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Owner Biography - Kelly McLendon

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McLendon IP has been created to offer content and services for the healthcare AI Governance market. Kelly McLendon, RHIA, CHPS has been actively working in the healthcare record management, privacy and security specialties for nearly 50 years. 

Mclendon IP offers standards and regulatory based AI Governance Assessment and Services. AI plodded along for decades, slowly evolving in components such as Large Language Models and Natural Language Processing, but recently has exploded into a very rapidly evolving and changing set of technologies with unknown potentials. And very, very few guardrails and required compliance safeguards. 

Building upon older technologies, the newest generations of AI are combining to form systems that can be interacted by people with language in the natural format for which they think and speak. All while the system is designed to think in ways that emulate human thought with memories that are really re-enforcement of successful “thoughts”. With vast data that is ever increasing to draw from (who knows the real number, but one source puts the amount of data at 9.3 exabytes (9,300,000,000 gigabytes) a number that is simply staggering. 

But as a result, AI is finally freeing humanity from the very precise tedium that is required for successful computer application code development and is changing so many aspects of technology generation and use in ways that have been unseen previously. It’s enlightening to see Star Wars, Star Trek, 2001 A Space Odyssey coming true with the advent of real computing that can be spoken to and reacts as if it were human.

With these advances come profound, even existential risks. Governments around the world are struggling to keep up with the pace of change AI is disruptively introducing, much less think ahead of it with determination of where and what the controls should be established to protect jobs and even the population in general. 

But the challenge is not insurmountable, we can apply what we’ve learned about governance of risk in technology and general compliance, although initially it’ll not be driven so much by law and regulation as commonly agreed upon standards and monitoring. AI risk identification and management has already been started by NIST (The United States National Institute of Standards and Technology) with their Risk Management Framework (RMF) version 1.0, laying out AI compliance risk analysis adopted from security and privacy frameworks that already have been established and are used every day. McLendon IP has built assessment and other tools especially for AI governance with an eye towards security/cybersecurity and privacy. 

Doing so has required a learning curve, which we are all going through, as this old, but new, AI technology moves forward disrupting and making changes to the status quo of our world’s technology, changing both capabilities and processes at an unheard-of rate. But using foundations established with past technological change combined with leading edge advances in AI and human interactions companies like McLendon IP are busy being forerunners as we shift into the changes that are coming about every day.