Disclosures

I wrote a column on Computerworld about why I fully disclose my AI use in both personal and professional communication (and think you should, too).

Here is everything I have to disclose:

• I don’t use AI for writing. The words, sentences, and paragraphs you read on this site are mine.

• I don’t publish AI-generated images or video, unless the subject is AI-generated imagery and I’m using it as an example. If you see a photograph that looks like a photograph, it’s a photograph.

• I use a variety of AI chatbots via Kagi Assistant (mostly the latest reasoning models from Google and Anthropic) for general-purpose exploration.

• My son, Kevin, works at Kagi.

• I use Google’s MacOS desktop Gemini app for quick-and-dirty “searches.”

• I use Google’s iOS AI Edge Eloquent occasionally to transcribe and capture words that I’ll use in my writing.

• I use Perplexity as a search engine when I’m particularly interested in the source links.

• I use both Kagi Search and Google Search to find articles and websites.

• My main “word processor” is Lex. After writing an article without the use of AI for writing, I use Lex to challenge my work via it’s built-in access to Anthropic’s Claude 4.5 Opus Pro. I have separate prompts I use within Lex for 1) finding gaps and missing information; 2) challenging my argument: 3) fact-checking; and 4) headline suggestions.

• All my work takes place under the umbrella of a company owned by my wife and me called Elgan Media, Inc.

• I write a weekly column for Computerworld. The publication is owned by Foundry (formerly IDG Communications), which was sold by Blackstone-backed IDG to private equity firm Regent L.P. in March, 2025.