AI, in real lives
Short, real stories about people actually using AI for everyday life — summarized in our own voice from journalism we trust. No corporate case studies, no speculative futurism, no doom coverage. Just specifics.
When her 98-year-old mother's insurance denied coverage for dementia care, Marie used ChatGPT to coach her through the appeal — asking it questions until she had the right language to push back. The AI didn't win the appeal for her. It helped her find the words.
Lisa had spent years slogging through a messy PDF congressional directory for work. She finally gave it to ChatGPT — telling it specifically what columns and structure she wanted. The output: a clean, searchable spreadsheet she actually uses every week.
Christian had no coding experience. He asked ChatGPT to help him build a searchable farmers-market tracker for his tamale company's website — and by the same afternoon, it was live, saving customers from hunting through a static list.
For her seventh-grade unit on the Salem witch trials, Kim used ChatGPT to write a reading-level-appropriate article for class — then ten different versions of the multiple-choice quiz, so students at adjacent desks couldn't easily compare answers.