aiGED
The first—and only—podcast made for the 65-plus crowd that is all about ai.
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55 episodes
10 Things I Did With Claude AI This Week: Carrots, Medicare & the US Open
Ginny Deerin brings back her most-requested format — real, concrete things she has actually done with Claude AI, no theory and no hype. She ticks through ten of them from the past couple of weeks: getting a refund from Audible, researching a Ki...
AI for Crafters: 9 Handmade Hobbies It Actually Helps
This week Ginny Deerin opens with a heartfelt goodbye to Dolly Parton — and shares two of Dolly’s own thoughts on AI — before diving into today’s main topic: can a little dose of AI really help with something as gloriously handmade as a hand cr...
How AI Is Changing the Weather Forecast
This week Ginny Deerin does something she rarely does — she brings on a guest. She sat down (at the pickleball court, naturally) with Rob Fowler, one of the Lowcountry's best-known meteorologists, to talk about how AI is quietly reshaping the w...
AI Lingo, Round Two: 20 Words to Keep You in the Conversation
It’s a milestone week on aiGED — our 50th episode. Ginny Deerin thanks the 65+ crowd who’ve grown this show by recommending it to others, and then dives into a sequel listeners asked for. A while back she ran through a batch of AI lingo so no o...
16 Ways Your Camera Makes AI Even More Useful
The AI you already use just got far more useful, thanks to something that's been in your pocket all along: your phone's camera. This week on aiGED, Ginny Deerin shows the 65+ crowd — and anyone just getting started — how pointing your camera at...
How to Use AI Projects — and Why You Should
There's a feature tucked inside today's AI tools that most people have never opened — and it may be the one that finally makes AI feel genuinely useful. This week on aiGED, Ginny Deerin explains "Projects" (Claude and ChatGPT call them Projects...
Your AI Questions Answered: ChatGPT, Gemini & Claude
You’ve got questions about AI — and you are definitely not alone. This week on aiGED, Ginny Deerin opens the very first aiGED Mailbag, answering the real questions listeners have sent in about living with AI, all in plain, friendly English for ...
ChatGPT vs Claude vs Gemini: A 2026 Comparison for Real Life
This week on aiGED, two stories collide in a way I didn't expect. Apple just sued OpenAI, accusing it of stealing trade secrets — the ugly end to a partnership that once seemed so promising. And in the same week, OpenAI rolled out a voice assis...
AI Rules Keep Changing — Is America Losing the Lead?
What happens when a major AI model gets shut down worldwide with ninety minutes' notice? This week on aiGED, we go a little deeper than usual — a two-part look at whether America is actually positioned to keep its lead in AI, starting with the ...
12 Things I Did With Claude AI This Week: Printers, Skin Spots, Embroidery
Back by popular demand — the episode format listeners keep asking for. Episode 30, "14 Things I Did With AI This Week," was our most popular episode ever. Today we're doing it again with Episode 44: 12 real, concrete things Ginny ha...
AI Agents Explained: What They Do and How to Start
What if your AI didn't just answer your questions — but actually made things? This week on aiGED, we go behind the scenes of how Ginny produces this podcast every Tuesday morning, using it as a window into one of the biggest shifts happening in...
13 AI Words Explained: From Slop to Enshittification
If you’ve been hearing words like “enshittification,” “slop,” or “vibe coding” and smiling politely like you know exactly what they mean — this episode is for you. Ginny Deerin brings a baker’s dozen of AI words and phrases worth knowing: thirt...
Apple Finally Fixed Siri: What to Try Right Now
If you have an iPhone, this one is for you. Apple just held its big annual event — WWDC 2026 — and for the first time in a long time, Siri actually delivered. Not a small update. A real overhaul. The kind that might actually change how you use ...
AI in Medicine: The Breakthroughs Hiding in Plain Sight
You've heard it plenty of times — AI is going to transform medicine, cure cancer, change everything. And then you open the health section of your favorite newspaper and... nothing. No AI. Just doctors, researchers, and breakthroughs. So which i...
AI Is Reshaping Work for Everyone - From Wall Street to the Electrician Next Door
AI and jobs. It’s the conversation nobody wanted to have — and now everybody is having. In this episode of aiGED, host Ginny Deerin digs into what’s really happening to the job market: the layoffs, the industries being transformed, and the jobs...
Dear Kevin Frazier: Come On My Podcast
Recording from a little apartment in Pienza, Italy, host Ginny Deerin reads an open letter — out loud, on air — to Kevin Frazier, the law professor who wrote “Your grandma should be using AI” for Fortune magazine. She agrees with a lot of i...
Italy Travel Tips: How I Used AI When the WiFi Failed
I'm reporting live from Pienza — a tiny, gorgeous, medieval town in Tuscany where the wine is excellent and the internet is, as my mother would say, S-H-I-TTY. Real-time voice conversations with Claude? Absolutely not happening. But my AI has s...
How to Use AI for Work, Travel, and Daily Life
My friend, Bill, isn’t a tech expert — he’s a consultant, pickleball player, and self-described regular guy who started using AI and never looked back. He calls his ChatGPT assistant “John,” and the two of them have something he only half-j...
Using AI to Plan My Italy Trip: 11 Things I Asked Claude
I’m heading to Italy (Rome, Pienza and Florence) at the end of April for a month with my three siblings — and Claude has been my behind-the-scenes planning partner. This week I’m sharing 11 real things I asked my AI to help me with: from TSA ru...
What AI Is Going to Do to Education — From Elementary School to College, What Could Actually Happen
If you have grandkids, great-grandkids, or kids down the street, this episode is for you. Ginny has been doing a lot of reading on what AI might actually do to our schools — not in a vague, hand-wavy way, but in a real, picture-by-picture w...
The Most Powerful AI Ever Built, Cybersecurity Risks, and What It Means for You
On April 7th, Anthropic announced Claude Mythos — described as “by far the most powerful AI model we’ve ever developed.” But instead of releasing it to the public, they locked it away. In this episode, Ginny explains what Mythos can do, why it ...
When to Move to a Senior Living Community — How I Used Claude AI to Decide and Plan
Thinking about a move to a senior living community — or just wondering if you should? In this episode, Ginny Deerin shares one of her most personal AI projects yet: using AI to research, decide, and plan her move to The Peninsula, a new s...
14 Things I Did With Claude This Week
No big topic this week — just 14 real things I did with AI in my everyday life. Reviewing blood test results with my doctor appointment coming up. Finding the right boots for Italian cobblestones. Saving $100 on TurboTax. Getting my AirPods ret...
Easter Party Ideas — How AI Helps You Plan the Perfect Celebration
This week on aiGED, Ginny gets into the Easter spirit — with a little help from Joe, her new AI sidekick. Yes, Joe. He's British. And he's auditioning to fill the very large shoes left by Bitsy.But first — an update on the ChatGPT ...