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Dear AI, We Were Wondering...
One of the best ways to start exploring tools such as Claude, Google's Gemini or ChatGPT is to ask each about how they operate, what the opportunities…
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Shannon Edwards
What the Prompt? How AI News is Making us Crazy 😵‍💫
It's not the tools, it's our response to them right now. Big Tech is driving a mack truck through society, spreading AI hype out its exhaust pipe, and…
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Shannon Edwards
This Week: Archdiocese of New York's AI Warning Butts up Against School Social Media Content 🤔
Even well-intended, on-the-right-track concerns about *AI* these days often seem out of step with what it really means to protect ourselves and our…
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Shannon Edwards
AI Fundamentals: How to Define Artificial Intelligence
One of the biggest obstacles to understanding, agreeing upon & harnessing the potential of AI is in understanding it plainly. How to understand it one…
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Shannon Edwards
How AI Uses Our Data: An Overview
PRESENTATION 👩🏼‍🏫 As AI creates demand for consumer data, our ability to reasonably consider what we share can be hampered by a lack of understanding…
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Shannon Edwards
Surrealism or Spam? How "AI Slop" is Overwhelming the Internet
We've gone from viral dances, and dumb pranks to a freak show of "AI slop." It's a growing wasteland of mind-bending garbage filling social media. What…
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Shannon Edwards
What I Learned at Netflix, and Felt About Anora: An Oscars AI Parable
There was a technology story that was a bit more under-the-radar at the 2025 Oscars, but it's a lesson worth digging into…
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Shannon Edwards
My Interview with ChatGPT About Building AI Literacy for Parents and Caregivers
From AI 'detector' misfires to how teachers can best use AI in the classroom, what better way to get answers and illustrate gen AI's utility, than to…
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Shannon Edwards
Will AI Really Bring Robots to our Lives Soon?
Billions in investment are flowing into the development of humanoids, but who is preparing actual humans for the psychological threat & existential…
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Shannon Edwards
Training AI With Our Data and Implications for Child Data Privacy
The savvy lot reading this will wonder if the data used for digital marketing purposes is really so different than the data culled to train AI? Well, a…
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Shannon Edwards
Generative AI News and Irony of Google "Don't Be Evil" Motto
I clocked the problem with Google's AI last year and it's not a *bug* but a feature of a company that never intended to be the arbiter of what is "evil…
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Shannon Edwards
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