Everyday AI

A plain-English path through the AI tools and terms showing up in everyday apps, news, work, and conversations.

Start here

Start with the big picture, then learn the two terms behind many of today’s AI assistants.

• AI vs. Machine Learning — Understand how the broad idea of artificial intelligence relates to systems that learn from examples.
• What Is a Large Language Model (LLM)? — Meet the technology behind many chatbots and writing assistants.
• What Is an Algorithm? — Learn how step-by-step rules shape recommendations, feeds, and automated decisions.

Understand the pieces

AI rarely works alone. These concepts explain how tools exchange information and what data can travel with the results.

• What Is an API? — See how one program asks another program—or an AI service—to do a job.
• What Is Metadata? — Understand the hidden context attached to files and why it can matter when content is shared.
• What Is the Cloud? — Learn where many AI tools actually run and where the information you send may be processed.

Use AI with your eyes open

AI can create useful material and convincing fakes. Finish with the ideas that help you judge what you see and hear.

• What Is a Deepfake? — Learn how realistic synthetic video and audio are made and what warning signs to look for.
• What Is Social Engineering? — See how convincing messages—including AI-generated ones—can manipulate people into acting quickly.
• The One Thing Every Scam Has in Common — Use urgency as a practical signal to pause before trusting a message, voice, or video.