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AI governancE & POLICY

This is a crisis of code, culture, and Constitutional law.  The programmers and social scientists who created AI can't get us out of this alignment, hallucination, and regulation mess.

Everyone is talking to the wrong experts.

BACK TO THE IDH

20 YEARS OF PROVEN SOLUTIONS. THANK YOU TO MY ALLIES, PARTNERS, CLIENTS, AND STUDENTS

PRESS and MEDIA

“After Facebook Scandal, Students
Take On Issues of Big Tech.”
NBC KARE-11 Evening News.  Minneapolis, MN:
October 7, 2021.

See all press clips

“The Age of Disinformation.”  
Long-form television interview with Bobby del Rio.  
Open Source: The News Forum.  
Toronto, Canada:  May 15, 2025.

See full interview here

what's under the hood

The IDH provides one holistic method for the whole mess: AI, privacy, free speech, and disinformation.

  • A unified "Meta-Method" (OS) for socio-technical alignment.
  • Instead of "data-labeling" patches, we use a dead-neutral framework derived from Constitutional DNA and 2,000 years of rhetorical theory.
  • Domain-agnostic and fully scalable—providing the "human in the loop" protocols needed for stable, high-stakes civic/legal AI.

Field-tested for 20 years in the classroom and on the streets.   

victory highlights

see all receips here

RESEARCH and DEVELOPMENT

  • Best Paper (Runner Up) Primeaux Award: "Using Narrative Theory to Rethink Digital Ethics."
  • Inaugural Transatlantic Dialogue on AI and Humanity (Paris; Reported in Forbes)
  • Publications that industry/regular people can understand: Nebraska Lawyer, Omaha World-Herald, Competition Policy International

CIVIC ENGAGEMENT

  • Minneapolis' Facial Recognition Ban: Strategic partner on historic bipartisan initiative for our city.
  • IDH TV: Interviews and forums w/ top AI leaders and elected officials.

EDUCATION: K-CEO

  • Netflix's Coded Bias, ADL, and Bytes Media: Interactive high school AI curricula.
  • SXSW EDU (jury + online vote)
  • Trainings/Workshops: American, Iowa, and Nebraska Bar Associations; Indiana Univ.; MN Legal Rights Center;

CIVIC FORUMS and ARTS EXHIBITIONS

“Digital Rights Are Civil Rights: Race and Technology.”  
Juried International Art Exhibition and Community Education Event.  Minneapolis, MN and Online:  
February 2021

With ACLU MN, Safety Not Surveillance, Reclaim the Block, Northeast Sculpture Gallery, Councilman Simon Trautmann (Richfield, MN), and Councilman Steve Fletcher (Minneapolis, MN). 

IDH TV (DEMO)

CROWD-SOURCED COMMUNITY JUDGMENTS:

PREDICTIVE POLICING

IDH ROUNDTABLE W/ ELIZABETH ADAMS
(FORBES TOP 50 IN AI)

At our weekly roundtable.....

CROWD-SOURCED COMMUNITY JUDGMENTS:

EMPLOYMENT AI

BOOKING: NEWS/PODS + Consulting + trainings + SPEAKING

I keep things simple. Just email or DM me


NEWS APPEARANCES:
Same day or remote is fine: Currently in Minneapolis.  
 

SPEAKING

1st crowd of 1000s at 17.  Should have been a game show host.
Speak "both sides" fluently.
 

CONSULTING: 

Send me the gist.  If I'm into it, the first meeting is free.
 

TRAININGS/WORKSHOPS: 

Can get your team up to speed in an hour, on the same page in a day, and make 'em rockstars in a week.
Actionable deliverables.

RESILIENCE + CONFLICT RESOLUTION
My "off menu" specialties. 

CONTACT DR. MCKAIN

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