Over a decade after co-founding fast.ai, I am returning to AI, specifically focusing on AI in education. My friends are right—there is much that is terrible about AI. Execs make overhyped claims, people outsource thinking, and skills atrophy. Professor friends report students submitting AI-generated essays, while open-source repositories flood with low-quality AI code. Most AI education products are either terrible or scams, like the LAUSD $3 million fraud case.

A decade of AI worries led me to leave the field in 2023, earning an MS in Microbiology-Immunology. Yet as public backlash grew, I decided to return. While away, fast.ai evolved into Answer.AI, where Jeremy Howard and the team continue our mission: making technology accessible while centering human judgment and autonomy.

Their new tool, Solve It, takes its name from George Pólya's 1945 book 'How to Solve It', which divides problem-solving into four stages: understand, plan, execute, and review. Unlike overly helpful chatbots, Solve It keeps humans in control, treating AI as fallible. I joined because I want to use AI in ways that protect human creativity, autonomy, and problem-solving.