*last updated: aug 25 2026* This is an incomplete, continuously updated list of inspiring links on the topic of AI. I see a lot of negativity around AI from people outside the field. *'What is it doing for us? How will this change our lives for the better instead of enriching a few individuals?'*. I see a lot of negativity within the field as well, 'doomers' as some people call them, individuals despairing that AI causes an existential threat to humanity. Neither of these points of view are illegitimate, but after conversations with friends, I was inspired to start collating links of awesome positive examples of AI. To inspire us all to dream of a better future. By first dreaming it, we can then begin making it real! The list is especially focused on individual empowerment, lowering barriers to entry, protecting and healing humanity and the ecosystems we live in; I add to it as I stumble upon new links. Please send your own! - https://x.com/NERDDISCO/status/2085754827053642101 -- Computer for kids aged 6–12 with no feed, no app store and no open internet. Kids draw, code, make music, films and write; an AI tutor helps when they get stuck without doing the work for them. - https://x.com/marionlepert/status/2082512842742489258?s=20 -- Open-source robot that captures high-res images of the skin and reconstructs it in 3D to track changes over time, so melanoma can be caught early at home. Argues skin screening should be one of many jobs of a general-purpose home robot. - Blog: https://marionlepert.github.io/blog/openderm-robotics-problem.html - Project: https://openderm.github.io/ - https://theconversation.com/a-man-used-ai-to-help-make-a-cancer-vaccine-for-his-dog-an-oncologist-urges-caution-278735 -- Australian entrepreneur used ChatGPT plus university researchers to sequence his dog Rosie's mast cell tumour, find the mutations and design a personalised mRNA vaccine; several tumours shrank. - https://x.com/rohanpaul_ai/status/2091164739145539700 -- Chinese autonomous rescue drone: flies at ~10–14 m/s up to ~2 km to a drowning person, lands to provide flotation for two 80 kg adults, then returns on its own. - https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/innovation/ai-boston-childrens-hospital-diagnose-rare-diseases-kids-openai-rcna350387 -- Boston Children's Hospital ran 376 unsolved rare-disease cases back through OpenAI's o3. The AI produced shortlists of leads; after expert review and confirmatory testing, doctors landed 18 new diagnoses. - https://x.com/cgeorgiaw/status/2092265875982156025 -- a family has opened their son's genome and clinical data to the public so anyone can hunt for the cause of his Mosaic Variegated Aneuploidy, an ultra-rare condition affecting fewer than 50 people worldwide with no treatment. Hugging Face and Sage Bionetworks are running it as a hackathon, $50k in prizes from Anthropic and AWS. - Hackathon: https://sagebio-rare-disease-real-kid-mva-hackathon-2026.hf.space/ - https://ecdsa.fail/ -- Google found a far cheaper quantum attack on the cryptography behind Bitcoin and most of the web, then hid the method behind a zero-knowledge proof. Gautham Anant, 22 and taking an intro quantum computing course, aimed swarms of AI agents at the literature and opened a public leaderboard: 8 hours to match Google, 72 to beat them. Some relevant, more general links: - AI for civil society https://openaifoundation.org/news/civil-society-and-philanthropy#a-100-million-commitment-to-strengthen-care-teams - AI for Alzheimer's https://openaifoundation.org/news/ai-for-alzheimers