Still Human

What kind of leader are you becoming as you use AI?

Artificial intelligence is already making decisions in small businesses. It ranks job applicants, scores employees, schedules caregivers, drafts client reports, and gives confident advice. Most of what it offers is genuinely useful. But AI doesn't carry responsibility for the people affected by those decisions. The owner still does.

Still Human is written for Christian business owners who want to use AI well without letting it quietly reshape their priorities, their judgment, or the way they see the people who depend on them.

The book is built around twenty-one fictional stories drawn from authentic small-business situations: a plumbing and heating owner holding a report that recommends replacing his most experienced technician, a home care agency whose scheduling system can't see what a confused elderly client needs, a diner owner deciding what to keep personal as her customer relationships go digital, a home inspector tempted to let AI finish the work he's accountable for. None of these owners are villains, and in most cases AI is helping them. The tension comes from the places where efficiency and faithfulness pull in different directions.

Each story is examined through GRACE, a simple framework for faithful discernment:

•Goods in Tension: What competing goods are at stake?
•Responsibility: What do we still own when AI does the work?
•Allegiance: What is actually driving this decision?
•Character: Who is this decision shaping us to become?
•Effect: Who bears the consequences, especially those with less power?

The chapters are organized around the fruit of the Spirit, and each one closes with Scripture and five questions for personal reflection or group discussion.

Russell McGuire is a former Fortune 100 strategy executive, a co-founder of technology startups, and a consultant. He has been on the leading edge of several technology waves. The AI wave also changes the people doing the work, and this book is about keeping that change faithful.