Welcome to the AI For Humans newsletter!

There was an incredible, positive story about AI this week that the vast majority of you missed.

Why did you miss it? Well, it’s complicated, but let’s not get ahead of ourselves.

Postvisit.ai is a new, Claude-created website from Dr. Michal Nedoszytko that helps patients gather and track all notes regarding their care.

It came in third in last month’s Claude Hackathon.

He made it himself using Claude Code & the sorts of agentic coding tools we’ve discussed here.

The great thing about PostVisit is that this sort of thing that might actually make a difference in human lives right now, not some imagined (but still very possible) future where advanced artificial intelligence cures cancer.

But, again, most of you haven’t heard about this.

And that’s a major problem.

Why? Well, because what you are starting to hear about… not only from the leaders of the AI space but from politicians and cultural figures is how AI will change everything fast and lead to significant human job loss.

If AI is going to change the world as quickly as it seems, then someone needs to start mentioning the upside… fast.

Please support AI For Humans by learning about our sponsors below:

Founders spend too much time drafting the same kinds of messages. Wispr Flow turns spoken thinking into final-draft writing so you can record investor updates, product briefs, and run-of-the-mill status notes by voice. Use saved snippets for recurring intros, insert calendar links by voice, and keep comms consistent across the team. It preserves your tone, fixes punctuation, and formats lists so you send confident messages fast. Works on Mac, Windows, and iPhone. Try Wispr Flow for founders.

Start flowing free

You have most likely seen the viral ‘Something Big Is Happening’ post.

We’ve discussed it but so has most of the media world.

The thing that made this travel and have normal people take it seriously is that they’d been hearing for a long time that AI was going to be a thing.

But it hadn’t really settled in how it would affect them.

Something Big took that feeling and then wrapped it in the reality of a specific job (coding) and packaged it nicely in a scary narrative for the world.

People, naturally, started extrapolating: ‘What if I’m next? What then?’

Even crazier is this new piece that just last night went viral in the world of tech and financial twitter.

It’s a deep dive on how even if the AI intelligence explosion works as planned, our entire financial system could come crashing down. And, reader, it is frightening.

But the story that really got me this week was the Paul Ford’s Opinion piece in the NY Times.

This one is less ‘this mysterious thing coming for us all is around the corner’ and more concrete examples of complex work that Paul, a prominent web developer, can now do via vibecoding himself.

Work that his company could’ve charged tens of thousands of dollars for.

When it get clear that AIs will start to do meaningful, paid human work, the kind that pays for food, shelter, children, etc, it matters to normal people.

This is the kind of messaging that breaks through.

And those paying close attention are starting to feel that the AI companies need some significant upside arguments soon or public opinion will turn quickly.

Nate Silver, founder of Five Thirty Eight, recently observed:

The good news is that there really are positive stories about how AI is making a difference right now and, clearly, will lead to positive change in the near future.

However, it’s getting harder and harder to get the tech companies to understand how their current messaging might be failing for the mainstream.

Just last week OpenAI’s CEO Sam Altman caused another minor controversy when answering a question about AI’s energy use with an reply of how much energy it takes to raise a human baby.

Giving Sam the benefit out the doubt, it sounds a bit like he was joking but also… maybe not?

It’s hard to hear an answer like this and not feel like these companies are out of touch.

After all, not everyone cares whether or not the AI god can solve complicated math problems or work for months at a time.

Most people just want to feed their familes and feel like their kids will have a better life.

Love this newsletter? Forward it to one curious friend. They can join in one click.

It’s not that hard.

AI companies need to show people that AI advances will make a real difference in their lives and the lives of their children.

There have been big scientific announcements from some of these companies but I’d argue that we need more of these. Of course, easy for me to say.

More importantly, when these do happen, like say AI helping better detect Alzheimer’s disease, they need to be on it.

And maybe they need some employees dedicated to only this:

I cannot stress how important this is going to be over the next 12 to 18 months.

It’s easy to imagine a world where the unemployment number steadily rises as these AI companies get more and more financially successful.

It’s less easy to imagine a world where the bounty of these systems makes lives for everyone (as a society) better and easier.

But that is the stated goal of why these companies are pursuing AGI in the first place.

I’m optimistic we’ll start to see these advances come soon and, when they do, they’ll start coming quickly.

But it’s already an uphill battle so… they’d better get louder about it.

See y’all next Friday for a new episode!

-Gavin

This week’s AI For Humans: AI is upgrading extremely fast and we dive into the chaos we might see soon.👇

Every once in a while, I like to steal this section for myself.

Not because I need the ego boost (jk ofc I do!) but because it’s important to show y’all what a person with my limited skills can do with AI tools.

This weekend, I had a very dumb idea: What if chickens… fought back?

This entire process was about 90 minutes of work which very much blew my mind.

I generated a variety of video prompts (about 12) within the system with pretty basic things like ‘chickens attack a Starbucks’ or ‘millions of chickens swarm the streets of Manhattan’

Then I, the human, took all this raw footage, cut off the little bits and bobs that made it AI-ish, placed the clips in an order of my choosing, cut them to a music and off we went.

Seedance 2.0 does things that other systems don’t, making some choices that make it much easier to put something like this together. Even in the raw clips you can see some of what’s doing (along with some of the issues).

Now, yes, I’ve got a lifetime full of creative experience and so, for some of this, I have a shorthand… but even if you don’t, you can tell it’s much easier than shooting a film or wrangling ten thousand chickens.

Seedance 2.0 is not out yet (see above) but when it finally does come out, drop in a few bucks and get some time to play.