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70-Year-Old Retiree Uses AI Every Day as an Assistant
A retired lawyer explains how he uses chatbots to get answers and learn new things in retirement.
- Profession
- Retiree
- Tools
- ChatGPT
- Source
- businessinsider.com ↗
- Country
- 🇺🇸 United States
- Report date
- August 9, 2025
- Verified on
- October 24, 2026
What they did
After 30 years practicing law, he uses AI almost every day as an assistant and advisor for research and personal tasks.
How it went
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Good to know
Scams target older people. Never share a password or bank code, not even with an AI.
The prompt
I'm [age] years old and I want to learn [subject]. Explain it as if to someone in no hurry, in 5 short steps, and ask me a question at the end of each step to check that I understood.
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