Everyone’s talking about AI, but let’s be honest: most people can’t explain what it is, let alone use it without making a mess. In this session, I’ll strip away the jargon and explain (in plain language) what AI and large language models actually are, and how they can really help us in teaching, assessment, career development, and the daily grind of health professions education. And then we’ll flip the coin: the lazy shortcuts, the ethical tripwires, and the places where AI does more harm than good. This isn’t a hype session. It’s a field guide to what’s useful, what’s useless, and what’s dangerous.