AI, artificial intelligence, and online safety
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Karen Michael on AI's role in online safety and the human-centered governance needed alongside it.
QConsul LLC — an Oregon Benefit Company. Portland, Oregon, USA.
Insights
Insights — Karen Michael, Founder of QConsul LLC
Founder shares 30+ years of insights: allegories, essays, and field notes on cross-industry digital transformation, the Token Minimalism Framework, ethical AI, Oregon Benefit Company stewardship, and emerging compute.
Opinions are easy. Thirty years of cross-industry digital transformation — across people, process, and technology — produce something more valuable: the frameworks, methods, metrics, and lessons learned. Those lessons shaped Sprint-Governed AI — built to adapt as fast as the environments it's deployed in.
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Industry Voice
Podcasts and Videos
AI and content safety on social media
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Karen Michael on the rise of violent social media content, the limits of platform moderation, and what ethical AI governance can do about it.
Articles, videos, books, and credentials
Continuing education
ISO/IEC 42001 Lead Implementer training completed (PECB) — September 2026
Governance foundation: understanding ISO/IEC 42001:2023, AIMS concepts, the organization’s context, interested parties, scope, leadership commitment, accountability, and AI policy.
Risk and control design: identifying AI-related risks, defining risk-treatment actions, building the Statement of Applicability, selecting controls, and translating the standard into operational governance mechanisms.
Operationalization: establishing procedures and documented information; assigning ownership; building competence and awareness; communicating requirements; and embedding controls into AI lifecycle and operational processes.
Assurance and oversight: defining monitoring and measurement, conducting internal audits, holding management reviews, managing nonconformities and corrective actions, and creating a continual-improvement cycle.
Certification readiness: organizing evidence and documentation and preparing the organization for a third-party AIMS certification audit.
AGI-26 — 19th Annual Conference on Artificial General Intelligence — July 2026
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Attended the four-day AGI-26 conference in July 2026 on architectures, cognitive models, safety, and evaluation for artificial general intelligence. Attendance keeps QConsul's practice current on agent risk management, oversight-mode design, and governance guardrails.
EnterpriseClaw Certified — Enterprise AI Agent Leadership — June 2026
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EnterpriseClaw Certified — Enterprise AI Agent Leadership, issued by AIDB Training on June 11, 2026 (Advanced; 6-week global executive cohort), validating agent leadership, governance, architecture, security, fleet management, MCP integration, and strategy. Earned by building a working multi-agent system plus enterprise governance and adoption artifacts, independently verified on Credsverse.
Agentic AI, AI governance, and change leadership — 2025–2026
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45+ recent course completions across agentic AI architectures (OpenClaw, Anthropic Claude API, Google ADK), AI governance (NIST AI RMF, AI product security, ethics), and change leadership for AI-era organizations. Each is a verifiable LinkedIn badge.
Quantum computing & post-quantum cybersecurity — Keysight Quantum Horizons Bootcamp + LinkedIn Learning — 2025
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Keysight Learn Quantum Horizons Bootcamp, Parts 1 and 2 (Aug–Sep 2025) — qubits, gates, and quantum instrumentation — complemented by LinkedIn Learning coursework in cloud quantum computing essentials and quantum cryptography for post-quantum cybersecurity (Jul 2025). Literacy at the leading edge of compute alongside the AI-native work, not a service offering.
LinkedIn Posts
From ROI per Token™ to AI Governance, read how QConsul guides the AI-era conversation.
AI has a Dobby problem
I spent $1,389 in 2 weeks on an AI agent
Pro bono service to 501(c)(3) organizations
OpenAI says it cracked a decades-old math problem
Women in Big Data mentorship and leadership development
“Am I” — a documentary about AI consciousness
Is your competitive moat exiting your organization?
Sprint-Governed AI for cadence
Leadership development and communication
Governance, RACI, and knowing when to step away
Systems thinking and root cause in governed agent systems
Poisoned skills make shared skill libraries an attack surface
Synthetic data as a bias-mitigation control
Token Minimalism as an operating constraint
Community panel recording on AI and impact is live
The KPIs that make ROI per Token™ auditable
Does your business have a “soul”?
Why 'entity disambiguation' matters for governance
PLAN before DO lessons learned
The 'H' in HITL/HOTL stands for human
Free isn't "free" if it costs you tokens
AI Costs may increase popularity of 'Token Minimalism'
ROI per Token™ is about long-term ROI
How Benefit Company governance could prevent expensive AI bias
Why I built QConsul as a Benefit Company
Get your RACIs ready for AI
The AGI Allegories
Lambda says don't blame it on the AGI
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Book 1 of the Lambda Series — Karen Michael's near-future fable on AGI, accountability, and who gets blamed when the model misbehaves.
Tuff says blame it on the cyborg cat
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Book 2 of the Lambda Series — the cyborg cat takes the stand. Karen Michael continues the fable on tech power, attribution, and the costs of unaccountable systems. Read aloud to your book group and/or your AI agents for discussion on the each phrase's and image's multiple meanings and enjoy the exchange.
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