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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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 — whether that’s Claude, Gemini, or sticking with Apple’s own. Ginny explains why more competition is actually great news for the 65+ crowd.

Two recommendations this week: why Ginny is building a life timeline with AI’s help while traveling in Italy with her siblings — and AllTrails, the hiking app that put her in the middle of a Tuscany wheat field she never would have found on her own.

SHOW LINKS:

Fortune article by Kevin Frazier: https://fortune.com/2026/05/13/ai-elderly-seniors-policy-waymo-elliq-loneliness-gap/

AllTrails: https://www.alltrails.com

Apple iOS 27 AI story (TechCrunch): https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/05/apple-plans-to-make-ios-27-a-choose-your-own-adventure-of-ai-models/

CHAPTERS

00:00 Welcome From Tuscany
00:22 iPhone AI Choice Coming
02:05 Why It Matters Seniors
02:57 Fortune Article Setup
03:37 Letter From Pienza
05:18 Where I Push Back
06:04 ElliQ And Real Needs
06:30 Invitation To Kevin
07:27 Recommendations And Links
07:39 Build Your Life Timeline
09:15 Wrap Up And Safety

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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 in Italy, and almost all of them involve pointing my phone camera at something I don't understand. A washing machine with Italian dials. A church sign in Italian. A medicine box from the farmacia. A local art exhibit poster. Plants along a trail. Each time, a quick photo and a simple question got me exactly what I needed — no WiFi required.

Also this week: two recommendations worth adding to your travel toolkit. First, a heartfelt case for taking a trip with your siblings — and why a month in Tuscany has turned into a masterclass in family history. And second, the AllTrails app, which led me on a walk through wheat fields so gorgeous they looked like a postcard.

Come join me in Tuscany.

SHOW LINKS: 🥾 AllTrails: https://www.alltrails.com

CHAPTERS

00:00 Welcome From Tuscany
01:02 Internet Reality Check
02:42 AI Travel Wins
03:37 Photo Translation Tricks
05:16 Everyday Problem Solving
06:13 Keep Expectations Grounded
06:38 Trip With Siblings
08:06 AllTrails Hiking App
10:12 Closing Thoughts And Safety

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