Human impact
Health, creativity, productivity: what AI concretely changes in people's lives and work.
Health · Creativity · Productivity — 24 articles
AI Doesn't Make You Dumber. It Makes You Dependent.
A Brown professor's students averaged 96% with AI. Stripped of it, they collapsed to 48%. That gap doesn't measure how smart they are. It measures what's left once the tool gets unplugged.
Alexandre Noto · Jul 12, 2026 · 6 min
Human impactAI is great... at first
AI assistants shine in the first sessions, then fall off once a project drags on. Here's why, and what to do about it.
Alexandre Noto · Jul 8, 2026 · 6 min
Human impactAI lifts homework grades, sinks exam scores
A study of 26,811 Chinese students measures what AI does to learning: homework grades climb, exam scores fall.
Alexandre Noto · Jul 4, 2026 · 5 min
Human impactAt 350 words, AI passes for a novelist
A blind test pitted GPT-5 against four award-winning novelists. Readers couldn't tell them apart. Here's what still gives the machine away.
Alexandre Noto · Jul 4, 2026 · 5 min
Human impactMedical AI: What Is a Specialized Model Worth?
A study pits FDA-cleared medical AI against consumer chatbots. The verdict raises an uncomfortable question about what the label actually buys.
Alexandre Noto · Jun 25, 2026 · 5 min
Human impactPublishing Doesn't Fear AI. It Fears Volume.
The real threat AI poses to publishing isn't the quality of what it writes, but the unlimited quantity it produces for next to nothing.
Alexandre Noto · Jun 22, 2026 · 5 min
Human impactAdobe automates the plumbing, not the craft
Adobe is rolling out AI agents in Photoshop and Premiere. A look at what they actually do, and who profits first.
Alexandre Noto · Jun 18, 2026 · 5 min
Human impactThe real price of AI never shows up in the demo
Emissions underestimated by a factor of 500, surprise cloud bills hitting $127,000: the costs AI demos always leave offstage.
Alexandre Noto · May 18, 2026 · 5 min
Human impactOntario AI Scribes: 60% Recorded the Wrong Medication
Ontario's Auditor General tested 20 AI scribes approved by the province. Average accuracy: 12 out of 20. The easiest use case for AI in healthcare just collapsed at scale.
Alexandre Noto · May 17, 2026 · 5 min
Human impact28 days to a perfect body: how AI fake fitness coaches scale
AI-generated fitness coaches flood TikTok and Instagram with impossible promises. The real damage is not the scam, it's what it does to teen mental health.
Alexandre Noto · May 8, 2026 · 5 min
Human impact600,000 Unanswered Questions: How AI Is Filling (and Exploiting) Medical Deserts
On the same day: ChatGPT handles 600,000 medical queries per week from hospital deserts, and a two-person startup made $1.8 billion with fake AI doctors. Not a coincidence — the same void, two very different uses.
Alexandre Noto · Apr 7, 2026 · 4 min
Human impact3 principles to use ChatGPT better than 90% of people
You use ChatGPT every day and the results keep disappointing you. Odds are, the problem isn't the AI. Here are the 3 principles that change everything.
Alexandre Noto · Mar 26, 2026 · 5 min
Human impactAI Produces Fast. Humans Verify Slow. That's the Real Bottleneck.
AI generates content at lightning speed. Checking its work? Still a slow, human process. A 19th-century factory crisis shows us exactly where this leads.
Alexandre Noto · Mar 23, 2026 · 5 min
Human impactCognitive Debt: What the MIT Study Actually Says About Your Brain on ChatGPT
An MIT study shows ChatGPT weakens neural connectivity in its users. But the most important finding? Everyone's missing it: AI amplifies the brains of people who already know how to think.
Alexandre Noto · Mar 22, 2026 · 5 min
Human impactClaude Can Now Draw You an Answer
Anthropic just gave Claude the ability to generate interactive visualizations mid-conversation. What looks like a neat feature is actually a fundamental shift in how AI communicates.
Alexandre Noto · Mar 14, 2026 · 4 min
Human impactAI Productivity: 89% Believe the Hype, Reality Says Otherwise
89% of executives swear AI's boosting their productivity. Actual gains? 16 minutes a week. We dug into why everyone's lying to themselves.
Alexandre Noto · Mar 12, 2026 · 6 min
Human impactAmazon Health AI: Your Grocery Store Wants to Be Your Doctor Now
Amazon just launched Health AI in the US, an AI health assistant that reads medical records and renews prescriptions. But the questions about health data and AI don't respect borders.
Alexandre Noto · Mar 11, 2026 · 5 min
Human impactPerplexity Computer: What if the Future of AI Isn't Picking One Model?
Perplexity just launched Computer, a tool that orchestrates 19 AI models instead of betting on one. Conductor or risky bet?
Alexandre Noto · Feb 27, 2026 · 4 min
Human impactAnthropic wants Claude to replace your enterprise software
Anthropic just launched pre-configured Claude agents for finance, HR, design, and engineering. With role-specific plugins and a dozen integrations, the enterprise AI race just got real.
Alexandre Noto · Feb 25, 2026 · 3 min
Human impactAI Art Goes Institutional: When Museums Validate What Nerds Were Doing in Basements
MoMA's collecting AI art. Christie's sold $728K worth in one auction. LA's opening an entire museum for algorithmic art. AI art isn't a tech curiosity anymore—it's culture.
Katja Liersch · Feb 23, 2026 · 3 min
Human impactAI Is More Creative Than You. Well, Actually...
A 100,000-person study shows AI beats the average human at creativity. But not actual creative people. That distinction matters.
Katja Liersch · Feb 21, 2026 · 3 min
Power & systemsWhy Your AI Bill Is Exploding (And You Have No Idea Why)
AI was supposed to save you money. Three months in, your bill's tripled. Here are the 5 hidden costs nobody warned you about.
Alexandre Noto · Feb 16, 2026 · 5 min
Human impactAI Agents as Digital Teammates: A Simple Framework for Better Work
What if you had a mini-team of AI specialists—research, synthesis, writing, QA—each with a name and a job? Here's how it works, no jargon required, with you still in charge.
Alexandre Noto · Feb 12, 2026 · 3 min
Human impactClaude Can Now Read Your Medical Records. Should You Let It?
Anthropic just launched Claude for Healthcare: AI that can access your Apple Health data, bloodwork, and medical history. Game-changer or privacy nightmare?
Katja Liersch · Feb 5, 2026 · 4 min