AI, explained in plain English
Plain-English explainers about AI itself: what it can do today, what the research actually says about jobs, and what superintelligence means. Every number and quote from published research links to its source, so you can check our homework.
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What can AI actually do right now? (and what it still can't)
Today's free AI chat tools are good at drafting, rewriting, summarizing, planning, and explaining things, as long as you give them real details and check what comes back. They still make confident mistakes, don't reliably know today's facts or prices, slip on math, and can't make judgment calls about your life. This page shows both sides, from published research and from our own testing.
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What is superintelligence? A plain-English explainer
Superintelligence is a hypothetical kind of AI that would be far smarter than the best humans in nearly every field, not only in one skill. It doesn't exist today. Experts disagree about whether today's methods could ever get there, how quickly AI will keep improving, and how risky it would be. This page walks through those disagreements without picking a side.
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Will AI take my job? What the research actually says
The short answer: so far, the big studies find that AI is more likely to change the tasks inside many jobs than to wipe out whole jobs, but the effects are uneven, and some workers are already feeling them. Nobody can tell you what will happen to your particular job, and that includes us. What we can do is show you what the research found, in plain English, and give you a few practical things to try this week.