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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 epi...

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...

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 DeepMi...

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...

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 —...

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 m...

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...

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 h...

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 b...

You’ve got questions about AI — and you are definitely not alone. This week on aiGED, Ginny Deerin opens the very first aiGED Mailbag, answering the real questions listeners have sent in about living with AI, all in plain, friendly English for the 65+ crowd and anyone just getting started. Together with her sidekick Bitsy, Ginny tackles the things people actually wonder about but feel a little sil...

This week on aiGED, two stories collide in a way I didn't expect. Apple just sued OpenAI, accusing it of stealing trade secrets — the ugly end to a partnership that once seemed so promising. And in the same week, OpenAI rolled out a voice assistant that can finally talk and listen at the same time, instead of taking turns like a walkie-talkie. Both stories set up the real question I wanted to...

What happens when a major AI model gets shut down worldwide with ninety minutes' notice? This week on aiGED, we go a little deeper than usual — a two-part look at whether America is actually positioned to keep its lead in AI, starting with the regulatory whiplash of the past three years. We trace the rules from Biden's 2023 executive order, through Trump's reversal and his administr...

Back by popular demand — the episode format listeners keep asking for.  Episode 30, "14 Things I Did With AI This Week," was our most popular episode ever. Today we're doing it again with Episode 44: 12 real, concrete things Ginny has done with Claude AI over the past couple of weeks — tech troubleshooting, health questions, craft projects, a mystery credit card charge from Italy, g...

What if your AI didn't just answer your questions — but actually made things? This week on aiGED, we go behind the scenes of how Ginny produces this podcast every Tuesday morning, using it as a window into one of the biggest shifts happening in AI right now: agents. We break down what makes an AI agent different from a regular chatbot, how to give one access to your files, and why a simple do...

If you’ve been hearing words like “enshittification,” “slop,” or “vibe coding” and smiling politely like you know exactly what they mean — this episode is for you. Ginny Deerin brings a baker’s dozen of AI words and phrases worth knowing: thirteen terms that explain not just the technology, but the world it’s creating around us. The main topic is a guided tour through 13 AI terms, from the technic...

If you have an iPhone, this one is for you. Apple just held its big annual event — WWDC 2026 — and for the first time in a long time, Siri actually delivered. Not a small update. A real overhaul. The kind that might actually change how you use your phone every day.  In this episode, Ginny walks you through everything that happened at Apple’s developer conference — including a goodbye to someone wh...

You've heard it plenty of times — AI is going to transform medicine, cure cancer, change everything. And then you open the health section of your favorite newspaper and... nothing. No AI. Just doctors, researchers, and breakthroughs. So which is it? In this episode of aiGED, Ginny makes the case that the AI revolution in medicine isn't coming. It's already here — you just need to kn...

AI and jobs. It’s the conversation nobody wanted to have — and now everybody is having. In this episode of aiGED, host Ginny Deerin digs into what’s really happening to the job market: the layoffs, the industries being transformed, and the jobs we thought were safe that aren’t. From Wall Street banks shedding 15,000 employees while posting record profits, to a French factory that just made electri...

aiGED: AI for the 65+ crowd

Recording from a little apartment in Pienza, Italy, host Ginny Deerin reads an open letter — out loud, on air — to Kevin Frazier, the law professor who wrote “Your grandma should be using AI” for Fortune magazine. She agrees with a lot of it. She has a few thoughts about the rest. And she has an invitation. Also in this episode: Apple is planning to let iPhone users choose their own AI this fall —...

I'm reporting live from Pienza — a tiny, gorgeous, medieval town in Tuscany where the wine is excellent and the internet is, as my mother would say, S-H-I-TTY. Real-time voice conversations with Claude? Absolutely not happening. But my AI has still been incredibly useful out here — just not in the ways I expected. This week I'm sharing eight things I've used Claude for since landing...

My friend, Bill, isn’t a tech expert — he’s a consultant, pickleball player, and self-described regular guy who started using AI and never looked back. He calls his ChatGPT assistant “John,” and the two of them have something he only half-jokingly calls a bromance. In this episode, Bill shares how he uses AI for business reports, travel planning, tax calculations, writing an obituary for a friend,...

I’m heading to Italy (Rome, Pienza and Florence) at the end of April for a month with my three siblings — and Claude has been my behind-the-scenes planning partner. This week I’m sharing 11 real things I asked my AI to help me with: from TSA rules for power banks and Italian electrical adapters, to turning a friend’s detailed Rome notes into two walking tours, cracking coffee bar etiquette, and ge...

If you have grandkids, great-grandkids, or kids down the street, this episode is for you. Ginny has been doing a lot of reading on what AI might actually do to our schools — not in a vague, hand-wavy way, but in a real, picture-by-picture way. What could a classroom look like in three to five years? What happens to college? And what does any of this mean for the kids we love? That’s what this epis...

On April 7th, Anthropic announced Claude Mythos — described as “by far the most powerful AI model we’ve ever developed.” But instead of releasing it to the public, they locked it away. In this episode, Ginny explains what Mythos can do, why it matters to everyday people, and what the emergency meeting between the U.S. Treasury, the Federal Reserve, and America’s biggest banks was all about. Mythos...