Understand the news

Steelman both sides, timeline a story, separate reporting from opinion.

The lesson

Using AI to understand a story rather than react to it: build the timeline, get the strongest version of each side's argument, and learn to spot when you're reading opinion dressed as news.

Try it — 60 seconds

Explain the [news story] debate. Give me the strongest honest case FOR each side, in each side's own terms. Don't tell me which is right.

Copy it into ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini — whichever you already use. Fill in the brackets with your real life.

Watch out

AI's news knowledge has a cutoff and can be wrong about current events entirely. For "what happened today," read the news; use AI for "help me understand it."