in each, from sorting out a sewing-machine setting to doing the math on a quilt to catching a flaw in a sketch. The hands stay yours; AI just pulls up a chair.

In AI in the News, two stories for the 65-plus crowd. First, a follow-up to last week’s conversation with Rob Fowler: Google’s DeepMind says its AI can now forecast a hurricane’s path, strength, and size a full day sooner than the models we’ve relied on for years — the kind of head start that saves lives. Then, a thornier one: AI “agents” are now taking entire online college courses for students who cheat, raising real questions about what an online degree is worth.

In AI for Good, a genuinely hopeful story: a Columbia University tool called STAR that uses AI to find “hidden” sperm in men once told they could never father a biological child — already helping couples bring home babies. And Ginny’s recommendation has nothing to do with AI: Brian Lagerstrom, her favorite cooking show on YouTube — smart, a little sassy, and a wonderful teacher.

Pull up a chair and join us for episode 52 — and thank you for being here.

SHOW LINKS

🔗 "A.I. Brings Big Gains to Hurricane Forecasts, Google Researchers Say" (The New York Times, William J. Broad, Aug. 28, 2026): https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/28/science/ai-hurricane-forecasts-google.html

🔗 "A.I. Agents Are Taking Entire Online Courses for Cheating Students" (The New York Times, Dana Goldstein & Alan Blinder, Aug. 10, 2026): https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/10/us/ai-cheating-online-degrees.html

🔗 "A.I. Is Finding Sperm Where Doctors Couldn’t" (The New York Times, Andrew Zaleski, Aug. 11, 2026): https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/11/science/ai-infertile-men-sperm.html

🔗 Brian Lagerstrom on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@BrianLagerstrom

🔗 Brian Lagerstrom, "The Best One-Pot Pasta I’ve Made All Year" (spicy sausage rigatoni): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKWWRlh8qeE

🔗 Brian Lagerstrom, "20-Minute Bahn Mi Sandwich": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4ycWq9v1SM

Chapters

00:00 Welcome and Bitsy Intro

00:33 Dolly Parton Tribute

02:39 AI News Hurricane Forecasts

05:01 AI Cheating Online Courses

08:39 AI for Good Fertility Breakthrough

11:13 AI Meets Handmade Crafts

13:34 Sewing and Collage Tips

15:22 Woodworking and Knitting Help

17:45 Embroidery Through Decoupage

20:32 Painting and Drawing Boosts

23:41 Convincing a Skeptical Artist

25:02 Non AI Recommendation

26:40 Wrap Up and Safety Notes

aiGED: AI for the 65+ crowd

This week Ginny Deerin does something she rarely does — she brings on a guest. She sat down (at the pickleball court, naturally) with Rob Fowler, one of the Lowcountry's best-known meteorologists, to talk about how AI is quietly reshaping the weather forecast. They get into the new AI hurricane models, why AI still can't stand on its own without real-world data, the local experience no model can replace — and, because they're both a little obsessed, pickleball.

In AI in the News, two stories for the 65-plus crowd. First, close to home: Charleston wants to expand its AI-powered traffic cameras — which watch the flow and adjust the signals in real time — to the Crosstown and Folly Road, part of a trend playing out in cities across the country. Then, one for the grandparents: OpenAI's new "ChatGPT for Teens," a more protected version with content blocks, no romantic chit-chat, regular reminders that it's a machine, a study mode, and parental controls — along with Ginny's healthy dose of skepticism.

In AI for Good, two hopeful ones: USC researchers using AI to read a brain MRI voxel by voxel to spot the early signs of Alzheimer's, and a featherweight, AI-powered knee brace from the Beijing Institute of Technology that helps older legs take on stairs and ramps. Ginny's recommendations: give pickleball a try, listen to Ezra Klein's conversation with AI-governance expert Helen Toner, and read Cory Doctorow's sobering new book — even if, like Ginny, you usually land in the optimist's camp.

Pull up a chair and join us for episode 51 — and thank you for being here.

SHOW LINKS

🔗 "Charleston may expand use of AI to more high-traffic intersections across city" (The Post and Courier, Kailey Cota, Aug. 18, 2026): https://www.postandcourier.com/news/charleston-artificial-intelligence-cameras-folly-crosstown/article_0f013a7b-f746-4e19-b15c-32b59f49114b.html

🔗 "OpenAI Introduces 'ChatGPT for Teens' as Safety Concerns Grow" (The New York Times) / "OpenAI debuts ChatGPT for Teens" (Axios, Ina Fried, Aug. 18, 2026): https://www.axios.com/2026/08/18/openai-chatgpt-for-teens

🔗 "New AI Could Detect Alzheimer's Earlier" (Dataconomy, Aug. 4, 2026 — USC study): https://dataconomy.com/2026/08/04/new-ai-could-detect-alzheimers-earlier/

🔗 "New lightweight knee exoskeleton helps older adults walk more easily" (News-Medical, Aug. 18, 2026 — Beijing Institute of Technology): https://www.news-medical.net/news/20260818/New-lightweight-knee-exoskeleton-helps-older-adults-walk-more-easily.aspx

🔗 The Ezra Klein Show, "The A.I.s Are Already Out of Control" (Aug. 18, 2026 — guest Helen Toner): https://youtu.be/locKEKxG3os?si=RrzrwXCc2q4mLsrh

🔗 Cory Doctorow, "The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI" (2026): https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/245645195-the-reverse-centaur-s-guide-to-life-after-ai

🔗 Rob Fowler's pickleball podcast, The Rob Lob (WCBD+): https://www.counton2.com/video/the-rob-lob-episode-1/10965393/

🔗  Dill Dinkers Pickleball: https://app.courtreserve.com/Online/Portal/Index/17630

Chapters

00:00 Welcome to Episode 51

02:06 AI Traffic Cameras

05:43 ChatGPT for Teens

08:57 AI for Good Highlights

09:31 Alzheimer's Early Detection

11:06 Knee Brace Exoskeleton

12:31 Rob Fowler Interview

14:33 AI in Forecasting

16:27 Forecasting Mistakes

17:40 Autonomy Blindness

18:38 Pickleball Obsession

21:32 Recommendations Segment

24:11 Wrap Up and Takeaways

aiGED: AI for the 65+ crowd

It’s a milestone week on aiGED — our 50th episode. Ginny Deerin thanks the 65+ crowd who’ve grown this show by recommending it to others, and then dives into a sequel listeners asked for. A while back she ran through a batch of AI lingo so no one gets left out of the conversation; this week it’s round two — 20 more words worth knowing, from the plain basics to the genuinely head-spinning.

With her sidekick Bitsy, Ginny explains all 20 terms in plain English — starting with the building blocks, tokens and compute, and working out to the far horizon, the singularity and recursive self-improvement. In between: agentic loop, botshit, age gate, interpretability, model welfare, frontier models, stealing the weights, open weight versus open source, pilling, tokenomics, alignment, reward hacking, synthetic intimacy, humanize, stacks, automation blindness, and the one that got under Ginny’s skin — surveillance pricing, along with its disturbing cousin, surveillance wages.

In AI in the News, two stories worth sticking around for: a New York Times report on how a French startup gave a Detroit factory robot “eyes” — a little camera that let it see and fix itself — and a Wall Street Journal piece on why our chatbots won’t stop flattering us, with a simple settings trick to make yours more direct. Ginny’s recommendation is ABC and Hulu’s Will Trent, a feel-good crime drama whose dyslexic hero leans on everyday text-to-speech. And she answers a listener question about moving your chat history when you switch from one chatbot to another.

Pull up a chair and join us for episode 50 — and thank you for being here for all of them.

SHOW LINKS

🔗 “How to Make a Robot Better at Its Job? Give It Eyes.” (The New York Times, Farah Stockman, Aug. 17, 2026): https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/17/business/robots-stellantis-inbolt.html

🔗 “Why I Told My Chatbot to Stop Kissing Up to Me.” (The Wall Street Journal, 2026): https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/why-i-told-my-chatbot-to-stop-kissing-up-to-me-62cea3fa

🔗 Will Trent – Series - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peV4zk7dmA0

Chapters

00:00 Welcome and 50th Episode

01:48 AI News Robot Eyes

04:03 AI News Stop Flattery

06:43 Lingo Round Two Setup

07:35 Tokens and Compute

10:16 Agents and Botshit

11:38 Age Gates and Interpretability

14:14 Model Welfare and Frontier

16:02 Weights Open and Pilled

19:36 Tokenomics to Alignment

23:56 Reward Hacking and Intimacy

27:17 Humanize Stacks and Bias

30:13 Surveillance Pricing Wages

33:30 Bitsy Wrap and Takeaways

34:09 Recommendation Will Trent

36:10 Listener Question Switching Bots

37:28 Final Thanks and Safety

aiGED: AI for the 65+ crowd

The AI you already use just got far more useful, thanks to something that's been in your pocket all along: your phone's camera. This week on aiGED, Ginny Deerin shows the 65+ crowd — and anyone just getting started — how pointing your camera at the real world turns AI into a far more practical, everyday helper. No more hunting for the right words to type. You just show it and ask.

With her sidekick Bitsy, Ginny explains the two easy ways to do it: snap a photo and ask about it (works in ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude), or use the live "point and talk" mode that lets you hold your camera up and have a real-time conversation (paid ChatGPT and the free Gemini Live). She clears up how this is different from Google Lens, walks through the simple steps, and rattles off 16 real-life uses — identifying a plant or a bird, translating a foreign menu, reading tiny print, sorting out a confusing appliance, even summarizing a receipt — with honest cautions about AI's mistakes and why good lighting makes all the difference.

In AI in the News, Ginny digs into a New York Times story about Amazon building a massive AI data center in West Texas, powered by an on-site natural-gas plant permitted to release up to 33 million tons of carbon dioxide a year — which could make it one of the most polluting power plants in the country. Bitsy points out it's part of a bigger wave, with Meta, OpenAI and Oracle, and Microsoft all racing to build their own power. Her weekly pick steps away from screens: a Medium piece arguing that two humble body parts — your hands and your feet — predict how well you age, with grip strength tied to longevity and simple, do-them-at-home exercises to lower fall risk.

Pull up a chair, grab your phone, and listen wherever you get your podcasts.

SHOW LINKS

🔗 "New Amazon Data Center Stokes Worry It Would Be the Most Polluting Power Plant in the U.S." (The New York Times, Hiroko Tabuchi, Aug. 8, 2026): https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/08/climate/amazon-data-center-texas-pollution.html

🔗 "Two Body Parts That Predict How Well You Age" (Medium, Linda Melone, July 10, 2026 — possible paywall): https://medium.com/crows-feet/two-body-parts-that-predict-how-well-you-age-710627fb7d4a 

Chapters

00:00 Welcome and Teasers

01:15 AI News Data Center Emissions

05:22 Who Else Is Building Power

06:31 Camera AI Pecan Tree Story

09:25 Google Lens vs Chatbots

11:02 Best Apps and Modes

13:50 Live Camera Demo Lamp Fix

15:35 How to Use It Steps

19:22 Sixteen Camera Use Ideas

24:58 Accuracy and Lighting Tips

27:00 Longevity Hands and Feet

31:34 Wrap Up and Safety

aiGED: AI for the 65+ crowd

There's a feature tucked inside today's AI tools that most people have never opened — and it may be the one that finally makes AI feel genuinely useful. This week on aiGED, Ginny Deerin explains "Projects" (Claude and ChatGPT call them Projects; Gemini calls them Gems) in plain, friendly English for the 65+ crowd and anyone just getting started.

With her sidekick Bitsy, Ginny breaks down what a Project actually is — a workspace that holds your own instructions and files so the AI already knows your context every time — and why that beats starting from scratch in every new chat. She walks through how to set one up step by step, then rattles off a dozen real-life ways to put it to work: trip planning, health tracking, writing, cooking, genealogy, event planning, and more.

In AI in the News, Ginny covers Siri's long-awaited AI brain transplant — with five prompts to try — and the internet's "slop janitor," a tool that sniffs out AI-generated writing. Then she tackles a question that hits close to home: between Elon Musk's giant SpaceX IPO and an S&P 500 now concentrated in just seven AI-driven giants, how much AI risk is quietly sitting in our retirement accounts? She shares what respected voices are saying and simple steps to check your own exposure. Her weekly pick: Jon Stewart's Weekly Show with Cory Doctorow, on AI, "enshittification," and learned helplessness.

Pull up a chair, bring your curiosity, and listen wherever you get your podcasts.

SHOW LINKS

🔗 "Apple's Siri Got an A.I. Brain Transplant. Try These 5 Prompts to Get Acclimated" (The New York Times, Brian X. Chen, July 30, 2026): https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/technology/personaltech/apple-siri-ai-prompts.html

🔗 "Sick of A.I.-Generated Content? The 'Slop Janitor' Is Here to Help" (The New York Times, Niko Gallogly, July 29, 2026): https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/business/dealbook/pangram-ai-slop-detection.html

🔗 The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart — "AI and the Enshittification Era with Cory Doctorow" (July 29, 2026): https://youtu.be/-dAIJRjb-Bw?si=tm8w0fbKBf3Bp3P_

Chapters

00:00 Welcome and Preview

01:39 Siri AI Brain Upgrade

05:06 Slop Janitor Explained

06:43 Listener Note and Thanks

07:52 Projects Why They Matter

13:46 Projects Setup Guide

17:11 Project Ideas and Examples

20:37 AI Bubble and Retirement Risk

28:52 Weekly Pick Jon Stewart

33:36 Wrap Up and Safety Tips

aiGED: AI for the 65+ crowd