New Year Resolutions?

I don't usually do New Year's resolutions. But I've got one this year.

I want to get 1 million people AI-ready.

That's a lot. And I can't do it alone. I need your help.

I can only teach so many people directly. Even with social media, even with courses and newsletters and live streams - there's a ceiling. I'm one person.

And … I’m limited.

I don't speak every industry's language. What's the point of me teaching AI to lawyers? To hospitality managers? To engineers? I don't know their workflows. I don't know which tasks are eating up their time, which problems keep them up at night, which use cases would actually transform how they work.

I also can’t speak for every population. AI for parents? No idea, I’m not a parent. AI for female entrepreneurs - again, not something I can speak to!

At least I’m honest enough to admit it’s not my place! Ha!

But here’s the thing…

You do.

You know your industry. You know your demographics. You know your community.

And honestly - as a straight white dude, it's not my place to tell certain communities what's up. Let’s be honest, we've got enough straight white dudes doing that already! (We’re pretty infamous for it!)

There are groups I can't reach, people who won't hear it from me, communities where someone else needs to carry this message.

That's where you come in.

I already see this happening. People send me messages saying they've shown my stuff to their parents, their kids, their colleagues, their class. That's so so cool. That's exactly what needs to happen.

But we need to scale it. Properly.

Because people are falling behind. And AI is about to start biting hard.

The last couple of years have been a warm up. But now the capability is there. The AIs are suddenly good. Really good.

I’ll use one example. If you're not a programmer, you might not have seen the discourse. For the last couple of years, coders were saying AI output was slop. Overhyped. Not ready. And they were kinda right!

Then in the past month or so, something shifted. Claude Opus 4.5 landed and suddenly the tone changed. People realised it's game over for lower-level coding work. It’s done. It’s a “solved problem”.

Now this is just programming. This happened to coders first because the AI labs focused there. But it's coming for most knowledge-based industries. Soon.

Most people have no idea what's about to hit them. They're not paying attention. They don't see the train coming.

On the other hand you know what’s coming. You can see what’s about to hit them.

We have a duty to help people through this transition. To get them ready. Because they're not going to see it until it's too late.

The phrase that keeps coming back to me is capability overhang.

Ethan Mollick talks about this. AI has improved massively over the past two years.

Don’t believe me? Go and try GPT3. Or if you are feeling masochistic, GPT2 ha!

It’s come a hell of a long way.

But we, the humans? We haven't caught up. Not even close. Even if AI development stopped completely right now - no new models, nothing - we'd spend years just learning to use what already exists.

It’s us fleshy humans that are falling behind. We’re not learning how to use AI at the same speed as AI is itself developing…

The tools are there. Stupidly powerful. Most people aren't using them. OR they are using them in the same way they were 2-3 years ago. Worrying about dumb stuff like “how many Rs in strawberry”…

There's this enormous gap between what's possible and what's actually happening.

That gap is the problem. But it's also where the opportunity is.

OK to recap!

1. I want to help 1 million people get AI ready.

2. There’s a huge capability overhang.

And here's what I've realised: I can't close that gap for those 1 million people. Not on my own, and not for everyone. No way.

The gap gets closed by people who've worked it out for their people.

Someone who's figured out AI for legal work, teaching other lawyers. A parent who's navigated AI with their kids, helping other parents do the same. An engineer who's integrated AI into their workflows, showing their colleagues the ropes.

You have something I don't have: domain expertise. Lived experience. The language of your industry, your community, your people.

That's not a “nice-to-have” thing. That's the thing.

Generic AI education from someone who doesn't understand your world? Mostly useless. I've seen it. Fancy consultants talking about neural networks to executives who just want to know how to save time on admin… Completely disconnected.

But someone who's in that world, who gets it, who can translate? That's SUPER valuable. They need you.

The nice thing here is that you can also get paid (well) to perform this service for your community, your niche. There are rewards for those who step up to help. I've been running workshops for $1,000-4,000 an hour. Now I want to put those same tools in your hands.

Because I need help getting to a million. And honestly? The people who'll have the biggest impact aren't going to be pure AI experts. They're going to be industry experts, community leaders, people with lived experience - who also happen to know AI.

That's a small group. You're in it.

Next week I'll share more about how you can get involved.

I’m running two webinars to talk about this live. Dates are:

• Tuesday 6th, 6PM London time

• Thursday 8th, 6PM London time

Details + free registration for both here: https://aiwithkyle.com/ai-workshop-series/webinar

Happy New Year!

Kyle