aiGED

Ginny Deerin

The first—and only—podcast made for the 65-plus crowd that is all about ai.

  1. 2d ago ·  Video

    AI Rules Keep Changing — Is America Losing the Lead?

    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 administration's “move fast” approach, to this June's Claude Fable 5 shutdown and the voluntary framework that followed. Then we turn to power — literally, the electricity AI needs to run — and why China is racing ahead on clean energy while U.S. investment in science and energy research pulls back. Ginny lays out, in plain terms, what she thinks needs to happen on both fronts. In AI in the News: a new AI-powered scam targeting air conditioner shoppers this summer, and a survey showing nurses are using AI more than ever but still don't trust it with patient care. In AI for Good, Meta is donating AI glasses to every blind veteran in America. Plus, Ginny's recommendations, tied to a conversation she heard this week between Ezra Klein and environmentalist Bill McKibben. If you've ever wondered whether the government is actually keeping up with AI — or whether America's even trying to keep its lead — this episode is for you. Listen wherever you get your podcasts. SHOW LINKS 🔗 Air Conditioner Scams (Forbes, Steve Weisman, July 5, 2026): https://www.forbes.com/sites/steveweisman/2026/07/05/how-ai-is-fueling-a-new-wave-of-air-conditioner-scams/ 🔗 Nurses and AI Survey (The Washington Post, Gerrit De Vynck, July 7, 2026): https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/07/07/most-nurses-say-ai-isnt-good-enough-trust-with-patient-care-survey/  🔗 Meta Donates AI Glasses to Blind Veterans (Deseret News, Emily Walker, July 7, 2026): https://www.deseret.com/business/2026/07/07/meta-donates-glasses-to-blind-american-veterans/ 🔗 Executive Order 14409 (The White House, June 2, 2026): https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2026/06/promoting-advanced-artificial-intelligence-innovation-and-security/ 🔗 Global Electricity Review 2026 (Ember, April 21, 2026): https://ember-energy.org/latest-insights/global-electricity-review-2026/ 🔗 “The Very Good and Very Bad News on Climate” (The Ezra Klein Show, The New York Times, July 10, 2026): https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/10/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-bill-mckibben.html 🔗 Here Comes the Sun by Bill McKibben: https://billmckibben.com/books/here-comes-the-sun/ 🔗 Third Act (organizing people over 60 on climate): https://thirdact.org/ Chapters 00:00 Welcome to aiGED 02:53 AC Scam Alert 05:13 Nurses and AI Trust 06:47 AI Glasses for Veterans 08:10 Big Picture AI Race 09:35 Rules and Whiplash 16:38 Powering AI with Energy 22:22 What Needs to Change 24:46 Take Action and Resources 26:07 Wrap Up and Safety Tips aiGED: AI for the 65+ crowd

  2. Jul 7 ·  Video

    12 Things I Did With Claude AI This Week: Printers, Skin Spots, Embroidery

    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, garden planning with her grandson, and more.  This episode also features real examples from listeners who wrote in with their own AI stories: planning a 50th anniversary trip to France, finding printable piano music, and using Claude to work through affordable housing policy.  In AI in the News: Anthropic is entering the drug development space with a new tool called Claude Science. And a pediatric surgeon just wrote a book about AI in the nursery — Human Raised by Dr. Dana Suskind — coming July 14th.  aiGED is AI for the 65+ crowd. Real talk, no jargon. 00:00 Welcome to aiGED 00:49 Episode Preview 02:23 AI News Anthropic Drugs 04:38 AI News Kids and AI 07:34 Back to 12 Examples 08:35 Tech Fixes Fast 10:14 Money and Health Checks 11:52 Garden and Craft Help 12:59 Bouquet Art Director 15:02 Projects and Setup Tips 16:23 Listener AI Wins 19:50 Quick Recommendations 22:07 Closing Thoughts aiGED: AI for the 65+ crowd

  3. Jun 30 ·  Video

    AI Agents Explained: What They Do and How to Start

    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 document changes everything for ongoing work. Then we look at what an agent could do for you — organizing medical records, comparing contractor quotes, tackling a family history project — followed by an honest look at where agents fall short and why you should never hand one your credit card number. In AI in the News: ChatGPT has lost its majority share of the AI market for the first time since it launched in 2022 — and there's a check fraud scheme targeting mail that's worth knowing about right now. In AI for Good, an AI program flagged a heart condition that doctors missed in a busy emergency room, and a team in Louisiana is using AI to help keep Cajun French from disappearing. Plus a low-tech recommendation from Ginny about eating without a screen. If you've been curious about AI agents but couldn't quite picture what they look like in practice — this episode is for you. Listen or watch wherever you get your podcasts. Chapters 00:00 Welcome to aiGED 00:43 Episode Preview 01:23 AI Market Share Shifts 02:51 Check Fraud Warning 05:52 AI for Good Stories 10:13 What Are AI Agents 12:54 Context Documents Explained 16:48 Chat vs CoWork 19:02 My Podcast Workflow 23:15 Agents Beyond Podcasting 24:46 Limits and Safety 26:31 Anti Screen Habit Tip 27:20 Final Wrap Up aiGED: AI for the 65+ crowd

  4. Jun 23

    13 AI Words Explained: From Slop to Enshittification

    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 technical (context window, AI agents, compute power) to the brilliantly descriptive (slop, shadow AI, enshittification). You’ll learn what token maxing really means — including the part about ranking employees by how much AI they use. You’ll find out why “taste” might be the most valuable thing you bring to work in the age of AI, and what makes hyperstition one of the most mind-bending concepts of our time. Ginny also explains why enshittification isn’t just for apps and platforms — hardware goes through it too — and closes with AI-washing, the practice of slapping “powered by AI” on things that aren’t. In AI in the News, Ginny covers humanoid robots now being produced at one per hour and Goldman Sachs’ staggering $7.6 trillion AI infrastructure forecast. In AI for Good, she shares two stories connected by the same big idea: AI detecting eye disease before vision fails, and buildings that may soon have “immune systems” that sense airborne pathogens before people get sick. And in Recommendations, Ginny issues a personal challenge — and suggests a surprisingly meditative outing involving a 3D printer. If AI sometimes feels like a conversation you’re not quite in on, this episode is your way in. Listen wherever you get your podcasts. Show Links 🤖 Humanoid Robots Touted as Next AI Investment Opportunity – CNBC: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/03/humanoid-robots-trillion-dollar-ai-market.html 💰 Tracking Trillions: Goldman Sachs AI Infrastructure Report: https://www.goldmansachs.com/insights/articles/tracking-trillions-the-assumptions-shaping-scale-of-the-ai-build-out 👁️ ZenkoLab – AI Ophthalmology Diagnostics: https://www.zenkolab.dev/ 🏢 Buildings May Soon Have ‘Immune Systems’ That Fight Airborne Disease – NYT: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/19/science/indoor-air-viruses-bacteria.html 💩 On the Media: Enshittification (3-part series with Cory Doctorow): https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/projects/enshitification Chapters 00:00 Welcome to Episode 42 01:18 Humanoid Robots Arrive 02:32 Trillions for AI Infrastructure 04:23 AI for Good Spotlight 06:56 13 AI Terms Intro 07:37 Tokens and Context Limits 11:14 Hallucinations and Slop 13:47 Prompting and Vibe Coding 15:40 Compute Power and Agents 18:42 Shadow AI and Human Taste 21:47 Hyperstition and Enshittification 25:49 AI Washing Explained 28:52 Weekly Recommendations 31:45 Wrap Up and Takeaways aiGED: AI for the 65+ crowd

  5. Jun 16

    Apple Finally Fixed Siri: What to Try Right Now

    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 who made Apple what it is. You’ll learn exactly what changed with Siri, what Apple Intelligence means for your iPhone, and — in the biggest news of the event — why Apple is now letting you choose which AI you want to use: ChatGPT, Claude, Google’s Gemini, or others. Ginny covers what you can try right now and what you’ll need to wait for this fall, with honest, practical guidance and no tech jargon required.  Also in this episode: one billion people are now using ChatGPT every single month — Ginny explains what that number actually means for the rest of us. Plus, President Trump and Senator Bernie Sanders just agreed on something involving AI, and it’s one of those stories you won’t see coming. And Ginny wraps up with a recommendation that has nothing to do with AI: Season 2 of The Four Seasons on Netflix just dropped, and it is worth every minute.  Whether you’re an iPhone faithful or just AI-curious, this episode will leave you knowing exactly what to do next. Listen wherever you get your podcasts. SHOW LINKS: 🔗 ChatGPT 1 Billion Users — Quartz: https://qz.com/chatgpt-billion-monthly-users-rivals-gaining-061226 🔗 Trump + Sanders on AI Ownership — Fortune: https://fortune.com/2026/06/05/trump-partnership-openai-anthropic-xai-nationalization-bernie-sanders-altman/ 🔗 The Four Seasons on Netflix: https://www.netflix.com/title/81750702 CHAPTERS 00:00 Welcome and Preview 01:17 ChatGPT Hits One Billion 03:06 Trump and Bernie on AI 05:13 WWDC Big Moment 05:54 Siri Frustration Era 07:26 Tim Cook Steps Down 08:59 Siri Rebuilt With Gemini 11:11 Choose Your AI Brain 13:20 Try Now vs Fall 16:25 New iPhone Features 18:33 Privacy and Policies 20:51 Netflix Four Seasons 22:41 Final Wrap and Advice aiGED: AI for the 65+ crowd

  6. Jun 9

    AI in Medicine: The Breakthroughs Hiding in Plain Sight

    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 know where to look. Using two recent New York Times stories as her guide — one about predicting lung cancer five years before diagnosis, another about editing human embryo DNA with unprecedented precision — Ginny shows exactly how AI is powering the most exciting medical advances of our time without ever getting the headline. Along the way, she explains what "machine learning" actually means when it shows up buried in a scientific article, and why the generation that watched computers quietly change everything is perfectly positioned to recognize this pattern. Also in this episode: two exercises from a neuroscientist you've probably never tried (one involves smelling things), and a 72-year-old who is still running experiments on his own life and finally found five habits that stuck — not because they required discipline, but because they didn't. In AI for Good, two AI tools are predicting hunger crises and child malnutrition before they happen, from 95 countries down to individual villages. And Ginny's recommendation comes straight from her farmers market haul — including a mouse situation she handled with a quick photo and a question to Claude. If you've been waiting for AI to show up in the medical news you read every week — it already has. Tune in and you'll never miss it again. Listen wherever you get your podcasts. SHOW LINKS: 📰 "I'm a Neuroscientist..." — The Medium (subscription required: $5/mo or $50/yr) https://medium.com/in-fitness-and-in-health/im-a-neuroscientist-i-do-these-3-overlooked-exercises-daily-to-age-better-6d930fe7f0f7 📰 "I'm 72 and Still Running Experiments..." — The Medium (subscription required: $5/mo or $50/yr) https://medium.com/illumination-retirement-aging-legacy/im-72-and-still-running-experiments-on-my-own-life-2555638cdf7b CHAPTERS: 00:00 Welcome Back Bitsy 01:43 AI News Aging Exercises 03:52 Smell Memory Link 04:28 Life Experiments at 72 06:14 AI for Good Spotlight 07:50 Breakthroughs Hiding Plain Sight 09:06 New York Times AI Footnotes 12:16 AI in the Exam Room 16:17 Farmers Market AI Tips 17:47 Listener Question AI Power 19:11 Homework and Wrap Up aiGED: AI for the 65+ crowd

  7. Jun 2

    AI Is Reshaping Work for Everyone - From Wall Street to the Electrician Next Door

    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 electricians optional, the examples are real and they’re everywhere. But there’s a hopeful side to this story too. Stanford economist Erik Brynjolfsson argues that companies using AI to make workers more productive — rather than just replacing them — actually get bigger gains. We look at a real company doing exactly that, and what it means for the rest of us. Plus: a line that stopped Ginny cold — “You may not be interested in AI, but AI is interested in you.” Also in this episode: Pope Leo XIV weighs in on AI and human dignity in his first encyclical. A delightful piece on how to be old (and grab the chicken leg). Two AI for Good stories — one about a potential one-shot cholesterol treatment, and one about blind riders experiencing independence through Waymo. And Ginny’s recommendation: put down the screen and get crafty. It’s never too late to learn something new — especially something that might make life easier, and especially more fun. SHOW LINKS: NYT: Main Takeaways From Pope Leo’s Encyclical on A.I. — https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/25/us/pope-leo-encyclical-highlights.html NYT: How to Be Old — https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/25/opinion/aging-advice.html NYT: A.I. Doesn’t Have to Mean Layoffs — https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/29/business/economy/ai-jobs-productivity.html Chapters 00:00 Welcome Back From Italy 01:07 AI Commencement Surprise 02:31 Pope On AI And Dignity 05:21 How To Be Old 06:46 AI For Good Highlights 08:46 Jobs Reality Check 09:55 Banking Job Cuts 11:56 Beyond Banks And Hiring Freeze 13:39 Trades Aren't Immune 15:08 Hopeful Path Forward 18:44 Chief Question Officer Future 21:41 Get Crafty Recommendation 23:08 New Bitsy And Signoff aiGED: AI for the 65+ crowd

  8. May 28

    Ep 38 - AI in Tuscany: 10 Real Ways Claude Helped in Italy

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The first—and only—podcast made for the 65-plus crowd that is all about ai.

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  • Creator
    Ginny Deerin
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    47
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