Readers and media
Writing on AI, accountability, and judgment.
My nonfiction writing lives here: a twice-weekly newsletter and two books on AI, defaults, and who actually owns the decision.
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Why people come here.
Different parts of this site speak to different people. The thread tying them together is simple: when a decision actually carries weight, someone should own it, the controls should be visible, and judgment should stay human.
Organizations
Governance for risk-sensitive AI use.
The firm I founded, for organizations where a wrong AI-influenced call carries real weight. I help them put the ownership, controls, and escalation paths in place so a person stays accountable, not a tool.
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Students should stay in charge.
I started Still in Charge to help schools teach students to use AI without handing over their judgment.
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Speaking on decision governance.
I talk with boards, teams, and classrooms about governing consequential AI decisions, in plain language and without the theater.
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Work map
What I am building.
It looks like a handful of different things, and it is really one: advisory, writing, teaching, standards, and creative work, all circling the same question of who stays accountable when AI is in the room.
Fellowship Intelligence
The advisory firm I founded. I work with organizations where AI touches decisions that carry weight, and help them build the policies, controls, ownership, and escalation paths that keep a named person accountable, not a tool.
fellowshipintelligence.comThe Consigliere
A subscription knowledge system I am building on how AI power is governed, held, and kept accountable. Still in testing, with free registers and logs to start.
theaiconsigliere.comStill in Charge
An independent initiative I run to help schools teach responsible AI use, so students build judgment before the tools start deciding for them. I am looking for school partners now, at no charge.
stillincharge.orgThe Wrong Default
My twice-weekly newsletter, where I think out loud about AI, defaults, and who owns the decision.
thewrongdefault.comAI Decision Governance architecture
A standards-and-assessment architecture I am developing for AI decision governance: what competence should actually mean, and how you would test it, for the people who govern consequential AI-influenced decisions.
Always Questioning
The creators collaborative I founded, a curated home for independent work that points people straight to the maker. My own books and essays are among them.
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Writing
The Wrong Default.
One argument I keep chasing, across a twice-weekly newsletter and two books I am finishing: AI, defaults, and who owns the decision.
The Wrong Default
AI, defaults, and who owns the decision.
Twice a week: one edition traces a real story back to the decision nobody owned, fully sourced, and one is a sharper opinion piece. If you build, run, or answer for AI inside an organization, I wrote it for you.
Read and subscribeThe Wrong Default
How absence becomes a decision, and who pays the cost.
For the parent, the teacher, the leader. How the wrong defaults get installed when powerful technology arrives faster than the systems meant to govern it, and who absorbs the cost when no one is actually deciding.
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Keeping your judgment and your accountability as AI moves into the work.
For the operator and the professional who can feel the crosshairs. What it takes to keep your judgment, hold the context a working life builds, and stay in the decision instead of letting it get made by absence.
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Speaking
Practical AI governance, without theater.
Every talk comes out of the same operating model I use in real engagements, shaped to the room and the time I have.
AI Governance: A Practical Health Check
The full talk and Q&A from Tech Alley, working through the practical reality of using AI responsibly: account tiers, agreements, regulated data, accountability, and the decisions that should not be left unnamed.
AI Governance Is an Org Design Problem
Why most AI risk is not a technology failure but an accountability failure, and what organizations need to install before they scale AI deployment.
What Risk-Sensitive Organizations Get Wrong About AI
The five governance elements most organizations skip, the workflows where absence of control creates the most exposure, and the decisions that cannot be undone once made.
The Consigliere System
How to build an AI thinking partner calibrated to your decisions, constraints, and blind spots without handing away execution judgment.
Teaching Students to Stay in Charge
How Still in Charge builds AI citizenship before students enter the workforce, and why governance literacy matters for every future employer.
Recent and related
Where my work shows up.
A few recent places my work has turned up, if you would rather see it in the wild than take my word for it: talks, a podcast or two, and a guest piece.
The Unfair Advantage: AI for Analytical Science Startups
A 60-minute session for founders in analytical science, diagnostics, and instrumentation, with a 30-minute Q&A workshop.
Hello Henderson, Episode 18
A conversation on AI governance, accountability architecture, Still in Charge, and responsible AI adoption for businesses in the greater Las Vegas area.
Watch the recordingTech Alley Henderson: AI Governance, A Practical Health Check
My talk and live Q&A on using AI responsibly in practice: account tiers, agreements, regulated data, accountability, and the decisions that should not be left unnamed.
Watch the talkThe CoS Signal: The AI-Use Inventory
A guest issue for The CoS Signal on building the AI-use inventory before a regulator or your board asks for one.
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Creative work
Always Questioning.
Someone has to ask.
AI governance is a serious business. When I work on something more creative, you will find it at alwaysquestioning.com, the creators collaborative I founded in Las Vegas to give creative work a chance to be shown in a way that respects the creator and their work.
Books, comedy, fantasy, newsletters, and music from independent makers, each pointed straight to where it is sold. No feed, no ads, no cut taken. My own books and essays are among them.
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Personal notes
A little about me.
The tone here gets serious because the subject is. In person I am a lot less formal: a huge dog person, a music lover, and an avid researcher and student of anything interesting or curious, never satisfied with an easy answer.
