The U.S. Government is LITERALLY Paying Adults Over 50 to Use AI!

0:00 If you are over 50 and you want to get paid by the government to use AI, I'm going to show you in this video exactly how to do that. You're going to want to stick around. I'm going to show you a couple of opportunities that are free. All of this is free uh for the most part. There is a $15 one, but most of this is free. And there are people who are even paying you. So, what I wanted to do is make this video for anybody who is 50 plus. I hear you in my comments. I read every single comment. I don't know if you know that, but I get thousands of comments every week and I read every single one on here on YouTube. And I have been putting out information about AI and a lot of people have said, "Hey, a lot of these opportunities are for

0:47 younger people. Where are the senior opportunities?" I got you. I got you. Now, granted, there aren't a ton out in the world to begin with, but we're going to create opportunity. So, I found the ones that are active right now. I made sure they're legit because a lot of times with AI and seniors, there can be some scam artists out there, and I don't want that to happen to you. I want you to be very prepared and understand that sometimes people are going to use AI to try to fool you. So, you can trust me. If you want to go to Google and look up my name, [clears throat] it's Arllin Hamilton. A R L A N Hamilton. You look up my name and you'll see article after

1:32 article after article, video video where it talks about how I used to be homeless and then I got my life together and I started a venture capital firm to invest in companies and I've invested in more than 200 of them and now I help people online and I have free lots of free stuff like all these videos on YouTube and a free membership and I also have things that I charge for like courses and consulting things like that this video I'm just giving it to you for free to give you information. Okay? And any of the websites that I feature in this video, I'm going to link them below in the description below this video and in the pinned comment that's at the top of the comments. I'll um try to say them

2:17 out loud, too, and you can see them on the screen. So, hopefully you'll be able to to see these and uh go to them. But we're going to start with uh AARP. So A ARP is probably very familiar to you if you're in the US and you're 50 plus because once you hit 50 you start getting uh the you start getting invited to this. Now I am 45 and um I have not been invited to AARP. I think I did an article for them once though. So the first thing I want to show you is that they have this free AI which stands for artificial intelligence basics course and it is available until January 1st 2027. Now if you're seeing

3:03 this after that date you just go to the site and see if it's still there but they'll give you all of these uh information all this information for seniors in AI and you get all these credits. I'm not sure where they go, but you get credits for it, which is really cool. It's accredited by five different places, and you just get to understand all of this AI. This seems pretty intensive. So, if you're into it, you can do that. Now, I say that the $15 that I mentioned before is that this is $0 if you are an AARP member. If you're not, you pay $55. But in order to just be a member, you just pay $15 your first year and then $20 after that. I'm not getting paid for this. I'm just letting you know about it. So, this is what I

3:49 found is that you pay a AARP $15 for the first year and then it seems like uh yeah, it says first year and then I and I believe the the regular year is $20. So, you it's really worth it in my opinion. I' I've I've seen it everywhere. uh they they're kind of known for being the place for seniors and I think it's a good deal. So once you become a member at aarp.org org and you can just go there and there's join buttons everywhere or you can do forward slashmembership. You become a member and then you go over here to their um they have a job skills section. They have a courses section. You'll be able to find it but here I'll put the links below as I said and then you can get this for free. So that's the

4:34 first thing I want to show you. Okay. The second thing I want to show you is even cooler in my opinion and it's still related to AARP. You can see here, I mean, if you're on mobile, this may be super small for you, but this is called Senior Planet, and it is a nonprofit that was built and backed by AARP. And what it does is that it gives you all of these not only courses but they're live courses where you get to hang out with different different people who do these courses. So for instance upcoming classes on AI senior planet from AARP for instance uh Tuesday June 23rd everyday uses of AI. The session will be recorded so it

5:21 sounds like you can get the replay if you missed that. And it's by Johnny Hernandez. Let's check out Johnny. Like, okay, so it's it's I'll tell you what it does. So, with a background in communications, Johnny worked in television production and print journalism uh until he made the best career change to become a technology trainer for Senior Planet in 2019. He has been here for a while. A retired musician of 30 years, Johnny is also passionate about music and feels that drumming has kept him young at heart and healthy all around. He combines his passion for technology, education, and music at Senior Planet. You can find him teaching drum circle and many technology

6:07 lectures and demos online. So, this is just one of the courses. Okay, so that's Johnny. Here's some of here are some of more of his upcoming classes. So, he has understanding internet plans, open discussion where you just have a lunch and learn. Uh, Instagram posts and story demos. That's really cool. I'm I'm I'm stoked about Johnny here. Okay, so that's just one of them. So, here's some more um AI image generators from Zeke. AI and disinformation from Johnny again. So, it's a few times a week they'll have these courses for you, okay? And there's a guide book and everything. Videos on AI. Love it. So, you can just get started right away. They have videos.

6:52 This is all free. You don't even have to be a member to get this for free. This is just simply free. They even have a hotline that you can call. Now, if you're not in the US, the research that I did was that you can still come to these classes since they're on Zoom. It seems I think it's Zoom. Maybe it's something else. You can still come to these classes, but you just can't go to the in-person classes. Now, in-person classes also happen. So, in Denver, Colorado Miami Florida Montgomery County, Maryland, New York City, North Country, New York, and San Antonio, Texas, they have in-person classes. Not only that, they have different things,

7:37 not just AI because it's not all about a AI, right? Health and wellness, technology of all kinds, social connection, life and culture, working and money, creativity. Let's check out working and money real quick. Work and money, website builders at a glance. That's what I've teach. I teach that, too. Intro to estate planning. Wonderful. Online shopping. I mean, this is I wish I were 50. [laughter] Ah, I guess I could still go to, but this is super cool. Super cool. Okay. So, you have all of that and I'm going to link to it in the description below, but please here I'm going to say it out loud. seniorplanlet.org. Og. So, seniorplanet one word.orgai.

8:25 So, just write that down or go to the link below. Seniorplanet.orgai. Very cool. Now you're saying, "Okay, what about the US government paying me?" Okay, here we are. We are now on the US Department of Labor, the official government site. And this is where senior community service employment program is. So the senior community service employment program is a community service and work-based job training program for older Americans authorized by the Older Americans Act. The program provides training for lowincome unemployed seniors. Participants also have access to employment assistant through American

9:11 Job Centers. So it says participants work an average of 20 hours a week and are paid the now this I want you to listen to the wording of this are paid the highest of federal, state or local minimum wage. This training serves as a bridge to unsubsidized employment opportunities which means you get a job here as a senior and I don't know the age yet. Uh I think oh yeah it's 55. So the a AARP is 50 plus and this is 55 plus. So you get a position here part-time 20 hours per week and if you it can be a bridge you get paid for it if it can be

9:56 a bridge to something else. Now, let me tell you what the um what they they uh center. Okay, this is really cool. Participants must be at least 55, unemployed, and have a family income of no more than 125% of the federal poverty level. So, I don't know what that level is. I I could look it up. Let me look it up so I don't say something that it's not true. federal poverty level level it is 15,960 for individuals and 33,000 for a family of four. So let's say it's 16,000 and then 125,000 of that would be 20,000. So give or take obviously not exactly that.

10:41 So or maybe it is exactly that. So let me let me show you this again with that context. So, it says participants must be at least 55, unemployed, and have a family income of no more than let's say 20,000 or so. Enrollment prior enrollment, I'm sorry, a family income of no more than the poverty. So, the family of four is 33,000 poverty level. So that would be uh like uh 41,000ish if you make 41,000 in your household of four or less. Or if you're an individual, you live by yourself and I'm assuming maybe if you're with a partner, maybe it's, you know, you just double

11:28 that. Um uh yeah, I just want to make sure because I don't want to give you may. I want to tell you the truth here. I hope you'll indulge me while I figure this out. One second. Okay, I'm doing some research here. Okay, it's based on a household rather than marital status. Spouses, cohabitating partners, and dependents are grouped into a single unit. Okay, so if you have a Oh, perfect. So, if you're an individual, one person household, it's about 16,000 annually. Okay. If you are a couple or a family of two, it is the poverty level 2026 US is

12:13 21,640 annually. Family of three is 27,320 and family of four is 33,000 annually. So you take that number and you multiply it by 1.25. And as long as you're making that or less, and if you need to know that those numbers, just rewind this. But as long as you're um making that or less, then you can apply for this. Now, this is going to get really exciting. Let me show you all the opportunities there are. Okay, so I'm going to keep telling you what the what the uh what it says. So enrollment priority, this is my favorite part, is given to veterans and qualified spouses.

12:58 Then to individuals who are 65 plus, then who have a disability, have a low literacy skill or limited English proficiency, reside in a rural rural, that's a hard word for me to say apparently, area, but you know what I mean. are homeless or at risk of homelessness, have low employment prospects, or have failed to uh who have failed to find employment after using services through the American Job Center system. These are what are uh given priority. Anybody 55 plus can apply, but these are given priority. So, I know from the comments this is reaching a lot of people in my comments. So, I'm very happy to say this. Okay. Now, how do we do it? Well,

13:46 it says for more information for programs in your area, use the career onetop. So, we were here at DO, which stands for Department of Labor, d.gov, gov slash agencies slavers with an s. Now, I will put this linked below. So, I'm going to click on older worker program finder and it's going to take me here. Actually, I won't do that because I want to keep it. But it takes me here. Oh, there it is. Okay. So, it takes me here and I selected Texas. But you on the left side here, if you have a

14:32 desktop or I'm sure somewhere else if you have mobile, you can select your location by state. I chose Texas because that's where my mom lives and she's 77. So, I wanted to see what they had if they had something available for her. Currently, at the time of taping this, there are 21 programs in Texas. And the very first one has to do with AARP, the AARP Foundation. So, I'm going to click on that, see what that's all about, and let's see what it says. It gives a phone number and an email address. And I guess you just call them and find out what's going on. Now, there's a couple others that are have more information like this one s Texas Bowmont. So, if you're in Bumont, Texas, they actually have a website for it. And this is the website that I

15:17 already opened. And it says, "We are investors." Basically saying that they invest in hundreds of underserved communities by carrying out unique work force development. So the very first thing you see here is senior community service employment program. Since 20 2003, STR National has been funded by the US Department of Labor to operate the senior community service employment program focusing on the training and employment needs of the mature worker. So I'm going to click learn more. It's going to it's going to take me here also speaks uh you can uh see this in

16:02 Spanish and this is a workbased training program for older Americans. You can watch this video to learn more information and you can get you can apply for it. Okay? And it tells you the same thing that the other ones said before. So they will they will hire you for up to 20 hours for the week and they will pay you and you will learn along the way. If you're an employer watching this and you want to incorporate this, you can do that, too. If you're a host agency, you want to do that, too. So, someone can be placed at your location. It's too cool. They also do this in California Kansas Wisconsin Colorado and of course, Texas, where we started. So, that is very cool. That's just one in one state. So, there's probably about a thousand or so, maybe 500 to a

16:49 thousand opportunities across the country. There's another one here at Texas Workforce Commission. A lot of AARP, lots of AARP in Texas. Goodwill Industries of El Paso. And some of them have these websites that you can click on. I know this is very small on the screen if you're on mobile. Um, but some of these have websites you can click on, and some of them just have like, okay, here's information. Give us a call. Let's do another state. Uh, let's see. I'm going to do let's see if your state is the one I choose. I'm going to do Mississippi. See if there's anything there because I was born in Mississippi. 14 opportunities in Mississippi. Okay, here's one I'm just going to click on randomly. Division of Aging and Adult Services.

17:37 Let's see. Helping Mississippi's older adults, vulnerable adults, and caregivers caregivers connect to the services they need. This is interesting. Okay. So, I'm not 100% sure if this is completely AI. I don't think this is completely AI. I just think this is giving older workers something to do, something to be paid for. So, I would take a closer look at that. But some of these look like they're going to be AI. Some of them are going to be other related. And that's very cool. Very cool. 14. Let's do one more just to show you that it's everywhere. Uh let's say Georgia. Seven opportunities.

18:24 Okay. So you have what is this one? A lot of AARP again. They're showing up. The Legacy Link, Athens Community Council on Aging. Just a lot of different programs that you can work at and you can do all kinds of things there. It's just very cool. And I think that if I spent, you know, another hour or so, I could just dial in of the 500 opportunities or however many there are, find the 50 that are AI related. But these are all available for you, okay? They're all here. Um, you have these opportunities. And like what I want you to do is go to the senior planet, learn about AI in these different classes. Even if you can't make a live class, you

19:11 can watch the replays. And then I think there probably is opportunity to ask questions and you could say what kind of job opportunities are there for me. Now the last thing I want to do is tell you how you can make money with AI as a senior or as an older adult on your own as an entrepreneur. Now there's getting the job and then there's also the entrepreneur angle which you know I love. Okay. So there are millions of small businesses and large businesses in the world. There are thousands that are accessible like that you could just do a keyword search or find. There are hundreds that are around you that you know if you were to go outside there would be around you in your city and all of these companies

19:57 are looking at not all of them but many of the companies are looking at ways to use AI and some of them are smart enough to know and clever enough to know that they need to understand how seniors use AI. So you could have a an offer on your Stan store which is a is a platform you can sell digital products or phone calls stand.store. I do a lot of training on that on my channel here. You could have a stand store that's like $100 or $150 to start and it's where you will use that company's AI for like 30 minutes or an

20:43 hour and then you'll tell them how it felt to use it. And you will be their senior expert, their senior AI expert. like you're not an expert on AI. You're an expert on being a senior. So, you're saying, "I will go in and use your AI tool, whatever you're selling or whatever you have for customer service or whatever it may be, the way you're using AI, and I, let's say it's a pizza shop that's using AI, or let's say it's a a clinic that's using AI, and they have AI, and it's, you know, on their site, maybe it's a customer service chatbot or something." You say to, you go to that company and you say, "I'm a senior." You have a lot of seniors most

21:29 likely on your site. I do quality control. You know when people go into stores and they're like secret store shoppers, right? That's the kind of thing you're doing. I'm going to do some quality control. I will use your product to see how it helped me and to see where there's some room for improvement. And then you use it. They pay you 150 and you 30 minutes you use it, right? You write down notes. I didn't do this. Oh, I didn't understand that. That's a little, you know, and you're basically going to then report to them. You get on a call with them or you see them in person or you write it out or you'll say or you might even use AI to do a diagnostic and you'll say, "Okay, this was 75% good. The what could uh what I

22:16 liked about it was this. It was easy to find on the page. I like the way it talked to me. It was clear how it asked questions. What I didn't like and what can be improved is that it took too long to answer me. So, I thought it was broken or it the the font was too small. I can't see that font, so I couldn't even mess with it. You know what I'm saying? So, you're going to do that as a service to someone else. And if you want to know how do we find that person and how do I sell to them, that's all what I teach inside of my free membership. So, if you go to the links below among the other links, you'll see a link to your first 5K. We have thousands of people like 31,000 people in it. Plus, many of those more than half more than

23:04 half of those are 50 plus. It's it's a 50 plus skewing. It's 40 plus skewing. Okay. And inside of the classroom, there is training about how do you find a customer? how do you reach out to them etc. And you also have the people inside who want to help and we have our live calls and our live experts for you know it's all part of it it's not for free because we have some of it for free but most of it is uh where you pay uh $45 per month or 360 for the year to be part of the 360 club. But the free stuff you get still you get weekly like I think there's a weekly call for for free and I think there's a monthly call. I think we have a YouTube call. It's really cool. And you can leave messages in the

23:50 community and say, "Hey, I I'm 64 and I need to understand how to do XYZ or has anybody else had experience with this because I was just discriminated against over here." You can just have these conversations with people and be part of something. So, I want to do more and more for seniors. I'm going to be an older adult soon. I'm I guess I'm midlife or a little past midlife. I'm going to be with you soon. But either way, even if I weren't, even if I were 20 years younger, I still think it's really important for everybody to be included. Everybody should be included in this interesting thing. And here's another thing. Even though I like AI and I think it's embedded in our future and it's a great way to make money and a great way to to do all kinds of things,

24:37 you may not like AI. You may have a different opinion than I do. And your voice should be heard. Okay? No matter what your age is, if you're 83 and you don't like AI, that should be something you're able to say. And that's part of the whole conversation that we're having. So, I hope this helped you today. Please let me know in the comments if it helped you. and I'll see you next time.