aiGED

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

  1. 4d ago ·  Video

    13 Things I Did With My AI This Month: Mystery Droppings, Passwords & Puff Pastry Pizza

    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. SHOW LINKS🎾 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 CHAPTERS00:00 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

  2. Sep 29 ·  Video

    Instinct Surrender: Are AI Health Trackers Dulling Our Gut?

    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. SHOW LINKS 🎧 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 CHAPTERS00:00 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

  3. Sep 22 ·  Video

    AI Lingo: 13 Terms to Know, from Singularity to Context Rot

    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. SHOW LINKS 📰 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/ CHAPTERS00:00 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 aiGED: AI for the 65+ crowd

  4. Sep 15 ·  Video

    Is AI Going to Kill Us? Anthropic, OpenAI & Elon Musk Say Slow Down

    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

  5. Sep 8 ·  Video

    10 Things I Did With Claude AI This Week: Carrots, Medicare & the US Open

    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

  6. Sep 1 ·  Video

    AI for Crafters: 9 Handmade Hobbies It Actually Helps

    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

  7. Aug 25 ·  Video

    How AI Is Changing the Weather Forecast

    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

  8. Aug 18 ·  Video

    AI Lingo, Round Two: 20 Words to Keep You in the Conversation

    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

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  • Creator
    Ginny Deerin
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    59
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