AI Literacy
Learn the new language
Treat AI as a third literacy, alongside reading and math. It isn't about writing code — it's about knowing where its limits are, how it actually works, and how to work with it: asking good questions, judging what comes back, knowing which tool to reach for.
That's what keeps you driving the collaboration, instead of getting pulled along by the tech.
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A Plain-English Guide to Leading a Team of Agents
Someone spun up a six-agent team and burned through 40% of a week's quota on day one — three of the bots were re-checking the same pages. 'One agent works great, so a squad must work even better' — most of the time, it doesn't.
#Technology#Agents#Organization
A Plain-English Guide to Working With Agents
A dialog box pops up — 'Agent requests permission to modify 12 files. Allow / Deny' — and your hand is already on Allow. The real question was never how to talk to AI. It's how to work with something that can act on your behalf.
#Technology#Agents#Judgment
A Plain-English Guide to Agents That Can Actually Get Things Done
Same word, 'AI' — so why could last year's version only chat, while this year's takes on the whole job? What decides whether an AI can act usually isn't the chip itself, but the operating system built around it.
#Technology#Agents#AI Safety
A Plain-English Guide to Picking an AI Product
The thing you use every day isn't the model — it's the product. Understanding the six patches bolted onto every chat product is how you pick the right one out of a crowd that all call themselves intelligent.
#Technology#AI Literacy#Large Language Models
The Blackmail That Wasn't: Inside AI's Most Misread Stress Test
The screenshot of Claude blackmailing an executive has circulated for over a year. Back at the experiment itself: researchers built a dead end on purpose — and a year later, Anthropic drove the behavior from 96% to zero.
#Technology#AI Safety#Media Literacy
Ten Minutes, $600,000: How a Face and a Voice Hijacked Trust Itself
He recognized the face on the video call, and he recognized the voice. Ten minutes later, 4.3 million yuan was gone. Once synthesis gets cheap enough, seeing and hearing stop being evidence.
#Technology#AI Safety#Judgment
A Plain-English Guide to Talking to AI Well
Talking to an AI is nothing like using a search box. Four moves — Delegation, Description, Discernment, Diligence — turn a prompt into a working division of labour.
#Technology#AI Literacy#The 4D Framework
A Plain-English Guide to Large Language Models
An LLM's brilliance and its confident nonsense come from the same mechanism. Take the six steps apart and you can see exactly how a sentence gets generated.
#Technology#AI Literacy#Large Language Models
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