preface: who we are and what we do

The IDH's story begins when Dr. McKain crosses the filter bubble and becomes a 'disinformation diversity hire' at a Bible College....

...that ends up at the epicenter of post-digital civic collapse during a pandemic (#minneapolis) and while we are trying to re-scale (and then save) the last bipartisan "Manhattan Project" left standing.

(The 3 minute video above you.)

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NOT THE OPPENHEIMERS YOU EXPECTED, BUT THE OPPENHEIMERS YOU NEED

The Manhattan Project

And our last chapter -- Hunter Thompson and the Jesus Goonies (barely) survive digital civil war to protect a bipartisan Manhattan Project (that gets our timeline out of Black Mirror) -- is the story America needs to hear right now.

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and then it gets Black Mirror bananas

because right now even the AI thinks we're the last Manhattan Project standing.

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And then it gets Black Mirror meets Fear and Loathing meets Civil War bananas.

Because for twenty years, Dr. McKain has ben leading teams of interdisciplinary (misfit) Oppenheimers

-- dozens of top world experts (plus hundreds of volunteer lawyers, students, advocates, lawmakers, artists, and citizens) --

on a very particular AI, Disinformation, Privacy, and Free Speech "Manhattan Project" that is now proven (multiple times) to do five necessary and difficult things that no one else seems able to do.

and the Black Mirror meets Dead Poet's Society story of how we pulled it off -- bullets, NDAs, embargoes with a Hunter Thompson leading a pack of Jesus Goonies during a preview of digital civil war -- is bananas

Quick snapshots Cliff's Notes Trying to Verify Me Quick? Table of Contents

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preface: who we are
(IDH Podcast)
introduction: the problem/solution
(Manhattan Project)
chapter one: AI and algorithms
(February 2021)
chapter two: disinformation
(March - June 2020)
chapter three: free speech/hate
(2018-present)
chapter four: privacy
(Dec 2021-Dec 2022)

AI I DISINFORMATION I PRIVACY I FREE SPEECH

He has a literally unique interdisciplinary phd (and law degree) in putting out the dumpster fire collision of

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

PHASE ONE: COMMONPLACE
(2006-2011)

He was the speechwriter for Time's University President of the Year.

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

PHASE TWO: THE INSTITUTE FOR AESTHETIC ADVOCACY
(2017-PRESENT)

He started an internationally-recognized free speech think tank / art collective with his students and partners at one of the "wokest" schools in the country

PHASE THREE: THE INSTITUTE FOR DIGITAL HUMANITY
(2018-PRESENT)

He became an "echo chamber diversity hire"
at a Bible College to teach kids on the other side of reality.

PHASE THREE: THE INSTITUTE FOR DIGITAL HUMANITY
(2018-PRESENT)

And co-founded the IDH with those students and a childhood friend from across the aisle: Former Nebraska Asst. Attorney General / Creighton law prof Thomas Freeman

DR. MCKAIN'S CV

THE IDH STORY: #BURSTTHEBUBBLE

chap 1: disinformation & digital division

Nothing encapsulates the IDH's capabilities in disinformation war better than the pandemic.

We are survivors of post-digital civic collapse.

This movie is not survivable on a national scale.

We were originally located a couple miles from Floyd Square. Our host school -- and IDH students -- held the Floyd memorial, making international headlines.

On the ground -- until our school's evacuation a year later during the Chauvin verdict -- our city/lives were chaotic.

Here's a glimpse of what a couple dozen kids, handful of experts, and hundreds of volunteers and artists did to keep people safe/sane. #Minneapolis

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But here's what we did to help keep people safe, alive, and sane in our community. Turned our (zoom) classes into a documentary / podcast hosted a town hall with elected officials on COVID and SURVEILLANCE an international juried art exhibition (that brought both sides of reality together to talk about COVID and mental health and an emergency journalism network (to triangulate what was happening in our city/public health)

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IDH STORY: NEIGHBORSNOTNUMBERS

chapter two: ai and algorithms

employment ai / medical ai / housing ai / predictive policing / social credit scores / facial rec

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VICTORY HIGHLIGHTS helped pass the bipartisan facial recognition ban in Minneapolis hosted an international juried art exhibition and civic forum on race and technology were featured on Nebraska Public Television (with the director of Coded Bias (Netflix) who we would build a high school curriculum with (w/ the Anti-Defamation League and Bytes Media) and interviewed Stanford's Elizabeth Adams (Forbes Top 50 in AI) at our innovative weekly online media law and AI course (with a city councilman and former Assistant Attorney General)

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IDH STORY: STOPACTINGLIKEROBOTS

chapter three: free speech vs. hate speech

Since everything the IDH does is rooted in the First Amendment and free speech

(literally: every class, talk, paper, and civic initiative)

it's hard to separate this one out.

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Chapter 3 Footage it starts with award-winning research AND uses it as the basis of our art exhibitions which put people programmed to disagree into aesthetic dialogue. so the irony of artist Xavier MacFarland (and us) being censored by FBs algorithm (for an artwork ABOUT algorithmic censorship and by a non-white artist AND at an international event co-sponsored by ACLU MN) is not lost on us. And we and create civic deliberation forums (and systems of precedents) to keep track of it. (Like a court.) Then we crowdsource those 'judgement" as (sometimes international and juried) art exhibitions or educational materials. We're particularly good at defending and analyzing comedians

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IDH STORY: #PRIVACYFORALL

chapter four: privacy and surveillance

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CHAPTER 4: PRIVACY and SURVEILLANCE DECEMBER 2021: DR M'S MEDICAL DATA IS SENT TO HIM IN A TARGETTED AD (BY A TOP CIVIL RIGHTS ORG) FOR A PRIVACY EXPERT POSITION (WHILE HE'S IN OUTPATIENT RECOVERING FROM THE SHOOTING). YIKES MAY 2022: THE IDH IS INVITED TO A KEY INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE (REPORTED IN FORBES) JUNE 2022: THE IDH KIDS GO NUTS AFTER THE DOBBS DECISION. DR M'S SISTER ENDS UP ON THE NEWS. AUGUST 2022: THE IDH YELLS AT THE MINNEAPOLIS CITY COUNCIL TO NOT SURVEILL ITS CITIZENS OCTOBER 2022: THE IDH IS RUNNER UP (BEST PAPER) FOR ITS PRIVACY WORK (INTERNATIOAL VINCENTIAN BUSINESS ETHICS CONFERENCE) DECEMBER 2022: THE IDH LAUNCHES "PRIVACY 4 ALL PERIOD" TO UNITE PRO LIFE AND PRO CHOICE PEOPLE AGAINST SURVEILLANCE

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preface: who we are and what we do

The Manhattan Project

And our last chapter -- Hunter Thompson and the Jesus Goonies (barely) survive digital civil war to protect a bipartisan Manhattan Project (that gets our timeline out of Black Mirror) -- is the story America needs to hear right now.

and then it gets Black Mirror bananas

And then it gets Black Mirror meets Fear and Loathing meets Civil War bananas.Because for twenty years, Dr. McKain has ben leading teams of interdisciplinary (misfit) Oppenheimers

-- dozens of top world experts (plus hundreds of volunteer lawyers, students, advocates, lawmakers, artists, and citizens) --

AI I DISINFORMATION I PRIVACY I FREE SPEECH

He has a literally unique interdisciplinary phd (and law degree) in putting out the dumpster fire collision of

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

He was the speechwriter for Time's University President of the Year.

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

PHASE TWO: THE INSTITUTE FOR AESTHETIC ADVOCACY(2017-PRESENT)

He started an internationally-recognized free speech think tank / art collective with his students and partners at one of the "wokest" schools in the country

PHASE THREE: THE INSTITUTE FOR DIGITAL HUMANITY(2018-PRESENT)

He became an "echo chamber diversity hire" at a Bible College to teach kids on the other side of reality.

PHASE THREE: THE INSTITUTE FOR DIGITAL HUMANITY(2018-PRESENT)

And co-founded the IDH with those students and a childhood friend from across the aisle: Former Nebraska Asst. Attorney General / Creighton law prof Thomas Freeman

chap 1: disinformation & digital division

Nothing encapsulates the IDH's capabilities in disinformation war better than the pandemic.

We are survivors of post-digital civic collapse.

This movie is not survivable on a national scale.

We were originally located a couple miles from Floyd Square. Our host school -- and IDH students -- held the Floyd memorial, making international headlines.

On the ground -- until our school's evacuation a year later during the Chauvin verdict -- our city/lives were chaotic.

chapter two: ai and algorithms

employment ai / medical ai / housing ai / predictive policing / social credit scores / facial rec

chapter three: free speech vs. hate speech

Since everything the IDH does is rooted in the First Amendment and free speech(literally: every class, talk, paper, and civic initiative)

it's hard to separate this one out.

chapter four: privacy and surveillance

And then it gets Black Mirror meets Fear and Loathing meets Civil War bananas.

Because for twenty years, Dr. McKain has ben leading teams of interdisciplinary (misfit) Oppenheimers

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

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

PHASE TWO: THE INSTITUTE FOR AESTHETIC ADVOCACY
(2017-PRESENT)

PHASE THREE: THE INSTITUTE FOR DIGITAL HUMANITY
(2018-PRESENT)

He became an "echo chamber diversity hire"
at a Bible College to teach kids on the other side of reality.

PHASE THREE: THE INSTITUTE FOR DIGITAL HUMANITY
(2018-PRESENT)

Since everything the IDH does is rooted in the First Amendment and free speech

(literally: every class, talk, paper, and civic initiative)