Open Harbor Consulting & Artificial Intelligence

Intentional and ethical use, with AI as a tool, never the source of the vision.

Artificial intelligence is new, powerful, and changing quickly. The technology will continue to evolve, and my understanding of it will evolve too. This page reflects where Open Harbor Consulting stands today.

I believe AI can be useful without becoming the author of the work.

Professional organizations are beginning to establish thoughtful guidance for its use. The American Counseling Association emphasizes that AI should support rather than replace human expertise and that responsibility for decisions must remain with the professional. Guidance for management consultants similarly emphasizes transparency, confidentiality, careful review, and the preservation of independent human judgment.

Those principles matter to me.

I have also been influenced by people who approach AI through the lens of creativity and human agency. Producer Rick Rubin has described AI as another tool available to the artist while emphasizing that creativity still depends upon a point of view. Psychologist Martin Seligman has written and spoken about AI's potential to expand human agency rather than diminish it. Their perspectives reflect the possibility I find most interesting: technology helping people bring their ideas into the world without becoming a substitute for the person behind those ideas.

At Open Harbor, AI may help organize information, execute administrative tasks, assemble files, produce graphics, explore possible approaches, or translate a clearly defined vision into something tangible. But the direction begins with me.

AI does not decide what Open Harbor believes. It does not determine which stories should be told, what an audience needs, what advice should be given, or what deserves to be made. It does not replace professional judgment, lived experience, ethical responsibility, curiosity, or care.

Every final product represents my vision, decisions, standards, and accountability. AI may contribute to the making. It does not originate the vision.

Privacy, judgment, and accountability

Open Harbor does not place confidential, clinical, or personally identifying client information into general-purpose AI systems without explicit authorization and appropriate safeguards.

AI-assisted work is reviewed rather than accepted at face value. Potential errors, bias, context, confidentiality, and the limits of the technology remain part of that review. AI does not make clinical judgments, organizational decisions, or recommendations on behalf of Open Harbor.

The responsibility remains mine.

A living position

My position will likely continue to develop. I reserve the right to change it as the technology changes and as I learn more. I hope all of us remain willing to revise our opinions when experience, evidence, and reflection lead us toward choices that better serve our work, our character, and the people who trust us.

For now, the Open Harbor position is simple:

Use AI ethically and intentionally. Keep the work human-led. Never outsource the vision, judgment, or responsibility.

Sources and influences