how wonderful the recording worked out this time. I love listening to it!
These are remarkable developments concerning AI. How I wish the AI cancer detection would have been available a few years ago. This is going to save a lot of lives.
So interesting China prevents AI triggered layoffs now. I agree with @iwetterapoport in her comment, the more people are laid off, the more social stability is threatened. People do what they need to do in order to survive and may get desperate in the situation.
The gardening prompt is such a great idea! I love perennials that you plant once and can harvest for many years. Your prompt suggested delicious berry shrubs for me - which I already planted in the last weeks. Nothing beats walking barefoot in the garden while nibbling berries and other delicious edibles. The good life.
Do you know perennial cale? This is a good one too, because it can last for years and you don't have the problem of needing 50 cale plants to propagate it. It doesn't flower, so it just keeps growing. I had one, but hundreds of tiny slugs ate it last December (!). They must have hatched during one warm day. Will try again soon.
So glad the recording came through this time. I am honored that you read and listen, Mira. 😊 Your words about the cancer detection story moved me more than you know.
Perennial kale is a brilliant addition, thank you for that. The slug hatching sounds like Murphy's Law in action. Nature is both wonderful and completely unhinged. (That's why I love it so much.)
Walking barefoot and nibbling berries sounds like heaven to me, Mira. It's the kind of life we should all aspire to.
Thanks for being here, Mira. 🤗
Hope you enjoy a beautiful, restorative, and relaxing weekend. (With plenty of garden time.)
This is interesting because it may not only be about labour protection.
In a recent podcast interview with Professor Olle Häggström at Chalmers University of Technology, he made the point that China’s AI strategy may in some ways be more cautious than the US approach. Not because the system is liberal, but because the party is highly focused on preventing anything that could threaten stability and control.
That lens makes this ruling feel less surprising. If AI-driven restructuring produces large-scale layoffs, that is not only an economic issue. It becomes a social-stability issue.
So the contrast may not simply be “China protects workers, the US protects markets.” It may be that China sees mass displacement as a governance risk earlier than the US does.
Iwette, thank YOU for reading, commenting, and also sharing.
Readers like you are the only reason I have the privilege and honor of writing. (Seriously. Thank you, Iwette.)
You raise so many good points, and I'm sad to say I agree. The US policy is lagging terribly behind. And honestly, it's worse than lagging. I don't think anyone here has any real clue how to respond to a technology that moves this fast.
As always, so much to digest from MrCompSci. The medical breakthroughs of early detection of pancreatic cancer and AI-assisted ER triage gives me so much hope and shows where we should focus resources towards AI. I wonder how long it will take for this tech to be widely accessible outside elite hospitals. What will it cost patients and public systems? If we treated deployment and access to these tools as the priority rather than spending billions on speculative and often misguided AI capabilities, many lives could be saved. The technology is proving capable. What will we choose to fund and widely deploy?
Thank you so much for reading, writing, and sharing. And for the kind words. They mean a lot. 😎
Who gets these tools first? Elite hospitals in wealthy zip codes, lol.
REDMOD is heading into clinical trials right now, so it's not ready yet. But it's designed to work on any regular CT scan. So hopefully that actually increases accessibility a bit.
I still share your concern completely. It would be a tragedy if AI becomes another premium service priced out of reach for most people.
Hopefully, we'll see an equitable distribution of these resources... over time. 👀
I really enjoy these and look forward to them every week. Regarding the China thing...I get the angst about AI replacing jobs, but I can't believe this is a whole lot different than the Industrial Revolution, when electricity and the internal combustion engine threatened livelihoods, and. more recently, the advent of computing on a personal level. To continue to be employable requires a commitment to skillset change. No matter what anyone thinks of our government and who's running it, thank goodness we don't live in an authoritarian society.
Thank you so much for your kind words. They made my day!
Also, thanks for reading, sharing, and commenting.
I also agree with you. Banning AI firings, or AI itself, feels deeply unnatural. It would be like banning the automobile because it replaced horses, lol. Seriously. It's kind of exactly like that.
I'm not sure humans could stop inventing even if we wanted to.
So yes, there will be job disruptions. Thousands of people are already losing their jobs. Just this past week, Coinbase announced it's cutting 14% of staff and pivoting harder into AI. Cloudflare announced another 1,100 cuts, also attributed to AI. That was just in the last few days.
But you can't suppress the technology in response. Otherwise, we wouldn't get the good stuff that comes with it. Like AI detecting pancreatic cancer up to three years faster than doctors can. More good will come. Eventually, maybe even tremendous good.
I have no idea what the AI jobs solution looks like, honestly. A better safety net, better retraining, more awareness. It's good to have these conversations, at minimum.
Miiike, a rollercoaster ride as always. AI spotting cancer years early, outperforming doctors in triage, getting tangled up in billionaire courtroom drama, and still being used as a reason to cut thousands of jobs anyway. I honestly can't keep up. The fact that the same technology can genuinely improve people’s lives, while also enabling efficiency, displacement, and power consolidation, depending on who’s holding it, has me in a bit of a tailspin. ‘Your safety net is from 1935’ is definitely going to live in my head for a while. Thanks for the updates! And as always, we love a garden prompt :) The family chat says 'ahh we've been waiting for this!'. I think my parents are hoping to grow Pomegranates and Lemons, which should work in their climate. Until next time my friend :)
The AI pancreatic cancer story has to be the coolest AI story I've heard so far this year. I spend so much time reading about the negative side effects of AI (lol), that it felt good to cover a really positive story for once.
Also, I'm totally addicted to gardening + outdoor prompts now, and they're the only ones I wanna create.
Lemons and pomegranates sound like an elite combination. I feel like pomegranates are probably one of the most underrated fruits, Jade. They're delicious. Lots of people eat them with a spoon or knife. I literally peel them then devour them like an apple. (Yes. I am a total madman. I can't help it. The ruby jewels are so good.)
Fantastic summary! That Elon is a piece of work. Even though I didn’t get a seat at the money table, I’m endlessly fascinated/entertained by AI—and now it might save me!
I don't think your husband is going anywhere. But I bet he will see more and more of this technology showing up in his work. Some of it will genuinely do a lot of good. The pancreatic cancer detection story is the kind of thing that makes it easy to root for AI even when everything else about it is exhausting.
Still, I completely understand why doctors and medical staff may feel a little sketched out right now. That's a reasonable reaction.
Hope you and yours have a beautiful weekend, Brittney.
What struck me most is the contradiction running through the entire piece.
The same systems that may soon detect cancer earlier than any physician are also beginning to reorganize labor, authority, and interpretation faster than societies can metabolize them.
Capability is accelerating faster than institutional wisdom.
That gap may become one of the defining psychological and political problems of this decade.
"Capability accelerating faster than wisdom" is the perfect diagnosis, Ryan. The systems built to govern, protect, and interpret are running decades behind this technology that changes daily.
You did the recording! Great to hear your voice, Mike.
Look at China leading the way in actually protecting workers and livelihoods! I saw a news feature last night about a rise in older building apprentices in NZ with a huge group over 40 - many are IT guys reinventing themselves because they see the writing on the wall. I keep wondering what my "other" skill should be that AI can't touch but professional beach walker and picnic taker doesn't seem to pay yet... 😉😄
Thank you so much for your kind words regarding the voice narration! I enjoy recording them now. But, I also confess that it's kinda stressful. (I record literally minutes before I send the newsletter at 6 AM. So, there is terrible time pressure, lol. I will still try again next week for sure.)
Also, I've been spying on your Substack feed and laughing with delight at all of the "adventurer" artwork now appearing, lol.
You have started an elite underground cult of AI Swashbucklers, who are hungry for adventure.
Count me in.
;)
PS:
I'm not surprised a lot of IT folks are starting to panic into building construction or apprenticeship. They're guessing that the most profitable skill over the next decade might be knowing which end of the hammer to hold. 🔨
It’s been totally unexpected! It’s so fun right?! I’ve decided to have fun with it and take things a tiny bit further, so make sure you read my post on Tuesday 😄
Recording your audio at unearthly hours of the morning is no small feat! Great work!
Thank you so much for visiting, writing, and sharing. 🤓
The pancreatic cancer breakthrough is honestly the best AI news I have heard all year. It is the kind of story that makes me remember why any of this matters.
And your distillation joke is so funny, lol. "Partly." 😉
Loving the recorded version, I know that takes time and dedication. Enjoying hearing your voice! The REDMOD piece is wild, the idea that routine scans already sitting in hospital archives could be retroactively reanalyzed to catch cancers that were invisible to the human eye is a game changer. Always learn so much by reading your articles.
Hi Mike :)
how wonderful the recording worked out this time. I love listening to it!
These are remarkable developments concerning AI. How I wish the AI cancer detection would have been available a few years ago. This is going to save a lot of lives.
So interesting China prevents AI triggered layoffs now. I agree with @iwetterapoport in her comment, the more people are laid off, the more social stability is threatened. People do what they need to do in order to survive and may get desperate in the situation.
The gardening prompt is such a great idea! I love perennials that you plant once and can harvest for many years. Your prompt suggested delicious berry shrubs for me - which I already planted in the last weeks. Nothing beats walking barefoot in the garden while nibbling berries and other delicious edibles. The good life.
Do you know perennial cale? This is a good one too, because it can last for years and you don't have the problem of needing 50 cale plants to propagate it. It doesn't flower, so it just keeps growing. I had one, but hundreds of tiny slugs ate it last December (!). They must have hatched during one warm day. Will try again soon.
Have a lovely day, Mike! 🦋🐦🐝
Warmly,
Mira
Hi Mira. 🦋
So glad the recording came through this time. I am honored that you read and listen, Mira. 😊 Your words about the cancer detection story moved me more than you know.
Perennial kale is a brilliant addition, thank you for that. The slug hatching sounds like Murphy's Law in action. Nature is both wonderful and completely unhinged. (That's why I love it so much.)
Walking barefoot and nibbling berries sounds like heaven to me, Mira. It's the kind of life we should all aspire to.
Thanks for being here, Mira. 🤗
Hope you enjoy a beautiful, restorative, and relaxing weekend. (With plenty of garden time.)
The bluebirds say hello. 🌲🐦
Cordially,
Your nerdy gardening friend,
Mike D
As always, thank you, Mike.
This is interesting because it may not only be about labour protection.
In a recent podcast interview with Professor Olle Häggström at Chalmers University of Technology, he made the point that China’s AI strategy may in some ways be more cautious than the US approach. Not because the system is liberal, but because the party is highly focused on preventing anything that could threaten stability and control.
That lens makes this ruling feel less surprising. If AI-driven restructuring produces large-scale layoffs, that is not only an economic issue. It becomes a social-stability issue.
So the contrast may not simply be “China protects workers, the US protects markets.” It may be that China sees mass displacement as a governance risk earlier than the US does.
Hello Iwette! 😎
Iwette, thank YOU for reading, commenting, and also sharing.
Readers like you are the only reason I have the privilege and honor of writing. (Seriously. Thank you, Iwette.)
You raise so many good points, and I'm sad to say I agree. The US policy is lagging terribly behind. And honestly, it's worse than lagging. I don't think anyone here has any real clue how to respond to a technology that moves this fast.
Hope you have a lovely weekend, Iwette! 🌞
Cordially,
Mike D
As always, so much to digest from MrCompSci. The medical breakthroughs of early detection of pancreatic cancer and AI-assisted ER triage gives me so much hope and shows where we should focus resources towards AI. I wonder how long it will take for this tech to be widely accessible outside elite hospitals. What will it cost patients and public systems? If we treated deployment and access to these tools as the priority rather than spending billions on speculative and often misguided AI capabilities, many lives could be saved. The technology is proving capable. What will we choose to fund and widely deploy?
Hello Celeste!
Thank you so much for reading, writing, and sharing. And for the kind words. They mean a lot. 😎
Who gets these tools first? Elite hospitals in wealthy zip codes, lol.
REDMOD is heading into clinical trials right now, so it's not ready yet. But it's designed to work on any regular CT scan. So hopefully that actually increases accessibility a bit.
I still share your concern completely. It would be a tragedy if AI becomes another premium service priced out of reach for most people.
Hopefully, we'll see an equitable distribution of these resources... over time. 👀
Wishing you a lovely week, Celeste.
Cordially,
Your nerdy friend,
Mike D
I really enjoy these and look forward to them every week. Regarding the China thing...I get the angst about AI replacing jobs, but I can't believe this is a whole lot different than the Industrial Revolution, when electricity and the internal combustion engine threatened livelihoods, and. more recently, the advent of computing on a personal level. To continue to be employable requires a commitment to skillset change. No matter what anyone thinks of our government and who's running it, thank goodness we don't live in an authoritarian society.
Hey Joe!
Thank you so much for your kind words. They made my day!
Also, thanks for reading, sharing, and commenting.
I also agree with you. Banning AI firings, or AI itself, feels deeply unnatural. It would be like banning the automobile because it replaced horses, lol. Seriously. It's kind of exactly like that.
I'm not sure humans could stop inventing even if we wanted to.
So yes, there will be job disruptions. Thousands of people are already losing their jobs. Just this past week, Coinbase announced it's cutting 14% of staff and pivoting harder into AI. Cloudflare announced another 1,100 cuts, also attributed to AI. That was just in the last few days.
But you can't suppress the technology in response. Otherwise, we wouldn't get the good stuff that comes with it. Like AI detecting pancreatic cancer up to three years faster than doctors can. More good will come. Eventually, maybe even tremendous good.
I have no idea what the AI jobs solution looks like, honestly. A better safety net, better retraining, more awareness. It's good to have these conversations, at minimum.
Cordially,
Mike D
Such a great newsletter, thank you!
Wow. 😊
Thank you so much!
It’s an absolute pleasure.
(Thank you so much for reading, commenting, and joining this nerdy gang, lol.)
Hope you have a lovely day.
Cordially,
Mike D
I was decluttering my saved newsletters section and reading a bunch of things, and yours was the best thing I read 😊
Enjoy your weekend!
Wowwwwwwwww.
Lol.
I am smiling and laughing now.
(Seriously. Thanks for making my day. I work hard on the newsletter, and am honored that you enjoy reading.)
Hope you enjoy a beautiful weekend as well.
Cordially,
Mike D
Miiike, a rollercoaster ride as always. AI spotting cancer years early, outperforming doctors in triage, getting tangled up in billionaire courtroom drama, and still being used as a reason to cut thousands of jobs anyway. I honestly can't keep up. The fact that the same technology can genuinely improve people’s lives, while also enabling efficiency, displacement, and power consolidation, depending on who’s holding it, has me in a bit of a tailspin. ‘Your safety net is from 1935’ is definitely going to live in my head for a while. Thanks for the updates! And as always, we love a garden prompt :) The family chat says 'ahh we've been waiting for this!'. I think my parents are hoping to grow Pomegranates and Lemons, which should work in their climate. Until next time my friend :)
Hi Jade!
Thank you so much for visiting and writing!
:)
The AI pancreatic cancer story has to be the coolest AI story I've heard so far this year. I spend so much time reading about the negative side effects of AI (lol), that it felt good to cover a really positive story for once.
Also, I'm totally addicted to gardening + outdoor prompts now, and they're the only ones I wanna create.
Lemons and pomegranates sound like an elite combination. I feel like pomegranates are probably one of the most underrated fruits, Jade. They're delicious. Lots of people eat them with a spoon or knife. I literally peel them then devour them like an apple. (Yes. I am a total madman. I can't help it. The ruby jewels are so good.)
Cordially,
Mike D
Fantastic summary! That Elon is a piece of work. Even though I didn’t get a seat at the money table, I’m endlessly fascinated/entertained by AI—and now it might save me!
Dear Debra,
Thank you so much for writing, commenting, and sharing. And I saw that you followed me on Medium too. That genuinely means a lot. 😊
I'm with you completely. I never got a seat at the table either, lol. But yes, AI is 100% enthralling and I truly cannot look away. 👀
And hey, if it ends up saving us too, that's a pretty good consolation prize.
Hope you have a lovely weekend, Debra.
Cordially,
Your nerdy friend,
Mike D
The Elon Musk and Sam Altman court proceedings will surely come to Netflix soon!
Another great episode Mike, thank you! Glad the narration worked this week. 😃
Hello Eddie!
Thank you so much for writing. 🌞😎
Yes. I was honestly kind of scared that I would totally freak out and be unable to record it, lol. But, it worked!
(With luck, I will return next week. Triumphantly, lol.)
Hope to see you then, Eddie.
Cordially,
Your nerdy friend,
Mike D
Great to hear you, partner! Works perfect while at the gym. 🎧💪
Dear Bert,
Thank you so much for visiting here!
Also, I'm honored that you listened to the narration.
You motivated me to try again for my next article too.
🙂
Thank you, Bert.
Hope you have a lovely weekend.
Cordially,
Your nerdy friend,
Mike D
Le, sigh. I thought my husband was overreacting about AI coming for his job. He’s an emergency room provider. Guess not!
The China/US contrast here is depressing. Proud to be an Americaaaaannn!
Hello Brittney! 🌻🐦⬛
Thank you so much for writing!
We live in such wild times.
I don't think your husband is going anywhere. But I bet he will see more and more of this technology showing up in his work. Some of it will genuinely do a lot of good. The pancreatic cancer detection story is the kind of thing that makes it easy to root for AI even when everything else about it is exhausting.
Still, I completely understand why doctors and medical staff may feel a little sketched out right now. That's a reasonable reaction.
Hope you and yours have a beautiful weekend, Brittney.
Cordially,
Your nerdy friend,
Mike D
Another awesome post Mike!
Healthcare is one of the top 3 areas i'm really excited to watch with AI. There is so much going on I had missed this story, thanks for surfacing it.
Dear ToxSec,
I'm seriously honored that you read my stuff.
THANK YOU.
Also, I'm curious about the other two areas you are most excited to watch with AI?
Hope you enjoy a spectacular weekend.
Cordially,
Your nerdy friend,
Mike D
What struck me most is the contradiction running through the entire piece.
The same systems that may soon detect cancer earlier than any physician are also beginning to reorganize labor, authority, and interpretation faster than societies can metabolize them.
Capability is accelerating faster than institutional wisdom.
That gap may become one of the defining psychological and political problems of this decade.
Professor! 🤓
Thank you so much for visiting here.
Very good to see you.
"Capability accelerating faster than wisdom" is the perfect diagnosis, Ryan. The systems built to govern, protect, and interpret are running decades behind this technology that changes daily.
Hope you enjoy a beautiful weekend.
Cordially,
Your nerdy friend,
Mike D
You did the recording! Great to hear your voice, Mike.
Look at China leading the way in actually protecting workers and livelihoods! I saw a news feature last night about a rise in older building apprentices in NZ with a huge group over 40 - many are IT guys reinventing themselves because they see the writing on the wall. I keep wondering what my "other" skill should be that AI can't touch but professional beach walker and picnic taker doesn't seem to pay yet... 😉😄
Hello Dallas!
Thank you so much for your kind words regarding the voice narration! I enjoy recording them now. But, I also confess that it's kinda stressful. (I record literally minutes before I send the newsletter at 6 AM. So, there is terrible time pressure, lol. I will still try again next week for sure.)
Also, I've been spying on your Substack feed and laughing with delight at all of the "adventurer" artwork now appearing, lol.
You have started an elite underground cult of AI Swashbucklers, who are hungry for adventure.
Count me in.
;)
PS:
I'm not surprised a lot of IT folks are starting to panic into building construction or apprenticeship. They're guessing that the most profitable skill over the next decade might be knowing which end of the hammer to hold. 🔨
Hope you have a lovely day, Dallas!!!
Talk soon,
Your nerdy garden friend,
Mike D
It’s been totally unexpected! It’s so fun right?! I’ve decided to have fun with it and take things a tiny bit further, so make sure you read my post on Tuesday 😄
Recording your audio at unearthly hours of the morning is no small feat! Great work!
Honestly, that news about pancreatic cancer just made my day lighter. Even if all the jobs are going away. Even if the money made is going to Altman.
I gotta make time to read this more regularly -- thanks for distilling this so well (and not like a Chinese lab with a frontier model!)
Dear Jessie,
Thank you so much for visiting, writing, and sharing. 🤓
The pancreatic cancer breakthrough is honestly the best AI news I have heard all year. It is the kind of story that makes me remember why any of this matters.
And your distillation joke is so funny, lol. "Partly." 😉
Thank you for that.
Hope you enjoy a lovely weekend, Jessie.
Cordially,
Your nerdy friend,
Mike D
Hi Mike!
Loving the recorded version, I know that takes time and dedication. Enjoying hearing your voice! The REDMOD piece is wild, the idea that routine scans already sitting in hospital archives could be retroactively reanalyzed to catch cancers that were invisible to the human eye is a game changer. Always learn so much by reading your articles.
Thanks for sharing and have a great week!
Your Friend,
Kai