The U.K. government holding an AI Safety Summit.

‘The AI Doc’ documentary on Netflix is horrifying, hopeful, and beautifully human

Like filmmaker Daniel Roher, I walked away an “apocaloptimist,” which feels like the only right response to this moment.

By Annie Reneau

I don’t usually seek out technology documentaries. In fact, I usually blow right past them in search of a good Jane Austen adaptation. But while I was scrolling through Netflix the other night, a visual that read “What is AI?” caught my eye.

Honestly, I’ve been blissfully burying my head in the sand on this topic, happy (for the most part) to live my life and pretend AI is not taking over the world (or threatening my job as a writer, hahahahahaha).

But since ignoring it is becoming more futile, I figured I should at least start trying to understand it better. So I hovered over the “What is AI?” graphic, and to my surprise, watched experts hesitate and struggle to answer that simple question. Hmm. Intrigued, I clicked and spent the next two hours absolutely riveted by Daniel Roher’s The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist.

Olivia Bean searched for her 4th-grade teacher for 22 years.

Young woman looked for her 4th grade teacher for 22 years. Finding her created a beautiful twist.

“If you don’t have a Beth, be a Beth.”

By Cecily Knobler

A young woman named Olivia Bean has been searching for her fourth-grade teacher for 22 years. The problem was that she couldn’t remember her teacher’s name. What she could remember was how much that teacher changed her life, so she became determined to find her.

As a student, Bean had lived in a motel with her mom. She recalled taking multiple city buses each morning to get to school. When her teacher heard, she began driving Bean home every day. Bean shares in a post on Pls.Find’s (@pls.find) Instagram, “Those car rides with my teacher were a few minutes out of the day where I could just be a kid, and not be wondering about all these uncertainties in my life. I was just talking to an adult who cared about me and what my thoughts were.”

Upset child being held by mom.

Child psychologist shares 6-word phrase to say to upset kids that works better than ‘calm down’

There’s a better way to help kids regulate their emotions.

By Emily Shiffer

When kids are upset, parents can easily get flustered and frustrated, too. When looking for a quick way to soothe or settle their kids, one of the most common phrases out of a parent’s mouth is “Calm down.”

Most parents say it from a place of love, assuming their kids will hear them and respond accordingly. But that rarely works.

Instead, a simple six-word phrase may defuse the situation. A pediatric occupational therapist and a child psychologist explain why.

Police called after dad is mistaken for a homeless man.

Someone called the police on a ‘homeless man with a baby.’ Turns out he’s just a very tired dad.

The father of four is using it as a teachable moment.

By Jacalyn Wetzel

When you’re in the throes of parenting a newborn, there’s not much room for glamour. You spend your days exhausted and looking like a haphazardly thrown together preschool art project because your nights are filled with feedings and diaper changes. Being able to take a shower feels like a spa day, especially if you have other small children who need your attention. A California dad of four knows this dance of exhaustion all too well, but he never expected that looking like a tired parent would result in having the police called on him.

That’s right, someone called the police on him for looking as if he rolled out of bed and grabbed the closet clothes he could find. Chapman Hamborg was taking his newborn for a walk in Huntington Beach when one of his neighbors called the police on him reporting that he was a homeless man that had stolen a baby. The dad recorded the unbelievable interaction with the police who thought they had a kidnapping situation on their hands only to find out it was all a misunderstanding.