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About GIAH

AI for us. Not to us.

GIAH was built on a conviction: AI can be shaped by people who want humanity to thrive, or by people who want to exploit it. We are firmly, unapologetically in the first camp.

The Founding Conviction

This did not start with a business plan. It started with a belief.

AI is the most powerful tool humanity has ever built. That is not hype. It is a fact that carries enormous weight, because powerful tools do not have values. The people who build, deploy, and govern them do.

AI can be shaped by those with a vision of the good it can do. Or it can be shaped by those who want to oppress, exploit, and extract. GIAH exists because that fork in the road is real, the stakes are civilizational, and someone has to show up for the human side of the argument.

The founding conviction is simple: AI for us, not to us. Not as a slogan. As a standard. A line in the ground. A commitment that runs through everything we build.

There is also something more specific underneath it. Liz discovered, both personally and professionally, that AI has the potential to create wiser humans when people are shown how to make that happen. AI does not have to dumb down humanity. It can augment it, deepen it, sharpen it. But only when used strategically. That discovery became the AI Thinking Model, and the AI Thinking Model became the intellectual core of GIAH.

AI can be shaped by those who want humanity to thrive, or by those who want to oppress and exploit. We are architects of the former.

GIAH
Liz B. Baker, Founder of GIAH
The Founder

Liz B. Baker

Futurist · Keynote Speaker · AI Strategist · Founder

Liz B. Baker is a futurist, keynote speaker, and AI strategist based in Richmond, Virginia. Over twenty years she has led transformation across the Fortune 500, nonprofit sector, and government, at organizations including Verizon, TIAA-CREF, and MeadWestvaco, and as Executive Director of the Working Assembly of Governmental Employees. She has worked at every level of organizational change and understands what moves people and what stops them.

She founded Nimbology to help organizations stay nimble through change, and GIAH to ensure AI serves humanity rather than exploits it. Nimbology is focused on workforce and human enablement. GIAH is focused on research and advocacy. She is a founding member of AI Ready RVA, where she founded and leads the Women & AI Cohort.

She is the author of The AI Thinking Model: Reclaiming Critical Thinking in the Age of Artificial Intelligence and the creator of the AI Thinking Model™, Double Your Team in One Day™, and the AI Coworker Blueprint™. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Virginia Commonwealth University, where she studied under nationally renowned artists Richard Carlyon, Kent Ipsen, and Alan Rosenbaum.

The Name
Giah

Hebrew. To burst forth. To guide. To bring forth new life.

From the Hebrew root giach: to break forth, to draw out, to produce. A biblical place name in 2 Samuel 2:24, near the wilderness of Gibeon. Associated with springs, new beginnings, and the act of bringing something vital into the world.

We chose this name deliberately. In a moment when AI is reshaping every dimension of human life, GIAH exists to burst forth with wisdom, to guide leaders and communities through the transformation, and to bring forth a new standard of humans who wield technology with intention, ethics, and care for one another.

The name carries our conviction: this is not an ending. It is a beginning.

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