Every community has a few people who quietly raise the bar for everyone else. In the AI Salon, Stacie Lech is one of them. She leads our Education Hub and is the founder of AI Teacher School, where she builds AI-powered tools and curriculum innovations for K–12 districts after fifteen years in the classroom. When…
It’s time to show off your skills. Submit your AI-infused creative work—be it writing, music, imagery, or vibe coding—by attaching your finished piece to this thread between now and December 10th. Community voting will be open until December 14th. React with emojis to vote for your favorites. Four finalists will be selected to compete the…
There is a way children tell stories before they learn to hesitate. When my seven-year-old describes a fox that lives under the moon or a pirate who hates mangoes, he does not pause to check if it sounds practical. He simply says it. The idea stands on its own. In a recent session of my…
by: Daisy Thomas The Next Frontier of Ethics Is Reciprocity Alignment has become the watchword of AI ethics, a clean, technical way to talk about moral responsibility without naming who owes what to whom. But alignment is not enough. A system can align to outcomes and still harm the world around it. Reciprocity, by contrast,…
Gratitude has always been slow. It resists efficiency. It asks us to pause, to see, to name what sustains us. That’s what makes it dangerous in an age that wants everything—every feeling, every thought, every act of noticing—to be instant, optimized, and monetized. Gratitude, practiced fully, becomes a quiet rebellion against the automated world that…
Remember those slider puzzles we all played as kids? Well, thanks to Gemini and Nano Banana, now you can play the virtual version, with your own image or a generated one. Play here: https://ai.studio/apps/drive/1eN-m9QABtuPrioOz7SNRcDHYC1o7kYfY Courtesy of Brandon Tidd (btcompksu)
Many of our AI Salon members are just starting to discover the power and potential of NotebookLM’s reasoning engine, like this example from Rick McCawley
Congratulations to AI Salon member Joy Purdy for the debut of her film, Dancers in Suminagashi! As Joy stated: “Dancers in Suminagashi began as an experiment in fusion art and letting go of what a traditional dance film might look like. I wanted to create something minimal, modern, and new, like nothing quite made before.”…
The neutrality claim is the oldest trick in the empire of systems. Every generation builds a tool it swears is objective, then watches that tool reproduce the same hierarchies it claimed to transcend. IQ tests, maps, zoning laws, each was marketed as a mirror of truth. Each quietly drew its borders around who counts. AI…