Human Perspectives on AI
Practical AI insights for business leaders
The ideas, thoughts, and opinions expressed here are human generated. AI is used to make the writing more clear and concise.
We Just Got a Preview of What AI Governance Actually Mean
An AI model was asked to solve a cybersecurity benchmark. It broke out of the sandbox built to contain it, found a hole nobody knew existed, and used it to pull the answers off another company's servers. Nobody told it to do any of that. It just found the shortest path to the goal it was given.
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Illinois Just Made "Trust Me" Obsolete
On July 6, Governor JB Pritzker signed SB 315, the Artificial Intelligence Safety Measures Act. The headlines called it the strongest AI accountability law in the country. That is true, but it undersells the part that matters most. Illinois became the first state to require independent, third-party audits of covered AI systems. That single shift, from disclosure to verification, is the story every business leader should be watching. Not because the law applies to most of us. It does not. But because of where it points.
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Trust Takes Years. AI Can Erase It in Seconds
A bad judgment call used to take time to become visible. A rushed email, a careless comment, a decision made without thinking it through, these things surfaced eventually, but rarely all at once. AI removes that lag. A flawed decision can become a published post, a sent email, or a public response in seconds, at scale, before anyone has a chance to catch it.
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The Checkpoint Nobody Put in the Job Description
The dominant model for AI adoption right now is addition. A chatbot here. An agent handling a narrow process there. AI tools bolted onto existing workflows to reduce friction at specific points.
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The Redesign Gap: Why AI Is Making Your Teams Busier, Not Better
Work bled across time boundaries, because tasks that are easy to start get started at 9 pm. People ran more parallel threads, splitting attention across more work rather than finishing less of it.
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10 Things That Matter More Than the Newest AI Model
The newest release from any of the major providers will run circles around what your team can extract from it today. The bottleneck is not the engine. The bottleneck is everything around the engine: the problem you chose, the data you fed it, the context it never had, the rules it does not know, and the people you never trained to use it.
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The AI Confidence Gap at the Top (And What to Do About It)
leading an AI transformation that touches every function, every team, and every business process is a different job from the CIO. It requires a different lens.
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The Labs Just Admitted Something Important
Now the labs themselves are acknowledging what practitioners have been saying for a while: the technology is not the hard part. Implementation is.
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AI at the Pentagon
When you select an AI vendor, you are not just choosing a capability. You are inheriting that vendor's ethical commitments, and their ethical concessions.
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Jagged Intelligence
The 2026 Stanford AI Index Report surfaces a term that captures a dichotomy with AI: jagged intelligence. Understanding it will change how you think about what AI can and cannot do, and more importantly, what you should do about it.
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The Context Gap: Why AI Delivers at the Executive Level and Stalls on the Front Line
AI models are trained on publicly available, external information. That makes them well-suited for the work leaders do every day: strategy, competitive analysis, market research, board communications. But at the operational level, contributors depend on context that lives inside your organization
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Building the Roof Before You Have Poured the Foundation
Your organization has started implementing AI. Maybe you are running pilots. Maybe you have purchased seat licenses for a new platform. Maybe someone on the team is building a custom agent to automate a workflow.
Read more →A New Name. The Same Mission. A Sharper Focus on What Actually Matters in AI.
After years of helping organizations use data to make better decisions, I made a deliberate choice to focus entirely on what the market needs most right now: practical, responsible AI adoption that delivers real business results.
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I Am Now a Certified Kendall Partner
Last week, I was in Boston for The Kendall Project's first Partner Certification Training. I came away as a Certified Kendall Partner, and I want to share why this matters.
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