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Technical.ly
02-07-2025
- Business
- Technical.ly
How to use AI and still stay true to your values
This is a guest post by Nancy Li, founder of coaching firm Paññā Panya. As AI development and usage continue to grow, people are encountering a fundamental question: What is my relationship with these AI tools as a human being? A global survey by Boston Consulting Group indicated that 43% of people are excited about AI's impact on lifestyle and workplace-based issues, while 28% are conflicted and 29% are concerned. AI is a powerful tool that uses lots of resources (electricity, data centers, water and more), which then affects how many resources get allocated to it, where the resources come from, and who gets to make these decisions. Humanness includes the limitations, strengths and compassion that people use to navigate through the complexities of life as an individual and as a group. We need humanness in our AI usage because the decisions we make as individuals have an impact on others. If you want to use AI with your humanness engaged, here are three principles to help on this journey. Define the functionality For what ends are you using AI? Most people focus on this benefit: convenience. This reason creates a blanket statement to always use AI, for who doesn't like convenience? So let's take another approach and work backwards: What is the outcome you want from using AI? AI usage tends to fall into these non-mutually exclusive categories: Organize complex ideas or processes in a usable and user-friendly way. Examples include creating a process for personalized healthy eating habits or summarizing research on the history and usage of AI in brand marketing. Create new content or an image based on something that already exists. Maybe it's creating a picture of a cat surfing a rainbow cloud or writing the story of Cinderella in the voice of Homer Simpson. It's about taking a reference point and shifting the perspective or tone on it. Edit something that was previously written or created to make sure it flows for grammar, punctuation, content and similar standards. Examples would be asking a program to proofread or rewrite the article you wrote for a school project. Get really clear on what you can trust AI to do. Currently, the AI hallucination rate, or the frequency with which it generates false information, can be as high as 40%. You may not want to rely on AI only to organize something that is highly technical or trust it to create your schedule for next week. Know exactly what you are saying yes to when you use AI. Establish boundaries Decide under what circumstances you will not use AI. As humans, we all have people, ideas and things we value. This informs what we are willing or not willing to do, which creates boundaries. Humans can also have boundaries with AI. For example, I've been a childhood fan of Hayao Miyazaki, the creator of beloved Japanese animated films such as Spirited Away. Knowing his perspectives on AI, I would never input his work into an AI platform because I respect his work deeply. Another person I know is a writer who wants to honor the time and care it took to develop their creative work. Privacy, in terms of attribution back to the original writer, is important to them. So they decide to prioritize and even pay for (if needed) services that will not store their work and give it to other users without their knowledge. Knowing what you highly value and are willing to hold onto is part of your integrity and empathy as a human. These qualities create boundaries, which then determine what you say no to. Ask better questions and make better requests After you have your personal values for AI usage based on the first two principles, let's get tactical. In order to have useful and doable AI outputs, you need to have relevant and specific inputs. Here is a framework to help you assess your inputs: Be specific about your situation. Put on your journalist hat and provide the Five Ws: who, what, when, where and why of the circumstance. This provides enough context for AI to return outputs that are specific to you instead of just anyone else. Name the output you want. Specify if you want high-level strategies, detailed tactics, brainstorming, summary or anything in between. If you don't state what you want initially, then you will likely input 10 more prompts to get to where you want to go. Honor your limitations. Specify what you do not want. It can be a process, types of input, time period or perspective. Ask follow-up questions. If something seems confusing, unclear or undoable for you, then ask AI to clarify, define or break it down to smaller steps. Sometimes, certain words or ideas are used, but they may or may not be used in the same way you are using them. Double-check to make sure you are on the same page. When we choose to use a tool and it has an increasing impact on the world, then we need to get really clear on when and how we use it. With these 3 principles, you get to decide why you want to use AI, under what circumstances you will not use AI and how to get AI outputs that are specific and relevant to your life. AI is a tool. We get to bring our humanness to any tool by determining our relationship with the usage and the impact it has on the world and other people.
Daily Telegraph
29-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Telegraph
‘The Simpsons' producer breaks silence on Marge Simpson's shocking death after fan backlash
Don't miss out on the headlines from TV. Followed categories will be added to My News. 'The Simpsons' executive producer Matt Selman has spoken out about the surprising decision to 'kill off' Marge Simpson during a flashforward scene in the show's Season 36 finale. Although the move caused major controversy within the hit cartoon's loyal fanbase, Selman slammed the backlash and claimed that it was 'ridiculous', The NY Post reports. 'Obviously, since 'The Simpsons' future episodes are all speculative fantasies, they're all different every time,' he told Variety during an interview published on Thursday, June 26. 'Marge will probably never be dead ever again. The only place Marge is dead is in one future episode that aired six weeks ago,' Selman, 53, added. ''The Simpsons' doesn't even have canon!' The episode in question, titled 'Estranger Things' and which aired on May 18, focuses on siblings Bart and Lisa Simpson as they slowly grow apart after they stop watching 'The Itchy & Scratchy Show' together. Lisa and Bart found a letter from their mother, who it's confirmed has passed. After a 35-year time jump, the audience learns that Marge has died, Bart and Lisa are estranged, and Homer Simpson, the family's dad, is living in a retirement home. A short scene from Marge's funeral shows Homer in tears while the rest of the Simpsons family stands around him. At the end of the Season 36 finale, Marge watches from Heaven as Bart and Lisa save their dad from the retirement home and reconnect over a reboot of 'The Itchy & Scratchy Show.' 'I'm so happy my kids are close again,' the Simpsons family matriarch says. From left: Homer Simpson, Bart Simpson, Marge Simpson and Lisa Simpson. Picture: ©20thCentFox/Courtesy Everett Collection Marge is seen with Ringo Starr up in the clouds. It is then revealed that Marge met and married Beatles superstar Ringo Starr while in Heaven. But viewers were not happy to learn that the show's creators 'killed off' Marge Simpson, and many took to social media to express their shock and outrage. 'I haven't even watched The Simpsons in 10+ years but they really killed MARGE?!' one person wrote on X after the episode aired. 'What's this I'm hearing they killed Marge Simpson off?' another fan added. 'Marge Simpson is dead?' a third critic commented. 'Utter woke nonsense!' Surprisingly, Selman welcomed the backlash and claimed that it was further proof that 'The Simpsons' and its beloved characters are still relevant after 36 years on TV. 'I guess this speaks to the fact that people care about Marge,' he told Variety. 'At the end of the day, it's probably good for business even when these ridiculous, misleading stories go viral!' 'The Simpsons,' which premiered on Fox in 1989, remains the longest-running animated show on television. Fox renewed the show, which has won 37 Emmys, for four more seasons in April. This article originally appeared in The NY Post and was reproduced with permission.
News.com.au
29-06-2025
- Entertainment
- News.com.au
‘The Simpsons' producer breaks silence on Marge Simpson's shocking death after fan backlash
'The Simpsons' executive producer Matt Selman has spoken out about the surprising decision to 'kill off' Marge Simpson during a flashforward scene in the show's Season 36 finale. Although the move caused major controversy within the hit cartoon's loyal fanbase, Selman slammed the backlash and claimed that it was 'ridiculous', The NY Post reports. 'Obviously, since 'The Simpsons' future episodes are all speculative fantasies, they're all different every time,' he told Variety during an interview published on Thursday, June 26. 'Marge will probably never be dead ever again. The only place Marge is dead is in one future episode that aired six weeks ago,' Selman, 53, added. ''The Simpsons' doesn't even have canon!' The episode in question, titled 'Estranger Things' and which aired on May 18, focuses on siblings Bart and Lisa Simpson as they slowly grow apart after they stop watching 'The Itchy & Scratchy Show' together. After a 35-year time jump, the audience learns that Marge has died, Bart and Lisa are estranged, and Homer Simpson, the family's dad, is living in a retirement home. A short scene from Marge's funeral shows Homer in tears while the rest of the Simpsons family stands around him. At the end of the Season 36 finale, Marge watches from Heaven as Bart and Lisa save their dad from the retirement home and reconnect over a reboot of 'The Itchy & Scratchy Show.' 'I'm so happy my kids are close again,' the Simpsons family matriarch says. It is then revealed that Marge met and married Beatles superstar Ringo Starr while in Heaven. But viewers were not happy to learn that the show's creators 'killed off' Marge Simpson, and many took to social media to express their shock and outrage. 'I haven't even watched The Simpsons in 10+ years but they really killed MARGE?!' one person wrote on X after the episode aired. 'What's this I'm hearing they killed Marge Simpson off?' another fan added. 'Marge Simpson is dead?' a third critic commented. 'Utter woke nonsense!' Surprisingly, Selman welcomed the backlash and claimed that it was further proof that 'The Simpsons' and its beloved characters are still relevant after 36 years on TV. 'I guess this speaks to the fact that people care about Marge,' he told Variety. 'At the end of the day, it's probably good for business even when these ridiculous, misleading stories go viral!' 'The Simpsons,' which premiered on Fox in 1989, remains the longest-running animated show on television. Fox renewed the show, which has won 37 Emmys, for four more seasons in April.
Yahoo
29-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
'The Simpsons' Just Killed Off Marge, but It's Not What You Think
The Simpsons just wrapped its 36th season with an emotional jolt that sent fans into a frenzy—Marge Simpson, the blue-haired matriarch of America's longest-running animated family, was shown dead and in heaven. But before anyone grabs a tissue or a protest sign, there's more to the story. Titled 'Estranger Things,' the episode flashes forward 35 years into the future, where Marge is not only dead, but apparently in heaven with Ringo Starr. Yes, really. But before longtime viewers panic, here's the good news: No, Marge isn't going anywhere. The finale explored a what-if future timeline, something The Simpsons has done many times before. These flash-forward episodes don't alter the main canon, which means Marge will still be around when the series returns for Season 37, and beyond, as the show is already renewed through Season 40. Still, the episode packed a punch. It opens in the present day with Marge urging Bart and Lisa not to drift apart. 'You share a journey with your siblings that no one else will ever understand,' she tells them, teary-eyed. Cut to decades later, and her warning goes ignored—Lisa is an NBA commissioner, Bart's running a shady retirement scam, and Homer ends up shipped off to Florida, which is then a prison-state for the elderly. Marge's death is revealed via tombstone, with a Sarah McLachlan ballad confirming she passed away before Homer. A heartfelt video message from Marge eventually inspires Bart and Lisa to reconnect and to rescue Homer from his Florida fate. In the final scenes, Marge is shown watching her reunited family from heaven, delighted to see them close again. She then shares a kiss with Ringo Starr and jokes, 'I'm just so glad we're allowed to marry different people in heaven.' It was surreal, emotional, and hilarious,but it wasn't the end of Marge. Just another creative detour in a show that continues to surprise, even after 36 seasons. The Simpsons is streaming now on Hulu and Disney+.'The Simpsons' Just Killed Off Marge, but It's Not What You Think first appeared on Men's Journal on Jun 26, 2025
CTV News
26-06-2025
- Entertainment
- CTV News
A glimpse of Marge Simpson's death in a flash-forward episode still sending shockwaves through the fandom
Marge feels an overwhelming dread of the empty nest in the "A Mid-Childhood Night's Dream" episode of "The Simpsons." (FOX via CNN Newsource) If you aren't yet caught up with the latest episodes of The Simpsons, be warned: there are spoilers ahead. It's been more than a month since the death of a beloved cartoon character was foretold by the series. But fans still say they're in shock that Marge Simpson, the beloved, blue-haired matriarch, will die before her husband. The episode begins by showing that Lisa and Bart Simpson (voiced by Yeardley Smith and Nancy Cartwright) have drifted apart. In the season finale episode titled 'Estranger Things,' the oldest children of Homer and Marge (Dan Castellaneta and Julie Kavner) suggests the siblings no longer spend time together at this point in the future.' This sets in motion the events that lead to the revelation in a flash-forward sequence that Marge eventually dies before Homer. Few details are revealed about what happened, or when the show might catch up to this point. The episode reveals a future in which a now-adult Lisa is the commissioner of the WNBA. Bart, however, remains in Springfield and a widowed Homer lives in a retirement lookahead shows the late Marge spending time with Beatles musician Ringo Starr (who is still alive in real life) in heaven. 'I'm just so glad we're allowed to marry different people in heaven,' Marge says as the episode ends. Even if this reveal is accurate to the show's eventual storyline and not a dream sequence or alternate future, there is nothing to suggest that Marge won't be featured in the next season. Still, the death was emotional for fans whose mourning has continued a month after the episode aired. 'OMG THEY KILLED MARGE it's a sad day for us Simpsons lovers,' one person posted on social media. This is not the first death in the show since it first aired in 1989, but it is the first time the showrunners have shown the death of one of the main family members. The Simpsons have killed off many characters through the years, including Frank Grimes, Maude Flanders, Edna Krabappel and Larry Dalrymple ( has kept a track of them all). But you can breathe easy: Marge is not going anywhere just yet. It was announced in April that the show has been renewed for four more seasons. Kavner will likely return, since Marge's death happens later in the show's timeline. Matt Groening, the creator of the series, told Variety that The Simpsons fandom is 'as intense as ever,' despite being the longest-running animation series in North America. The death of the Marge character represents a break from how things played out in the Groening family. Matt Groening named Homer and Marge for his parents, and his mother outlived his father.
