"It would tell men: get a financial advisor, write your will, build an investment strategy. It would tell women: bulk shop for groceries… get married." That's ChatGPT on money. It's also the tamest thing Emily Janoch has caught AI doing.

Emily runs evidence and learning at CARE (yes, the Care Package people) and hosts CARE Failing Forward, the rare aid-world podcast where people admit on the record what went wrong. She's a skeptic who uses AI every day, and she came with receipts: the beautifully formatted child-marriage report where every single statistic was fabricated ("you didn't tell me to read the sources you gave me"), the health chatbot that answered perfectly in a language none of its patients spoke, and the weekend vibe-coded tools that skip every step where you'd ask a real human, does this work for you?

Also in here: why a phone isn't access when a husband can confiscate it, what 1990s radio soap operas in Uganda have to teach AI rollouts, Emily's three questions to answer with a ballpoint pen before you touch a laptop, and everyone's favorite way to curse at Claude.

The reason to send this one to a friend: Copilot telling Emily that the person she really needed to email was a woman named Emily Janoch. And stay for the line that named the episode.

→ CARE: https://www.care.org/
→ CARE Failing Forward: https://open.spotify.com/show/1lumDcSDF6gqDR6frQuUbP

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