I am 61 years old and I want to understand AI properly before I retire, not because I have to but because I want to

I am 61 and I work in local government administration. I retire in three years. A lot of my younger colleagues assume I am not interested in AI because of my age and they are wrong. I am genuinely curious and I have been trying to educate myself but most of the resources I find are aimed at people who either already have a technical background or who are trying to use AI for their career.

I do not have a career motive. I have a curiosity motive. I want to understand what this technology actually is, how it works at a level that is more than surface, what it is likely to do to the world my grandchildren grow up in, and whether the concerns I read about are serious or overstated.

Can someone recommend resources that take an intelligent non-technical adult seriously rather than either dumbing everything down or assuming I want to become a developer? Books, podcasts, anything that treats the reader as a thoughtful person rather than a demographic to be simplified for.