I also feel like we see the same debate play out in conversations about the war. The framing is almost always "us" OR "them", but the people I'm most persuaded by have moral clarity that it's "all of us"

I think you've put your finger on something I struggle with when I talk to people in my life: There are competing visions of safety as zero-sum game and safety as solidarity.

Hate crimes are up. People are scared. But which way they go is very telling.

Eat. Sleep. Exercise. Nurture the relationships that sustain you. Protect your health. Find joy. Don't mistake any of these for the resistance itself. Joy isn't resistance, neither is rest. But you need to be whole to resist for a lifetime.

Even worse!

They get to pretend they're accountable?

Is this ConEd by any chance?

Some things researchers can do:
- ask about specific tools or use cases or outputs
- discourse analysis to tease out what's included in "AI" policy documents, the media, etc.
- interviews and thinkalouds to suss out what people think "AI" is

What do we do if we're already a monthly donor and we desperately want a pin? Asking for ... a friend?

🥇 Black: The good, normal way to have coffee

🥈 Milk, no sugar: Not bad at all, but superfluous (unless the coffee is too strong)

🥉 Milk and sugar: Fine if I think of it not as coffee, but as a coffee-flavoured dessert (affogato lite?)

💩 Sugar, no milk: O gods this is vile, why would you do this

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5. The research consistently shows that explaining *how* AI was used is more valuable than stating *that* AI was used -- "AI" is a broad umbrella term that means different things to different audiences.

4. Covering AI effectively benefits from both understanding the technology deeply and hearing from the broadest possible range of stakeholders.

3. One big challenge for public understanding is that AI tools upend previous assumptions about how technology works: their outputs are not consistent (unlike, say, a calendar) and they're often "under the hood" such that people may not even know they're interacting with one.

2. The public needs a better understanding of different types of AI systems, their strengths and limitations, and how to critically evaluate their output. This is a real opportunity: journalism is one of the main ways people learn about new technology.