AI isn’t just a problem, it’s a solution. Some people are already making the most of it

On a Saturday evening in Enfield, Conn., Lonnie DiNello was lying in bed, depressed, when she opened ChatGPT and typed: "I just feel so alone." What happened next, documented by the Boston Globe, wasn’t your typical artificial intelligence (AI) breakthrough covered in policy papers or tech headlines. It was something more ordinary, and arguably more important: a vulnerable human being used a new technology to get through a hard moment. That exchange became the seed of what DiNello now calls her...