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AI Governance Is a Consumer Issue

Two tribal governance stories raise a practical consumer-AI question: does changing control improve service? In Washington, the Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe seeks control of ancestral lands now managed as federal wildlife refuges. Local stewardship may improve, but...

AI Healthcare Tools Should Support Real Choices

AI Healthcare Tools Should Support Real Choices The following 2014 paper about online education made a distinction that also matters in healthcare: making information available does not mean people can use it successfully. AI healthcare tools could give consumers...

Social Prescribing Needs More Than a Prescription

Washington is testing whether healthcare providers can connect patients with art, music, dance, writing, and other cultural activities that support well-being and social connection. The important public-service innovation is not the prescription itself. It is the...

When AI Helps Choose a College, Verification Matters

AI may widen access to college guidance, but it can also quietly narrow the choices students see. A recent Christian Science Monitor article examines how artificial intelligence is entering the college search. The convenience may be real, especially for families...

Saint Gabriel, AI, and Human Discernment

   A folk-art image of Saint Gabriel connects an ancient messenger with modern communication technologies, including computers. Readers should notice that the central issue is not the power of the messenger, but the responsibility of the person receiving the...