Figuring Out AI with Steve

We didn't ask for AI to show up everywhere. No training, no roadmap — suddenly we were all just expected to figure it out.

Figuring Out AI with Steve helps curious non-technical adults make sense of AI without hype, panic, or tech jargon. AI can do genuinely useful things. It can also create real problems. The goal is helping you tell the difference.

My operating frame: treat AI like a junior intern. Fast, useful, genuinely capable — but you're still the project manager. You verify the work. You make the final decision.

Before this, I spent 15 years in federal service leading large-scale learning and development at the U.S. Department of State. My whole career has been about taking complicated things and making them understandable for the people who actually need to use them. AI is just the next complicated thing.

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