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I recently asked ChatGPT how a machine can appear to understand the nuances of human nature. The self-awareness of its response surprised me: “I have never experienced temptation, grief, pride, shame, love, or repentance. Human nature is something I can describe but not inhabit.”
That distinction underscores the critical difference between intelligence and wisdom. AI can draw from a vast accumulation of human knowledge, but wisdom begins with lived experience.
As leaders increasingly rely on AI in their organizations, it will only become more important to understand this difference.
I break this down in my latest essay on Substack:
johncknapp.substack.com/p/wh…
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Pete Hegseth is twisting scripture again. He's trying to use the words of Isaiah to wrap up power and war in sacred clothes.
Pete Hegseth needs to study his scripture. Because Isaiah challenged government that marginalizes the poor, the widows, the orphans. He challenges corruption.
Faith, when it is authentic, stands on the margins, stands with the weak, and recognizes that all of us are children of the living God.
I'm standing with Isaiah.
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In the wake of the tragic events of 9/11, Americans faced a difficult question: How much privacy were we willing to trade for security? For Congress, the answer included the Patriot Act and other measures permitting increased government surveillance of businesses and individuals.
On the morning of September 11, 2001, I convened more than 100 Atlanta business leaders at the Capital City Club for a breakfast forum of The Southern Institute for Business & Professional Ethics featuring Gary Clayton, founder of Privacy Council. He discussed intrusive technology and emerging privacy risks, but none of us saw the issues as matters of life and death.
As we emerged from the meeting and stood together watching the tragedy unfold on live television, we could not yet imagine how much the issues we had just discussed were about to change.
Today, a similar privacy-versus-security debate is underway over public surveillance by Flock cameras. The resistance suggests that many people are far less willing to accept that trade-off.
The technology has changed dramatically in 25 years. The underlying ethical question has not: How much privacy should we surrender in the name of security?
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How healthy is your non-profit board? Effective governance requires engaged board members who ask difficult questions and hold leaders accountable. But it also requires restraint and wisdom to know when governing becomes managing and oversight becomes overreach.
Over the last few decades, I have witnessed poor board performance from several perspectives: as a board member for higher education institutions, professional associations, and social service organizations; as a CEO accountable to boards; and as a consultant providing governance training to dozens of non-profit and governmental boards.
In this essay, I discuss five of the most common dysfunctions of non-profit boards and provide a list of questions to assess the health of any boards where you serve.
johncknapp.substack.com/p/fi…
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How healthy is your non-profit board? Effective governance requires engaged board members who ask difficult questions and hold leaders accountable. But it also requires restraint and wisdom to know when governing becomes managing and oversight becomes overreach.
Over the last few decades, I have witnessed poor board performance from several perspectives: as a board member for higher education institutions, professional associations, and social service organizations; as a CEO accountable to boards; and as a consultant providing governance training to dozens of non-profit and governmental boards.
In this essay, I discuss five of the most common dysfunctions of non-profit boards and provide a list of questions to assess the health of any boards where you serve.
johncknapp.substack.com/p/fi…
🤖 Made with AI
In the wake of the tragic events of 9/11, Americans faced a difficult question: How much privacy were we willing to trade for security? For Congress, the answer included the Patriot Act and other measures permitting increased government surveillance of businesses and individuals.
On the morning of September 11, 2001, I convened more than 100 Atlanta business leaders at the Capital City Club for a breakfast forum of The Southern Institute for Business & Professional Ethics featuring Gary Clayton, founder of Privacy Council. He discussed intrusive technology and emerging privacy risks, but none of us saw the issues as matters of life and death.
As we emerged from the meeting and stood together watching the tragedy unfold on live television, we could not yet imagine how much the issues we had just discussed were about to change.
Today, a similar privacy-versus-security debate is underway over public surveillance by Flock cameras. The resistance suggests that many people are far less willing to accept that trade-off.
The technology has changed dramatically in 25 years. The underlying ethical question has not: How much privacy should we surrender in the name of security?
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It is a broken Christianity that desperately looks for Jesus returning in the clouds but refuses to recognize him in the faces of the poor, the sick, the homeless, the immigrant, the bombed, the starving, the marginalized, and the oppressed.
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This isn’t what revival looks like. Revival is humble repentance, truth in love, sacrificial Gospel living. What we see in this photo is frivolous, shallow power lust under the guise of Christianity. And more Christians need to start recognizing that and calling it out.
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The world does not need an artificial intelligence that diminishes humanity; rather, it needs human intelligence enlightened by wisdom, political authority guided by conscience and technological innovation directed by charity. Only then will artificial intelligence become not a rival to humanity but a servant of the common good.
Last week an online AI-detection tool confidently informed me that one of my recent social media posts was almost certainly written by artificial intelligence. There was only one problem: I had written every word of it myself.
The experience was mildly amusing, but it pointed to a larger leadership challenge. In an age when AI can write almost anything, people increasingly wonder whether the words they read actually reflect the mind of the person who claims to have written them.
AI can be invaluable as a time-saving research assistant, editor, and sounding board. But there is an important difference between aiding thinking and replacing it, especially when others are depending on our judgment.
My article with advice to leaders is linked in the first reply below.
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America's founders understood that the success of a self-governing republic depends greatly on educating citizens to participate responsibly. This was once a high priority for schools, but it has been eclipsed by pressures to provide more career preparation.
(A link to my brief essay on this is posted in the first reply below.)
America's founders understood that the success of a self-governing republic depends greatly on educating citizens to participate responsibly. This was once a high priority for schools, but it has been eclipsed by pressures to provide more career preparation.
(A link to my brief essay on this is posted in the first reply below.)
Every American, especially Republicans, should listen to this excerpt from Ronald Reagan’s last speech as president: “If we ever closed the door to new Americans, our leadership in the world would soon be lost.”
youtu.be/J5upAEZOchM