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The Future of Life Institute just released their AI Safety Index, and it's a sobering look at how these tech leaders are handling AI safety. Anthropic ranks best, but even they get a C. Ouch...
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The Fountain Institute is an independent online school that teaches advanced UX & product skills.
A Workshop Agenda No One Wants By Hannah Baker Dear Reader, Last week, I posted a fake workshop agenda on LinkedIn. The kind we’ve all been in that drains your will to collaborate. I shared it as a joke. It reached 100,000+ people • 800+ likes • 100+ comments • 20+ reposts But the comments weren’t just laughs. They were…grief. People didn’t just say “ha ha, I’ve seen this.” They said: “Oh no. I’ve run this.” The real takeaway? We’re not bad at facilitation, we have to break the status quo. We...
5 Signals That Hint at the Future of AI Interactions by Jeff Humble Dear Reader, The AI landscape is changing fast, and the way we interact with AI is changing even faster. Who knows what the UX of AI will be in 2035? Right now, most of us talk to AI through clunky, chat-based interfaces. But new hardware hints at something more human and ambient. Today, I want to share 5 signals: surprising examples from today that suggest where the future might end up, and a method used by future foresight...
When Your Strategy Slides Hit Silence By Hannah Baker Dear Reader, I’ve shared strategy before, and watched it stall. Not because it was wrong. But because the room didn’t know what to do with it. I wasn’t looking for feedback. I wasn’t asking for approval. I was hoping they’d pick it up and run with it. Instead? Confusion. Silence. They didn’t see what I saw. Not because they didn’t care. But because I’d built the strategy, not the on-ramp they needed to step into it. It’s something I’ve...