Bill O'Rourke had been counting. "I've listened to comments yesterday and today," he told the room. "50% of the comments I've heard have been ethical." Nobody had put ethics on the agenda for those earlier sessions. It kept surfacing anyway. Bill O'Rourke That observation opened the panel that closed our morning at Carnegie Mellon: "AI: Ethics and Leadership Implications." O'Rourke, retired Alcoa executive and author of The Business Ethics Field Guide, was joined by Denise Rousseau, Carnegie...

"AI is a new language we're all learning." Dr. Ada Safak returned to the phrase more than once, and each time it seemed to land — a small permission slip for a room full of people still working out the grammar. In the fourth session of the Lean Into AI webinar series, Ada walked us through how Worthington Enterprises is building AI capability one persona at a time, and shared what has worked, what has stumbled, and what remains unfinished. The series, hosted by Kelly Reo and The Ohio State...

Steve Spear put it in one line: the machine won't catch the hesitation in a patient's voice, but a thinking clinician will. That was the thread three practitioners pulled on with the full room at the FPW 2026 AI & CI Symposium at Carnegie Mellon. Facilitated by Dave Lassman of Carnegie Mellon University, the session brought together Spear (MIT), Jamie Bonini (TSSC), and Miranda Mathis-Harris, Chief Nursing Officer at Duke Health Lake Norman Hospital. Each came at the same question from a...