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A note before we begin: I'm one of the teachers at our local Balavihar, and I'm presenting this to our parent community in a few weeks. I'm also an AI Evangelist who has spent years building and studying these systems. This piece is my attempt to bring both of those hats to the same room — honest, practical, and without either panic or cheerleading. Generated with the help of ChatGPT. AI tutoring a young girl. I've been talking about AI to engineers, executives, healthcare wo

AI models are constantly becoming more powerful. Every few weeks, major vendors announce model updates touting improvements in capability and performance. And yet, persistent problems remain. Models hallucinate. They can be used maliciously. And they can cause real harm—especially when deployed in autonomous or semi-autonomous workflows. In February 2026, the UK Government’s AI safety effort—supported by a secretariat within the UK AI Security Institute—published the Interna

I have been an adjunct professor in the Computer Science Department at West Virginia University for decades. The subject I usually volunteer to teach is Natural Language Processing , which I offer once every two to three years. And every time I teach it, the course is different. The last time I taught it—two years ago—the course was titled Natural Language Processing with LLMs . Apropos for the times. This year, however, the chair of the CS department convinced me to teach Ap

As someone who has taught programming and AI for decades and worked as an industry researcher for just as long, the latest AI coding...