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Dr. Aaron McKain

HIRE US TO JUST TEACH YOU THIS SHIT

HIRE US TO JUST TEACH YOU THIS SHIT

 We Can Make Anyone an AI Ethics Expert. Comedians/Writers Are No Different.

We get it: AI ethics, free speech, disinformation, and cancel culture are a complicated mess.

You don’t want to screw up your brand or put your foot in your mouth. 

We have a simple meta-method to get your writers, researchers, and production team on the same page -- re: tech, democracy, and the 1st Amendment -- fast.

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This is our day job:

You won’t find anyone else who can explain the complexities of AI to your team using comedians as examples.

This doesn't have to be complicated. Zoom calls, quick consults, actual trainings, whatever. If AI Isn't Funny was scaled, this is the kind of shit it could offer to any industry (to raise $$) and you all for cheap/free depending on demand.

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WE ALL NEED HELP SOMETIMES. And the post-digital world got super complicated.

But the stakes are way too high for this to be your first rodeo.

THANK YOU TO MY CLIENTS, PARTNERS, AND ALLIES

AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION
IOWA BAR ASSOCIATION
NEBRASKA BAR ASSOCIATION
MN LEGAL RIGHTS CENTER


SXSW EDU
INDIANA UNIVERSITY
CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY
UNIV OF WISCONSIN-LA CROSSE


LITTLE EARTH NATIVE HUD COMMUNITY
MN DEPT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
ACLU MINNESOTA
SAFETY NOT SURVEILLANCE COALITION
RECLAIM THE BLOCK
GUNS DOWN, LOVE UP
LITTLE EARTH NATIVE YOUTH ARTS CENTER
PROTECT MINNESOTA
NORTH SUBURBAN CENTER FOR THE ARTS
URBAN EDUCATORS

TECHNOLOGY POLICY,
LAW, ETHICS, and CULTURE

ai ethics | disinformation | privacy


20 years of proven solutions, taught across industries, Bar Associations, the public, and K-CEO.

Every industry -- a school, a company, a state, comedians, musicians, etc. -- has niche post-AI legal, ethics, and educational needs.

I could explain this stuff to anyone. I teach kids how to explain it to anyone. It's not rocket science.


DISINFORMATION and POLITICAL DIVISION

From the guy who co-built the first multi-campus disinformation fighting system (w/ a Fortune 500 in 2007), became a disinformation 'diversity hire' at a Bible college to try to stop a post-digital civil war, and ended up in the middle of one with a bunch of scrappy Jesus kids dodging bullets while building emergency info/aid networks in Minneapolis when things went ham.

Strategies, hacks, frameworks, and pep talks to fight against disinformation; start to rebuild our shared reality; and heal our communities, classrooms, companies, and country.


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    From the guy who co-built the first multi-campus disinformation fighting system (w/ a Fortune 500 in 2007), became a disinformation 'diversity hire' at a Bible college to try to stop a post-digital civil war, and ended up in the middle of one with a bunch of scrappy Jesus building emergency info/aid networks in Minneapolis when things went ham.

    www.theidh.org 
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STRATEGIC COMMUNICATIONS | BIPARTISAN & CROSS-CULTURAL COALITION BUILDING


I spent my career working with the left and right -- to get them to work together -- and spent the last six years on "both sides" of reality. Stop guessing; let me show you how I do this.

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    WE LIVE AND WORK ON BOTH SIDES OF "REALITY." WE'RE REALLY GOOD AT THIS.

    Our divisions are a national security risk; are tearing our families, communities, and companies apart; and I know why our wires got crossed, where the landmines and opportunities are buried, and how to get humans re-connected again.

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COLLEGE REFORM and POST-AI EDUCATION

Director / Associate Professor
School of English, Digital Media, and Communicaation Arts

North Central University: 2018-2023

Assistant Professor / Co-Creator
Division of Rhetoric and Digital Media Arts
Hamline University: 2011-2017


Speechwriter, Office of the President
The Ohio State University: 2007-2009


Co-Founder, Commonplace
McGraw-Hill and The Ohio State University: 2007-2011

  • We have months (not years) to fix higher ed the correct way before we lose it -- and the 21st century -- forever.

  • DIRECTOR and ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR

    School of English, Digital Media, and Communication Arts
    North Central Univesity: 2018-2023

    Assistant Professor and Co-Creator

    Division of Profesional Rhetoric and Digital Media Arts
    Hamline University: 2011-2017

    Assistant Professor / Co-Creator
    Division of Rhetoric and Digital Media Arts
    Hamline Univesrity: 2011-2017


    Speechwriter, Office of the President
    The Ohio State University: 2007-2009


    Co-Founder, Commonplace
    McGraw-Hill and The Ohio State Un

  • And I've spent 20 years leading my corners of higher ed with the best solutions culled

    from Big 10 schools, small colleges ("woke" and MAGA-y), a Fortune 500, and two nationally-recognized university presidents (including Time's "University President of the Year" during a bilion-dollar fundraising campaign.)

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FIRST AMENDMENT & FREE SPEECH

I speak higher education, First Amendment law, and encoded censorship fluently.

FIRST AMENDMENT and FREE SPEECH

I've been studying 1A and technology since the 90s, am headhunted to run the famous national orgs, taught it for 20 years (Big 10 and Bible/lefty colleges),

  • started an internationally recognized 1A art collective, am a legit casualty of the college free speech crisis,


  • and trained thousands of diverse students and citizens to debate/disagree with each other like humans, not gaslit robots.



  • Exec. Director / Professor / Creative Director / Artist / Curator / College 1A Survivor

    20+ years as a leading professor and advocate, co-founder of two First Amendment orgs, curriculum development for three schools and a Fortune 500, headhunted to run national organizations.

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