Additional Ai Series Resources
August 27, 2026
From Diana Knobel:
Hello all!
Please dont feel pressure to watch these before Friday. I will have more to share that you can watch at your convenience.
If you're lacking time, please watch the last video on this list that is fairly short and speaks to Fri on how to best use AI.
1. Uval Harari
This video is an hour long, a great overview of primary discussion concerns with friends and family, fresh off the presses of an interview by the Economist with Uval who wrote Sapians and many other outstanding books on the history of humanity.
Much food for thought in this one, when you get a chance, be sure to watch. Write down your questions!
2. Julia McCoy
First Movers - a million $ company that used a clone to represent her while she was seriously ill. Julia attributes her healing journey due to the time she was given back by offloading the work to her clone.
3. This 10 mn video came out 2 Mos ago and is very interesting claiming AI accepts God created the universe. (This is Julia's clone narrating this video):
4. This is the real Julia promoting her AI philosophy in 10 mn. I want us to debate is she extractive or relational?
Julia is also offering a free class starting noon on Fri 8/28 seen on her youtube channel. Which one, im not sure yet and will share once I know more. She'll be explaining more how to utilize AI live. I am not going to miss what she has to say as ive been following her story a year before she got really ill.
5. 2025 Cognitive Study on relying on LLM'S (3 mn video)
6. Here is a short video that definitely represents the underbelly of the extractive use of Agentic AI.
**** 7. WATCH THIS ONE
A short 3 mn overview on the levels of using AI looking at Claude, (all the frontier models are competing for this market share with pros and cons of each).
On Friday we will examine these different levels and have a better idea of what level you will decide to interact with AI. Knowing this info will prepare you for our last class on the security and safety of AI.
BONUS POINTS:
Which one of these last 2 videos was a clone delivering the content?
Two layers to discern any video;
Content verification - how do you trust the
information?
Delivery verification - how do you trust that what this person is saying is actually what they believe if it's their clone?
Julia McCoy has much experience on this dilemma and why she's on my list of oneself to watch.
I also have a surprise guest! My mother is coming to share her 84 yr old wisdom and testimony on how Chat GTP helped her navigate her husband's Kidney failure and passing. She'll share why she wants to write a book on her experiences using these AI tools for her level of comfort.
Enjoy! Write down your questions!
Thank you so much for your interest and attention!!
See ya soon! +D
Diana Knobel (she/her/kin)
Heartwise; Human Alignment for the Age of AI
"One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself."~ Leonardo DaVinci
"Having hope and trying to do something, even in the face of disappointing odds and tremendous problems, is not naive optimism. It is our best choice. It is our only choice."
~ Andrew Light, (environmental philosopher at New York University)
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