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AI agents are huge timesavers. But also: BE REALLY CAREFUL about how much agency you give them. Witness Summer Yue, Safety and Alignment Chief at Meta’s Superintelligence Lab, whose own AI agent tried to delete all her e-mails. You read that right: Meta’s AI Safety Chief gave an AI agent control of her inbox, including …
HIPAA is a tricky subject for clinicians. It covers any digital transmission of personal healthcare information (PHI). It’s complex. And it’s easy to violate: sending a text message to a patient can violate HIPAA. So can an e-mail. Putting those disclaimer footers at the bottom of your e-mail? Nope, definitely not sufficient to protect yourself …
Are your best intentions sabotaging your presentation? 😬 You’ve got such great information for your audience. You spent all week putting together your masterpiece of a deck. So why does it feel like you’re losing them? And [gasp] was that a YAWN? 😱 Here’s the thing: sometimes when we try to help our audience learn, …
I’m seeing a dangerous trend right now: using AI fakes to protest AI problems. It goes like this: someone shares a personal experience of AI’s biases, sometimes with utterly racist or misogynistic results. Often the post includes an expert offer to help people navigate this new world. And to illustrate the story, they include a …
The wonderful people at The Upside used AI to create a haiku about me, based on my professional bio. While I’m grateful as always for their support, I almost didn’t post it. But it’s just too good an opportunity to pass up! Feels like it hit some of the right marks — science, tech, change! …
How did you take care of yourself today? I’m watching the clouds go by and listening to the rustling of the leaves. Been at it about 25 minutes now. Mental note: do this WAY more often. (Really: what did you do for yourself today?)
You don’t paint a wall with a hammer. With AI, as with everything, you find the right tool for the job. My last post showed why ChatGPT and Gemini were the “hammer” for factual analysis. For this project, the “paintbrush” was NotebookLM. Which was no surprise. There’s a huge difference in how these AIs work.🌐 …
Lesson learned: for factual analysis, consumer-grade AIs like ChatGPT and Gemini can be dangerously unreliable. The project: create an AI study partner for the California psychology licensing exam, feeding in over 1,000 pages of dense legal text plus strict rules to ONLY use the sources provided. And it had to be an off-the-shelf AI with …
AI and learning? Everything has changed. And nothing has. The “everything” is obvious: AI tutors, automated assessments, rampant cheating, legit fear of replacement, and the potential of truly individualized learning. The learning landscape is facing enormous disruption. And yet: A few of the constants:👉 Intentionality: Great learning requires meaningful goals and meaningful assessment built from …
Learning isn’t learning if it doesn’t create change. It’s a core belief that’s driven more than two decades of my work. And it’s why I’m so honored to be included in The Upside‘s 2025 Impact Index alongside some other truly impactful experts. Because impactful learning isn’t magic. It’s engineered. Because it’s eminently achievable when it’s …
Forgetting is a path to remembering. 🧠💪 Last week I posted about my recent CPLEE project: building a tech-infused, learning science-informed approach to passing a licensing exam. Today let’s talk about some of the learning science I used and how it can help you! We’ve all learned something and then immediately forgotten it. The name …
Critical thinking with AI?Don’t trust. VERIFY! (👆 there’s your AI mantra for the week) I just came up for air after a lengthy project helping someone study for the California Psychology Laws and Ethics Exam (CPLEE), the licensing exam for psychologists who practice in CA. They’d already tried one of the 3rd party exam prep …
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