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We talk a lot about AI’s drawbacks, but what about its benefits, like feeding authors’ or historical figures’ writing into a large language model? James Lowry is unknown, but his story is part of black American history. Chicago-born Lowry was the first Black McKinsey consultant in 1968 after serving in the Peace Corps in the early 1960s.
He has spent his life encouraging big businesses to invest in historically underrepresented communities. His autobiographical book Change Agent was published recently. Kobie Fuller, a general partner at Upfront Ventures, uses Kobie AI, a customized generative AI approach, to make blog posts interactive.
Bartending and marketing emotion are among his experiments. Jim Lowry’s AI for DEI is new. He fed Lowry’s book into a large language model to let users ask diversity, equity, and inclusion questions. The results are impressive. Fuller says he can talk to him anytime, and this technology lets others do the same.
“The book’s amazing, and this is basically representing the book to you in this interactive fashion where you get to explore all the awesomeness that is Jim,” Fuller told.
Lowry wrote the book to share his world experiences, but he knows not everyone will read it, so the AI lets people learn about his life without reading 300 pages by asking questions.
“I thought this would be powerful for sharing my years of wisdom and insights with many people. Even though people buy the book, they don’t always read it, so using AI in this way is powerful, Lowry said.
This AI prompts people to start:
My life has been dedicated to DEI, and I know the conversation is sensitive for many. I can answer your questions and share my life lessons. Think about what?
Asking questions yields sophisticated and in-depth answers, likely based on Lowry’s words and deeds. Students, historians, DEI pros, and anyone else interested can ask Lowry about DEI issues or specific events in his life, such as meeting Senator Robert F. Kennedy in the Peace Corps in the mid-1960s.
This allows people to interact with Lowry through his work, which can survive him and teach future generations about his experiences as a black man in American business.
As Fuller explores this technology, this is just one way to use it, but it shows generative AI’s power to help people understand other experiences and possibly interact with other historical figures.
