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LATEST POST:It all Starts with Why: Designing Safe AI for Children and Considering the Risks![]() Senior AI Research Scientist I recently had a conversation with a five-year-old about Roy G Biv; not some guy named Roy, but the acronym for the colors of the visible spectrum (Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, and Violet). This discussion grew from the classic child’s question, “Why is the sky blue”? The Roy G Biv conversation led to additional discussions about atmospheric backscattering, electromagnetic absorption versus reflection, and so forth. All these conversational threads shared a common origin and ending, “but why?” Eventually, cognitive fatigue got the best of me, and I relented by explaining that this is how the universe was created and that a higher authority should be consulted. This conversation stayed with me and caused me to speculate about the advantages that an AI-powered personal learning assistant might have or even accelerate a child’s education. Such an assistant would never...
PREVIOUS POSTS:My Friend's Fake Book Mystery![]() Founder & CEO This is a true crime story. Names have been removed to protect the innocent.
One of my friends is an established author in the learning industry. Recently, she released her second book to great acclaim. One day, she checked her author page and to her shock and horror, an unauthorized book had appeared. "Sell Buy Create Relation Hip" was not written by her. Despite many complaints to Amazon, it was not taken down until very recently. However, this was not before three additional "fake" books showed up. Here's a snippet from one of them, "Learn to Use Time:" "My first job is to learn how to make the most of the time when the work is not yet full in order to enhance and broaden my knowledge as I will soon start working for a growing company. For instance, you should Perks to Performance: An Analysis of NFL Team Report Cards![]() Research Psychologist II NFL organization report cards were released a couple months ago! For the past two years, the NFL Players Association (NFLPA) has surveyed active NFL players to assess various aspects of each NFL team’s organization. The purpose of this is to illuminate what the daily experience is like for players and their families on each team, to serve as a sort of “Free Agency Guide” for all players around the league (Tretter, 2024). In other words, players want to see what it’s like working for different organizations to help them decide where to work (and where to avoid). Luckily, these report cards are published for the public to see, and there were some interesting results.
Please Ask Me What The View Is Like From Over Here![]() Senior Research Psychologist How many times have we been told to “put ourselves in someone else’s shoes” or “see things from the other person’s point of view?” According to the best-seller by Dale Carnegie, perspective taking is one of the principles for How to Win Friends and Influence People. It is not just negotiators or salespeople who have to practice this. We all try to do this when trying to understand our customers, staff, co-workers, bosses, friends, family, people we like, and people we don’t. Perspective taking happens when we imagine ourselves in the other person’s shoes. The thing is, our ability to take the other’s perspective relies on our imagination of what this other person is like and what we think we know about them, but this may not be accurate at all.
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