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AI Is Our Friend, Not Our Replacement

August 29, 2025

Unless you’ve been living completely off-grid —maybe in a cabin somewhere in the Cascades—you’ve likely been hearing about and interacting with artificial intelligence, or AI. Here in the Puget Sound region, from Microsoft’s Redmond campus to Amazon’s towers in South Lake Union, we live in the heart of high-tech AI development. But even in the Silicon Forest of Washington,…

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AI Friend or Foe

AI: Friend or Foe?

March 15, 2024

The late 70’s introduced the concept of ‘video killing the radio star’ by way of the Buggle’s hit song. The song relates to concerns about machines and technological instruments altering what we knew as music. Would it take over and replace what we loved? Would it make it better? No one knew, and the unknown…

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