This site was created by a longtime Iowa resident with a career spent at the intersection of technology and people.
As a graduate student, the site’s founder was among the first to establish digital communications between Iowa and Africa, using experimental satellite technology at a time when such connections were barely imaginable. That early work sparked a lifelong interest in how technology — when understood and guided thoughtfully — can transform lives and communities.
That career led through universities, research institutions, and international development work in India, the Republic of Georgia, and Eastern Ukraine, always focused on one central question: how do people and technology shape each other?
In 2024 that question took on new urgency. The rise of artificial intelligence is unlike anything we have witnessed before. Every month of serious investigation since has only deepened that conviction — AI simultaneously presents challenges and opportunities that are almost beyond imagination.
This conversation needs to be happening at every level of government and community — and it isn’t. Iowa’s AI Future exists to help change that, by informing Iowans and encouraging the rapid development of policies and structures that can help our state navigate what is coming.
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