AI with Integrity: Designing Your Ethical AI Practice

A panel and facilitated workshop I convened at the University of Denver, built around one guiding question: how do I stay in alignment with what I value as AI reshapes my work, my profession, and the choices in front of me? Three leaders opened the conversation. Jayme Eichner of AWS on who is thriving in the transition and who it is happening to. Melissa Reeve on the durable capabilities that outlast any AI model, drawing on the World Economic Forum's projection of 170 million new jobs and 92 million displaced. Trista Caldwell on staying in alignment with your values when the work itself is changing fast.

Then the room did the work. I designed an experiential arc, co-facilitated with Thom Gulino of Daniels College of Business, that moved people from listening to authoring. Each person named one professional value they hold regardless of pressure or convenience, placed it in the center of the table, and looked for the pattern underneath everyone's words. Then they sat with the harder questions: how would you know you are living in alignment, and how would you know you are not? People wrote what they wanted the room to hear and placed it on a shared wall. By the end, that wall was a collective picture of what professional judgment in the AI age actually looks like, built from their own values and their honesty.