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AI Could Open the Door to Handle our Biggest Backlog

Charity Livingston
January 5, 2026
8:06 am
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We need character, ethics, wisdom, grit. These things are aided and refined by hard times, but then they are passed to the next generation through the humanities. The humanities have lagged our technological progress for a century or more. What if we used AI for one purpose only: to build the character of our kids? […]

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AI Strategy Not Working?

Charity Livingston
May 27, 2026
4:28 pm
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Does your "AI strategy" feeling like throwing spaghetti at the wall and seeing what will stick? Skip the hype and try these 3 questions instead. Here's what I mean: Before your team starts using AI in daily work, you don’t need a 40-page policy. You need a simple decision filter. Try asking your staff to […]

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Not Just for Catholics: A Letter from the Pope on Responsible AI

Charity Livingston
May 27, 2026
4:47 pm
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The Pope’s new letter on AI moved us and totally aligned with the tools and conversations we have at Abundance Solutions about responsible AI. Here's why. If you haven't already seen it, Pope Leo XIV recently released Magnifica Humanitas, an encyclical on safeguarding the human person in the age of artificial intelligence. (Link in comments.) […]

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Ethical AI Reskilling Strategy: What Leaders Can Learn from IKEA

Charity Livingston
May 27, 2026
5:21 pm
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What if the best ethical AI reskilling strategy is not about replacing people? What if it is about what happens when a company uses AI to remove repetitive work — and then invests in the humans who were doing it? That is what makes the IKEA story so interesting (Ingka Group). IKEA’s AI chatbot, Billie, reportedly […]

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AI is Cheap Right Now. Here’s Why (and How to Capitalize on It)

Charity Livingston
June 1, 2026
10:16 pm
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Your AI is free or really cheap, right? For the price of a monthly subscription, a small business owner can access tools that summarize documents, draft emails, analyze spreadsheets, generate marketing ideas, write code, create images, and on and on. That can make AI feel much cheaper than an employee. Sorry, it's not. But behind […]

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AI Hallucinations: Why They Happen and How to Fact-Check It

Charity Livingston
September 9, 2026
4:10 pm
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Your AI Is Lying to You — Here’s Why So you think you outsmarted AI hallucinations. Maybe you built a custom model. Maybe you wrote the world’s best prompt. Maybe you created a detailed system that tells your AI to cite sources, double-check facts, and never make anything up. Sorry. Not true. AI will hallucinate, […]

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Deterministic vs Probabilistic Computing: When AI Helps

Charity Livingston
September 14, 2026
1:46 pm
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From Number Munchers to Generative AI: What the Oregon Trail Generation Learned About Computers There was something wonderfully simple about early classroom computers: those three or four units tucked into school libraries, computer labs, or gifted education classrooms. We played Number Munchers or grammar games. Basked in the light of green or amber letters glowing […]

Political Memes and Social Media: Why Sharing Them Divides Us

Charity Livingston
September 14, 2026
1:53 pm
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This post is years in the making. I've been waiting for the perfect example, and on the eve of releasing my book, it finally appeared. But let me explain. In one sense, I can't get away from social media because I love it. On the spectrum of "staying in touch," I'm 95th percentile, at least. […]

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Your AI Sounds Certain. That Doesn’t Mean It Knows.

Charity Livingston
September 16, 2026
5:09 pm
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Does AI "think"? That's the sort of topic that gets people debating for hours about the nature of "thinking" and all of that. But here's another, possibly more important thing to understand: something can sound certain, that doesn't mean it knows. What ever happened to, "Don't believe everything you read"? Throughout our schooling we were […]

Blocking Legislation on AI

Charity Livingston
September 16, 2026
5:14 pm
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These "regulations" that big AI and big politicians are trying to stop… Oh man… Where do I start? I'll start with the first crazy thing I ever heard from Sam Altman: "It's not fair that we should have to worry about copyright violations while trying to develop this stuff." Holy entitlement, Batman! Yes, Sam, you […]