A big 2024 THANK YOU (and a bit of data)

Grateful to my readers (and listeners), to my guests, to my collaborators, and to all who have supported me in my initial year as a full-time writer ❤️

I started 6 'P's in AI Pods in March 2024 as a 100% reader-supported publication (no ads, no affiliate links, no paywalls on new posts). This year-end summary post is to thank everyone who has helped me to make “AI6P” a success. Like many other ventures in life, it does ‘take a village’.

🗣️ Quick note for those who prefer listening to reading: Substack now supports read-aloud natively in the Substack app. Give it a try and let me know what you think!

Wordcloud image saying “thank you” in multiple languages. By Ashashyou, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Thank You to my “AI, Software, & Wetware” Guests!

Our AI, Software, & Wetware (AISW) interview series was launched on August 1, 2024. As of Dec. 31, we will have published 36 interviews with people in various roles!

• To date, guests are based in 8 countries: 🇨🇦 Canada (2 provinces), 🇨🇷 Costa Rica, 🇩🇰 Denmark, 🇩🇪 Germany, 🇮🇳 India (3 metro areas), 🇮🇹Italy, 🇸🇪 Sweden, 🇺🇸 USA (3 US states).

• In 2025, we’ll be featuring guests from 10+ more countries: 🇦🇺 Australia, 🇦🇹 Austria, 🇧🇷 Brazil, 🇨🇳 China, 🇫🇮 Finland, 🇫🇷 France, 🇲🇾 Malaysia, 🇵🇹 Portugal, 🇪🇸 Spain, 🇬🇧 UK.

I want to again thank these 2024 guests for sharing their time and thoughts with me and with our readers:

• 19 Audio interviews -

  Kathy Gerstorff
  ,
  Stella Fosse
  , Ralf Gitzel, Angeline Corvaglia, Thalia Barry,
  Riccardo Vocca
  ,
  Gilda Alvarez
  , Tracy Bannon,
  Roberto Becchini
  ,
  Steph Fuccio, Coffeelike Media
  ,
  Quentin Vandermerwe
  , Rola Shaar,
  Kris Holland
  , Dr. Julie Rennecker, Heiner Leiva, Melanie Smiley,
  Chris Dalla Riva
  , Anyela Vega,
  Paul Chaney

• 17 Written interviews:

  • 9 Credited -

    Jermaine Allgood
    , Yanmeng Ba, Sofia Zätterström,
    Amanda Rose Fadely
    ,
    SENTHIL C
    , Dr.
    Mary Marcel
    , Prateeti Mohapatra,
    Lakshmi Veeramani
    , Lis Sandi-Diaz

  • 8 Uncredited - Anonymous1, Anonymous2, Anonymous3, Anonymous4, Anonymous5, Anonymous6, Anonymous7, Anonymous8

Your candor and kindness have made this interview series wonderful. I learned something from every one of you, and my readers have shared that they’ve enjoyed hearing your insights too. Thank you so much!

For visualizations of the locations, genders, and ethnicities of AI, Software, & Wetware interview guests in 2024, and some insights on what they all had to say about ethical AI, see this Dec. 16 post.

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Thank You to my Collaborators

This newsletter was enriched in 2024 by the special contributions of:

• article co-authors

  Lakshmi Veeramani
  (links 1, 2, 3) and
  Autumn Chadwick
  (link)

• feedback providers

  Catherine Louis
  and
  Gee

• guest author

  Laura Wilde, PhD.
  (link)

• cross-post article authors

  Krista Bradford
  (link) and Cecelia Callas (link)

• interviewer

  Jana
  (
  Coffee Break Newsletter
  ) (link)

Thank you all for your thoughtful engagement!

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Thank You to my Supporters

• To

  Suzi Travis
  and
  Michael Spencer
  for being among the first to warmly welcome me to Substack, and to recommend my fledgling AI newsletters to their subscribers. (31 AI6P subscribers so far via Suzi, 15 via Michael!) And to
  Charlie Guo
  for recommending this newsletter in his year-end roundup yesterday (13 new subscribers already)!

• To

  Kristina God
  ,
  Russell Nohelty
  , and
  Claire Venus (she/her) ✨
  for generously sharing their expertise on ‘how to Substack’ with me and so many other newbies; to
  Kate Strachnyi
  for sharing behind-the-scenes insights and data; and to
  Steph Fuccio, Coffeelike Media
  for her kind expert assistance with podcasting.

• To new friends like

  Amanda Rose Fadely
  and
  Stella Fosse
  for encouraging me as a writer - here on Substack and on my books in progress.

• To special readers like

  Kathy Gerstorff
  ,
  Arman Anwar
  , and
  Mary Marcel
  whose tips and paid subscriptions encourage me in believing that my work and writing have real value.

• To kind Bluesky people like Michael Spencer (again) and Eileen Clancy who took their time to help this ‘newsky’ get started - on posting about AI on Bluesky, and on finding amazing people savvy about ethical AI to follow & learn from.

I would not be where I am today without your generous support. It means the world to me. Thank you so much!

Thank You to my Readers

To all of you - from 30 countries and 20 US states - I’m so grateful for your feedback, shares, hearts, restacks, Notes, and emails! You make the effort of writing & recording this newsletter more rewarding, and I want you to know that I appreciate your time.

Since many of y’all enjoy data, analysis, and visualization as much as I do, here are some “vizzes” of this year’s subscriber data as of Dec. 16, 2024:

Graph of number of subscribers to 6 ‘P’s in AI Pods from launch to Dec. 16, 2024. Start: 0. Current: 153.

Subscriber Report map showing 30 countries with subscribers to 6 ‘P’s in AI Pods in 2024 as of Dec. 15, 2024. Top 5 are US (55%), India (10%, UK (5%), Canada (3%), and France (2%).

Subscriber Report map showing 20 US states with subscribers to 6 ‘P’s in AI Pods as of Dec. 15, 2024. Top 5 are California (18%), Texas (13%), North Carolina (10%), Pennsylvania (9%), New York (9%).

Data on podcast listeners and their locations is in this Dec. 16 post.

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What’s Next?

Two more interviews will be published on the next (last) two Thursdays this month. I’ll be back in 2025 with:

• more “AI, Software, & Wetware” interviews from more locations worldwide;

• more articles on ethics of AI for music and other areas; more AI Fundamentals;

• and maybe some sneak previews of proposals or draft chapters for books on AI.

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Happy New Year to all!

6 'P's in AI Pods is a 100% reader-supported publication (no ads, no affiliate links, no paywalls on new posts). If you enjoy my work, I’d love to have your support via shares, hearts, restacks, Notes, one-time tips, or voluntary donations via paid subscriptions!

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References

AI, Software, & Wetware Interview List