Steve Melnick

Just finished reading a 17,000-word parent review of @AlphaSchoolATX, the now-famous “AI school” in the US where students supposedly finish all their academics in just two hours a day. I’ve been following Alpha for a while now (even spoke with their team once) though I haven’t had the chance to visit a campus yet. The school started in Texas, has b... See more

THRILLING piece on whether phones may be the next "Puritan frontier" where we avoid life's messines...which curdles into OCD. I hope Andrew Kay reads my @TheAtlantic piece abt kids LONGING for real-life fun, but are given phones...creating more OCD? https://t.co/eISZFiBEkZ

Great observation: We regulate self-driving cars heavily but have no guardrails on AI and kids because "damage to the mind and soul are no big deal, not like real injuries"

This is crazy and kind of heartbreaking. In a huge survey of young kids about phones and technology, they all say they want to be out playing in the real world. But parents don't let them out unsupervised. So they're stuck on their phones. https://t.co/Pj9k4mS4to

AI like this puts a massive premium on human touch. Whether it's content that can be verified to be filmed live by humans or IRL experiences, that is going to be key. For sales (and fundraising), the humanity will come from warm intros...

if you value intelligence above other human qualities, you're gonna have a hard time