AI with Kyle Daily Update 039
Today in AI: Bereaved parents sue OpenAI + How teachers are using AI
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⚖️ Parents Sue OpenAI After Teen's Suicide
The parents of 16-year-old Adam Raine are suing OpenAI after their son took his own life, allegedly following conversations with ChatGPT. The case shows selective chat excerpts including the teen asking for advice on improving a noose.
Kyle's take: This is going to be a messy case regardless of the legal outcome. OpenAI's official response was more open than expected - they admitted safeguards can degrade in long conversations rather than just offering non-binding corporate “thoughts and prayers”.
With 700 million users, tragic incidents become statistically inevitable, but that doesn't make them less devastating.
It seems to be the case though is that the young man circumvented safety guidelines by claiming to create a fictional character with suicidal thoughts. ChatGPT also gave him crisis support numbers on a number of occasions. If this is true then I don’t see this going far in court.
Regardless, both pro-AI and anti-AI sides are using this as ammunition to make their preferred point whilst forgetting a young man lost his life and parents are grieving. We need more balanced information before drawing conclusions. And we need to remember these are people - not just evidence to prove a point.
Source: NBC News
📊 Stanford Study: AI Hitting Junior Jobs First
New Stanford research claims to find the first statistical evidence that AI is actually affecting employment, specifically targeting entry-level positions for workers aged 22-25. The study shows employment declining in jobs where AI automates rather than augments work, whilst overall employment continues growing.
Kyle's take: This study fits my thoughts about the pyramid collapsing from the bottom but it’s still early days in terms of the data. I personally think predict this is the way AI will hit the economy - from the bottom up - but that’s speculative.
Remember too that AI is a very convenient excuse for CEOs to justify layoffs. Is it genuine AI displacement or just a good scapegoat for poor hiring decisions?
The pattern makes sense - junior roles doing repetitive tasks are easiest to automate - but correlation isn't causation yet. As we start to see more data like this we’ll have a clearer picture.
🎓 Teachers Using AI Right: Admin, Not Instruction
Anthropic analysed 74,000 real educator conversations and found teachers primarily use Claude for curriculum development, administrative tasks, and creating educational tools like quizzes. Crucially, they're delegating boring admin work whilst retaining creative control over actual teaching, advising, and instruction.
Kyle's take: This is exactly what we want to see. Teachers spend enormous amounts of unpaid time on lesson prep and admin - often working through holidays just to get ready for term.
Using AI to cut through that bureaucratic nonsense means they enter classrooms with more energy for, you know, actual teaching! A novel idea.
This is the boring but important AI news that actually shows how AI can help society Unfortunately it’s quiet and subtle and (understandably) won't get the headlines that suicide cases do.
Source: Anthropic education report
Member Question: "Is AI consulting your only job?"
Kyle's response: I don't have a job! I’m basically unemployable.
Instead I have a business with about six revenue streams, and AI consulting is just one piece.
Here's how it breaks down: First, I give workshops to organisations at ~£1,500 per hour base rate (I've been paid up to $4,000 for an hour). Second, I license my workshop material to about 100 people who can then give workshops themselves and earn a couple thousand dollars an hour. Third, there's content creation - this daily newsletter, YouTube, TikTok - which generates platform payments plus premium offerings. Fourth, I run courses helping people use AI for entrepreneurship specifically. Fifth, there's some direct AI consulting and advisory work, though I avoid most hourly stuff because it eats up time. Sixth, various other products and services that can scale without me trading time directly for money.
The key is building multiple streams so you're not dependent on any single one - we don’t know what AI is going to do to business and economy moving forward so my bet is on staying flexible by having a range of income streams on the go.
FYI I’m giving a webinar on AI workshops for businesses next week. Tuesday and Thursday 6PM London time.
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