Karina Nguyen (OpenAI researcher): "The current generation of creators should not fear job displacement. They should embrace AI as the most powerful tool for imagination ever built." She then spent an hour at Stanford explaining what building with that tool actually requires. Here is what the lecture covers: → two methods for AI product development: familiar form factors for unfamiliar capabilities, or vision-first training toward a product that does not exist yet → debugging model behavior like software: taxonomies, constitutional AI, navigating helpfulness vs harmlessness → RL reward design for subjective creative tasks where there is no ground truth → dynamic generative UIs that adapt to user intent in real time → the decreasing cost of reasoning and what it unlocks for human-AI collaboration The future is not AI replacing creators. It is AI giving creators tools for imagination that have never existed before. free. stanford cs25. worth your afternoon. Follow @neil_xbt for more AI product and research intelligence from the people building what the next generation of creators will use.