Leadership
The CEO's Guide to Ethical AI
Five reasons ethical AI makes CEOs better leaders — and where ALI_ETHICAL_CONSENT™ fits in the human layer most AI ethics conversations still miss.
Research · Public Essays & Commentary
Public Essays & Commentary.
Essays
Ideas that move the field forward.
Full-length essays by Alison Leigh on psychological risk, leadership, consent, governance, and the human consequences of conversational AI.
Clinical Psychology
What Makes Us Human
After 30 years with people at their most vulnerable, I saw a category of AI harm no existing framework addresses. ALI_ETHICAL_CONSENT™ was built for it.
Enterprise
What About Mary?
Enterprises track AI output. They do not track what the interaction is doing to the employee inside it. That gap is where ALI_ETHICAL_CONSENT™ operates.
AI Chatbot Harm
AI Needs a Clinical Conscience. A Licensed Clinical Psychotherapist Invented One.
A Licensed Clinical Psychotherapist's analysis of the Raine v. OpenAI case — and why conversational AI needs a protective structure when a person in crisis turns to it.
Enterprise
Tokenmaxxing Doesn’t Equal Success: The Psychological Risk Is the Missing Metric
Employees are navigating AI adoption in ways organizations rarely measure, creating a gap that can affect engagement, trust, and even legal exposure.
Humanity Driven AI
The Future of AI Is Human
I did a talk yesterday that emphasized this very concept. It was simply about remaining human in this era.
Ethical AI
Don’t Use Chatbots as Therapist
This is self explanatory: Advise your friends and family because there are real consequences being demonstrated daily. Hire an expert.
AI Psychological Safety
Psychological Risk in Conversational AI: A New Standard of Safety
The next standard of AI safety has to include the person inside the interaction. That is the missing category HDAI exists to define.
Frameworks
Selected concept papers.
Concept
What Makes Us Human — Psychological Attunement as a Design Principle
Introduces psychological attunement as the missing design primitive in consumer AI, and the harms that follow when systems simulate attunement without meeting its Clinical requirements.
Concept
The CEO’s Guide to Ethical AI
A leadership-level framework for enterprises deploying conversational AI — how to identify psychological risk before it becomes the case.
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Available on a limited basis for plaintiff and defense counsel in AI psychological harm litigation, and for enterprises seeking pre-deployment Clinical review.