THE MANHATTAN PROJECT

20 YEARS, DOZENS OF TOP EXPERTS, 1000s OF STUDENTS/VOLUNTEERS

One simple, holistic, multi-industry solution to fix AI, Disinformation, Privacy, and Free Speech
at the same time. Because if you don't, your "solution" is only making things worse.

EVERYONE IS DOING AI ETHICS EXACTLY BACKWARDS

OUR PROGRAMMERS, POLITICIANS, EDUCATORS, AND ADVOCATES CAN'T FIX THIS MESS IN TME.

WHOEVER DOES IT RIGHT FIRST WINS THE 21ST CENTURY

(AND YES, THESE IDIOTS FORGOT TO PLUG REALITY'S 2,000 YEAR OLD GROUND WIRE IN.)

Because AI -- and disinformation, censorship, and surveillance -- affects everyone.

And in a democracy, we all have the right to understand what the hell is happening and have a vote in how we fix it.

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Thank you to our partners, clients, and allies

for putting differences aside and coming together
to rebuild a just, free, and sane digital world for everyone

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A 20 YEARS PROVEN and NON PARTISAN SOLUTION + A STORY AMERICA NEEDS TO HEAR

TO FIX THIS CRISIS IN TIME
AND WIN THE 21ST CENTURY

Digital Ethics is a Complex Ecosystem

of code, culture, and Constitutional law. Whoever fixes it first (correctly) wins the 21st century and re-balances AI and humanity.

The "experts" who got us into this mess are now trying to fix it, but they're doing it backwards. And wrong.


The clock is ticking. Our proven, peer-reviewed, and 2,000 year old system works. And 20 years ago, there would have been 100 of us saying the same thing.

AI and Algorithms

Disinformation and Political Division

Privacy and Surveillance

Free Speech vs. Hate Speech

ANY VIABLE MANHATTAN PROJECT HAS TO HAVE/DO/BE SIX VERY HARD THINGS

One simple, holistic method for AI, disinformation, privacy, and free speech

Bipartisan, non-ideological, Constitutional, innovation-friendly, acceptable across religions and cultures.

Deprogram postmodernism without destroying our our knowledge databases.

Teachable to anyone

Usable across any industry

Immediately scalable and able to network/ re-connect citizens, governments, schools, and companies

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DIRECTOR/ASSOC. PROF
SCHOOL OF ENGLISH, COMMUNICATONS, AND DIGITAL MEDIA

north central university, 2018-23


ASSISTANT PROFESSOR

DIVISION OF ENGLISH AND DIGITAL MEDIA ARTS

hamline university, 2018-23

I have an interdisciplinary phd (and 20 years of college leadership exp.) in putting out the dumpster fire collision between

technology, Constitutional law, American democracy, postmodernism, and post-digital higher education.

I was the speechwriter for Time's University President of the Year during his billion-dollar fundraising campaign

and, as a grad student, co-built the first nationally scalable multi-campus disinformation fighting platform (w/ a Fortune 500) in 2007.

My First Amendment cred is unimpeachable: I started a free speech art collective at the wokest school in America

and then left "liberal higher ed" and became an "echo chamber diversity hire"
at a Bible College to teach kids on the other side of reality.

Brass tacks: I could have been a University Prez (and am asked to run for office). Instead, I've launched three start-ups to prove my students could fix higher education and post-digital America.

And the last crew almost pulled it off, except some jerk tried to shoot me / all hell broke loose.

One simple and holistic method

AI and AlGORITHMS / DISINFORMATION / PRIVACY / FREE SPEECH vs. HATE SPEECH

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PRIMEAUX AWARD BEST PAPER (RUNNER UP)

“Using the Lens of Narrative Theory
to Rethink Digital Ethics
.” 

International Vincentian Business Ethics Conference.
 
With Marci Exted and Thomas Freeman. 

October 2022.

INVITED TALKS / CONFERENCES

INVITED ACADEMIC TALKS / AWARD-WINNING PRESENTATIONS / COMPETITIVE CONFERENCS


Note: All of Dr. M's AI frameworks also handle free speech, privacy, and disinformation. These are only key works. See full CV here.

*WINNER (RUNNER UP)
PRIMEAUX AWARD FOR BEST PAPER*
“Using the Lens of Narrative Theory
to Rethink Digital Ethics
.” 
International Vincentian Business Ethics Conference. 
With Marci Exted and Thomas Freeman.
October 2022.  


“Privacy 3.0: Using Narrative Theory
to Reframe Health Data Sanctity.” 
Inaugural Transatlantic Dialogue on Humanity and AI Regulation.
Hosted by HEC Paris. 
Paris, France.  May 2022.


“Privacy 3.0: Using Narrative Theory to Forgive, Forget, and Re-Program Digital Dignity.” 
Data, Law, and AI Ethics Research Colloquium.
Organizers: Indiana University, Virginia Tech, and University of Pennsylvania. 
With Thomas Freeman. 
Online.  April 2022. 


“Algorithmic Unreliability: Narrative Theory, Digital Ethics, and The Constitutionality of Employment AI.” 
Midwest Academy of Legal Studies in Business.
With Thomas Freeman and Marci Exted. 
Chicago, IL and Online:  March 2022.


“Redefining Digital Literary:
Algorithms and You.” 
SXSW EDU
With Thomas Freeman, Ayin Morales-Monge, and Shea Sullivan. 
March 2022.

“Privacy 3.0: Forgiveness
and Student Data After
Mahoney.”
International Vincentian Business Ethics Conference

With Thomas Freeman, Simon Truatman, and Amanda Aherns. 
Chicago: DePaul University.  October 2021.


“Algorithmic Bias: How Cross-Functional Networks Can Fight Digitized Discrimination.”
Creighton University. 
Heider Business Symposium.
With Thomas Freeman, Elizabeth Otto, Ayin Monge, and Julius Hernandez.
Omaha, NE.  October 2021. 


“Reckoning With Robots; The Constitutional Implications of Using Algorithms to Make
Human Decisions.” 
Midwest Association of Legal Studies in Business/Midwest Business Administration Association Annual Conference
With Thomas Freeman.  Chicago: March 2021.

“Digital Ethics: What’s Next?” 
OSTROM Workshop

Indiana University School of Business. Bloomington, IN.  With Julius Hernandez and Shea Sullivan.
February 2021.

“A Taxonomy of Algorithmic Unreliability: Using Facial Recognition to Map Constitutional Issues.” Data, Law, and AI Ethics Research Colloquium
Indiana University and Virginia Tech University. Online (COVID): May 2020


“What Would Jesus Program?” 
Rhetoric Society of America.
Portland, OR. 
May 2020.  (COVID).


“Racist Robots?  A Visual Primer on Understanding Algorithmic Bias.”  
Midwest Associate of Legal Studies in Business/Midwest Business Administration Association Annual Conference.
With Thomas Freeman, Ayin Monge-Morales, and Moises Morales.
March 2020.



“Rhetoric Versus the Robots II: The Ethics of Algorithmic Unreliability.” 
International Society for the Study of Narrative. 
With Weston Cregut and Rebekah Winkel. 
New Orleans, LA.  March 2020. 


“Rhetoric Versus the Robots: Mapping the Legal and Ethical Dimensions of Algorithmic Discrimination.”  
Consortium for the Study of Religion, Ethics and Society at Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business. 
Bloomington, IN.  November 2019.


“Privacy 3.0: Using Narrative Theory to Navigate Legal, Corporate, and Community Debates on Algorithmic Ethics.”
Data, Law, and AI Ethics Research Colloquium
. Washington and Lee School of Law
With Thomas Freeman. 
Lexington, VA.  April 2019.


“Why Digital Rights Is The New Civil Rights Movement.” 
North Carolina A & T State University. 
Greensboro, NC: May 2018.


"Social Media Privacy Big Data Reasoning.” 
Hamline University. 
Saint Paul, MN.  April 2017.

“Campaign Narrative, The End: A New
Story for the Narrative Model of
Rhetorical Agency,”
Rhetoric Society of America.
San Antonio, TX: May 2014. 


“The New New Journalism: The Post-Postmodern Aesthetics of Narrative As Rhetoric.”
International Society for the Study of Narrative.
Boston, MA: March 2014.


Rogue Publics.
Competitive Workshop.
Rhetoric Society of America Summer Institute
.
Lawrence, KS: June 2013.


21st Century Presidential Rhetoric.
Competitive Workshop.
Rhetoric Society of America Summer Institute.
Lawrence, KS: June 2013.


“Audience 3.0: A New Rhetorical Ethics (and Aesthetics) for a Post-Remix Era.”
Rhetoric Society of America
Philadelphia, PA: May 2012.


“The Gentle Art of Accepting Enemies: New Media and the Rhetorical Aesthetics of Audience Exclusion.”
International Society for the Study of Narrative.
St. Louis, MO: April 2011.


“Playing Out Remix,”
Conference on College Composition and Communication.
Louisville, KY: March 2010.


“I’m Not There Anymore: The Return of Identity in the Post-Remix Age.”
Thomas R. Watson Conference on Rhetoric and Composition
.
Louisville, KY: October 2008.


Ethos in a Remediated Age: Context, Character, and Community.”
Rhetoric Society of America.
Seattle, WA: May 2008.

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EARLY/INFLUENTIAL SCHOLARSHIP and SOLUTIONS

“Not Necessarily Not the News: Remediation, Gatekeeping, and The Daily Show.”

Journal of American Culture

28.4 (Dec 2005): 415-430.

PUBLICATIONS
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REPORTED IN

The privacy crisis is scaring the hell out of IDH students
on both sides of the aisle.

Click here for the IDH's
privacy victories and solutions.

INVITED TALKS / CONFERENCES

INVITED ACADEMIC TALKS / AWARD-WINNING PRESENTATIONS / COMPETITIVE CONFERENCS


Note: All of Dr. M's AI frameworks also handle free speech, privacy, and disinformation. These are only key works. See full CV here.

*WINNER (RUNNER UP)
PRIMEAUX AWARD FOR BEST PAPER*
“Using the Lens of Narrative Theory
to Rethink Digital Ethics
.” 
International Vincentian Business Ethics Conference. 
With Marci Exted and Thomas Freeman.
October 2022.  


“Privacy 3.0: Using Narrative Theory
to Reframe Health Data Sanctity.” 
Inaugural Transatlantic Dialogue on Humanity and AI Regulation.
Hosted by HEC Paris. 
Paris, France.  May 2022.


“Privacy 3.0: Using Narrative Theory to Forgive, Forget, and Re-Program Digital Dignity.” 
Data, Law, and AI Ethics Research Colloquium.
Organizers: Indiana University, Virginia Tech, and University of Pennsylvania. 
With Thomas Freeman. 
Online.  April 2022. 


“Algorithmic Unreliability: Narrative Theory, Digital Ethics, and The Constitutionality of Employment AI.” 
Midwest Academy of Legal Studies in Business.
With Thomas Freeman and Marci Exted. 
Chicago, IL and Online:  March 2022.


“Redefining Digital Literary:
Algorithms and You.” 
SXSW EDU
With Thomas Freeman, Ayin Morales-Monge, and Shea Sullivan. 
March 2022.

“Privacy 3.0: Forgiveness
and Student Data After
Mahoney.”
International Vincentian Business Ethics Conference

With Thomas Freeman, Simon Truatman, and Amanda Aherns. 
Chicago: DePaul University.  October 2021.


“Algorithmic Bias: How Cross-Functional Networks Can Fight Digitized Discrimination.”
Creighton University. 
Heider Business Symposium.
With Thomas Freeman, Elizabeth Otto, Ayin Monge, and Julius Hernandez.
Omaha, NE.  October 2021. 


“Reckoning With Robots; The Constitutional Implications of Using Algorithms to Make
Human Decisions.” 
Midwest Association of Legal Studies in Business/Midwest Business Administration Association Annual Conference
With Thomas Freeman.  Chicago: March 2021.

“Digital Ethics: What’s Next?” 
OSTROM Workshop

Indiana University School of Business. Bloomington, IN.  With Julius Hernandez and Shea Sullivan.
February 2021.

“A Taxonomy of Algorithmic Unreliability: Using Facial Recognition to Map Constitutional Issues.” Data, Law, and AI Ethics Research Colloquium
Indiana University and Virginia Tech University. Online (COVID): May 2020


“What Would Jesus Program?” 
Rhetoric Society of America.
Portland, OR. 
May 2020.  (COVID).


“Racist Robots?  A Visual Primer on Understanding Algorithmic Bias.”  
Midwest Associate of Legal Studies in Business/Midwest Business Administration Association Annual Conference.
With Thomas Freeman, Ayin Monge-Morales, and Moises Morales.
March 2020.



“Rhetoric Versus the Robots II: The Ethics of Algorithmic Unreliability.” 
International Society for the Study of Narrative. 
With Weston Cregut and Rebekah Winkel. 
New Orleans, LA.  March 2020. 


“Rhetoric Versus the Robots: Mapping the Legal and Ethical Dimensions of Algorithmic Discrimination.”  
Consortium for the Study of Religion, Ethics and Society at Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business. 
Bloomington, IN.  November 2019.


“Privacy 3.0: Using Narrative Theory to Navigate Legal, Corporate, and Community Debates on Algorithmic Ethics.”
Data, Law, and AI Ethics Research Colloquium
. Washington and Lee School of Law
With Thomas Freeman. 
Lexington, VA.  April 2019.


“Why Digital Rights Is The New Civil Rights Movement.” 
North Carolina A & T State University. 
Greensboro, NC: May 2018.


"Social Media Privacy Big Data Reasoning.” 
Hamline University. 
Saint Paul, MN.  April 2017.

“Campaign Narrative, The End: A New
Story for the Narrative Model of
Rhetorical Agency,”
Rhetoric Society of America.
San Antonio, TX: May 2014. 


“The New New Journalism: The Post-Postmodern Aesthetics of Narrative As Rhetoric.”
International Society for the Study of Narrative.
Boston, MA: March 2014.


Rogue Publics.
Competitive Workshop.
Rhetoric Society of America Summer Institute
.
Lawrence, KS: June 2013.


21st Century Presidential Rhetoric.
Competitive Workshop.
Rhetoric Society of America Summer Institute.
Lawrence, KS: June 2013.


“Audience 3.0: A New Rhetorical Ethics (and Aesthetics) for a Post-Remix Era.”
Rhetoric Society of America
Philadelphia, PA: May 2012.


“The Gentle Art of Accepting Enemies: New Media and the Rhetorical Aesthetics of Audience Exclusion.”
International Society for the Study of Narrative.
St. Louis, MO: April 2011.


“Playing Out Remix,”
Conference on College Composition and Communication.
Louisville, KY: March 2010.


“I’m Not There Anymore: The Return of Identity in the Post-Remix Age.”
Thomas R. Watson Conference on Rhetoric and Composition
.
Louisville, KY: October 2008.


Ethos in a Remediated Age: Context, Character, and Community.”
Rhetoric Society of America.
Seattle, WA: May 2008.

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WINNER: BEST PAPER AWARD

“Let Them All Eat Cake: Rhetorically Mapping Religious Freedom, LGBTQIA Discrimination, and The First Amendment After Janus and Masterpiece.” 

Midwest Business Administrative Association/Midwest Academy of Legal Studies in Business Conference. 
With Tom Freeman and Daniel Schneider.
Chicago, IL.  March 2020.

PUBLICATIONS

“Triangulating Hate Speech and Free Speech in Algorithmic Environments.” 
Indiana University. 
Bloomington, IN: April 2022.  (Online.)


*WINNER: BEST PAPER AWARD*
“Make Them Bake Cake?  In the Wake of Masterpiece Cakeshop, Which Religious Activities Are Protected Expression Under the First Amendment and Protected from Discrimination Laws?”
 
Midwest Business Administrative Association/Midwest Academy of Legal Studies in Business Joint Conference. 
With Tom Freeman and Daniel Schneider.
Chicago, IL.  March 2020. 

“The Right to Speak, Bake, or Film…or Not…Which Activities are Protected Expression Under the First Amendment?”
Huber Hurst Research Seminar
in Business Law and Ethics
.
With Thomas Freeman.
Gainsville, FL.  January 2020. 


“What Would Jesus Program?”
Rhetoric Society of America
Portland, OR. 
May 2020.  (COVID).


“Shouting Fire: Originalism and Antonin Scalia.”

Jiggery-Pokery and Applesauce? The Impact and Legacy of Justice Antonin Scalia
,
Hamline University Center for Justice and Law.
Saint Paul, MN: February 2016.


“Campaign Narrative, The End: A New Story for the Narrative Model of Rhetorical Agency,”
Rhetoric Society of America.
San Antonio, TX: May 2014. 


“The New New Journalism: The Post-Postmodern Aesthetics of Narrative As Rhetoric.”
International Society for the Study of Narrative. Boston, MA:March 2014.


Rogue Publics.
Competitive Workshop.
Rhetoric Society of America Summer Institute.
Lawrence, KS: June 2013.


21st Century Presidential Rhetoric.
Competitive Workshop.
Rhetoric Society of America Summer Institute.
Lawrence, KS: June 2013.


“Audience 3.0: A New Rhetorical Ethics (and Aesthetics) for a Post-Remix Era.”

Rhetoric Society of America
Philadelphia, PA: May 2012.


“The Gentle Art of Accepting Enemies:
New Media and the Rhetorical Aesthetics of Audience Exclusion.”

International Society for the Study of Narrative.
St. Louis, MO: April 2011.


“Shouting ‘Fire’ in the Writing Classroom: Rhetoric, Law, and Composition.”

Conference on College Composition and Communication.
New York, NY: March 2007.


“The Gentle Art of Accepting Enemies: New Media and the Rhetorical Aesthetics of Audience Exclusion.”

International Society for the Study of Narrative
.
St. Louis, MO: April 2011.


“Shouting ‘Fire’ in the Writing Classroom: Rhetoric, Law, and Composition.”

Conference on College Composition and Communication.
New York, NY: March 2007.


“‘Alive and well and living in Washington’: Narrativity, Casebook Logic, and Legal Pedagogy.”
International Society for the Study of Narrative.
Washington, D.C.: March 2007. 



“Finding Authorization to ‘lance the boil’: Context, Content, and Free Speech Zones.”
Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities.
Syracuse, NY: March 2006.

Bipartisan, Non-Ideological, Constitutional, Compatible With All Religions

Because (A) GET REAL
and (B) THE CONSTITUTION.

The 2,000 year old ground wire you already paid to update in the 2000s and the nerds who got us into this mess never bothered to learn.

VitalBoost: A Daily Essential Nutrition supplement fostering physical and mental health. A scientifically formulated mix of vitamins, minerals, probiotics, and nutrients from whole foods, enhancing cognition and overall well-being

see dr m.'s academic cv here

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ACLU MN
ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE
CODED BIAS (NETFLIX)
ASEMBLIES OF GOD
LITTLE EARTH NATIVE HUD
COMMUNITY

BYTES MEDIA / RECLAIM THE BLOCK / SAFETY NOT SURVEILLANCE / ACLU NE / MN SECOND CHANCE COALITION / CIVIC NEBRASKA / URBAN EDUCATORS / MN HUMAN RIGHTS CENTER / MN EQUAL JUSTICE CENTER / DIGITAL ARCHIVE OF LITERACY NARRATIVES

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NORTH CENTRAL UNIVERSITY CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY
INDIANA UNIVERSITY
OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY

MCGRAW-HILL
HAMLINE UNIVERSITY / UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - LA CROSSE / HAIFA UNIVERSITY

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AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION
IOWA BAR ASSOCIATION
NEBRASKA BAR ASSOCIATION

SEN. SCOTT LUCERO (R-MN) / COUNCILMAN SIMON TRAUTMANN (D-RICHFIELD) / COUNCILWOMAN LATRISHA VETAW (D-MINNEAPOLIS) / COUNCILWOMAN NANCY YANG (D-ST. PAUL) / COUNCILMAN STEVE FLETCHER (D-MINNEAPOLIS) / SEN. PEGGY SCOTT (R-MN) / COUNCILMAN WARSAME (D -MINNEAPOLIS) / SEN. SCOTT JENSEN (R-MN)

Teachable To Anyone and Useable Across All Industries and Disciplines

Which is the upside of using a method that (a) all the academic disciplines already shook hands on in the early 2000s and (b) is already seen as neutral by every industry: Narrative Theory.

Because AI -- and disinformation, censorship, and surveillance -- affects everyone.

And in a democracy, we all have the right to understand what the hell is happening and have a vote in how we fix it.

VitalBoost: A Daily Essential Nutrition supplement fostering physical and mental health. A scientifically formulated mix of vitamins, minerals, probiotics, and nutrients from whole foods, enhancing cognition and overall well-being

SEE ALL EDUCATION VICTORIES HERE

Interactive, experiential,
and non-ideological AI ethics
and post-digital civics education.

CURRICULUM:
K-12 / COLLEGE / GRAD / LAW

Training students how to be AI ethics and policy leaders
in the race to win the 21st century
(and fight for post-digital humanity).

PROFESSIONAL WORKSHOPS
SCHOOLS / POLICYMAKERS / ADVOCATES /
COMPANIES / STUDENTS

Training any/all professionals or citizen groups
how to be AI ethics and policy leaders.

PLUG and PLAY PLATFORMS

CONNECTING DIVERSE VOICES ACROSS CAMPUSES
AND THE DIGITAL DIVIDE


Connecting classrooms and colleges
across the political and cultural divide.

Scalable

THESE BATMOBILES JUST NEED GAS, DRIVERS, AND A GARAGE. AND THIS AIN'T OUR FIRST RODEO.

AI ISN'T FUNNY by Aaron McKain

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ACLU MN
ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE
CODED BIAS (NETFLIX)
ASEMBLIES OF GOD
LITTLE EARTH NATIVE HUD
COMMUNITY

BYTES MEDIA / RECLAIM THE BLOCK / SAFETY NOT SURVEILLANCE / ACLU NE / MN SECOND CHANCE COALITION / CIVIC NEBRASKA / URBAN EDUCATORS / MN HUMAN RIGHTS CENTER / MN EQUAL JUSTICE CENTER / DIGITAL ARCHIVE OF LITERACY NARRATIVES

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NORTH CENTRAL UNIVERSITY CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY
INDIANA UNIVERSITY
OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY

MCGRAW-HILL
HAMLINE UNIVERSITY / UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - LA CROSSE / HAIFA UNIVERSITY

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AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION
IOWA BAR ASSOCIATION
NEBRASKA BAR ASSOCIATION

SEN. SCOTT LUCERO (R-MN) / COUNCILMAN SIMON TRAUTMANN (D-RICHFIELD) / COUNCILWOMAN LATRISHA VETAW (D-MINNEAPOLIS) / COUNCILWOMAN NANCY YANG (D-ST. PAUL) / COUNCILMAN STEVE FLETCHER (D-MINNEAPOLIS) / SEN. PEGGY SCOTT (R-MN) / COUNCILMAN WARSAME (D -MINNEAPOLIS) / SEN. SCOTT JENSEN (R-MN)

ABLE TO RECONNECT DIVIDED CITIZENS

LISTEN TO VETERANS/SURVIVORS OF THE POST-DIGITAL COLLAPSE OF OUR CITY AND COLLEGES

AND LIVING PROOF THAT AMERICA CAN STILL FIX IT.