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Question, explore, test, and compare. Curiosity makes room for better questions and better judgment.
Hands On AI
Meet Christopher
Curious by nature. Practical by choice.
Christopher Gulledge is a Practical AI Integration Coach who helps people make room for technology without losing the part that makes their work, ideas, and lives their own.
Start a conversationWhere it all began
It started with Papa—and a world of possibility.
Christopher's grandfather, Papa, was a retired naval officer with a gift for making computers feel like an invitation. He showed Christopher that every component, command, and line of code was there to be explored, understood, and put to use.
With Papa, technology was never a mystery to admire from afar. It was something you could learn by doing—and that spark has stayed with Christopher through a career in healthcare and a lifelong belief that useful tools should help people do more of what matters to them.
Why this matters
More confidence. More curiosity. More agency.
AI helped Christopher during a difficult season: as a way to think, create, solve problems, and keep moving. That experience became the reason for this work—not to convince everyone to love AI, and not to dismiss its risks or hype, but to help people build practical skills and make their own informed choices.
The goal is a welcoming place to learn what helps, question what does not, and stay in charge of the work.
Life beyond the workshop
Rooted in a Full Life
Christopher shares his life with his husband, Jason. That life—the conversations, the time outside, the projects around the house, the things that go wrong, and the ordinary work of being human—is part of what keeps his approach to technology grounded.
AI is part of that life, but it is not the point of it.
Jason has known Christopher long before generative AI became part of his daily routine, which gives him a particularly good view of what has actually changed.
“Christopher has always been curious and willing to try new things. What AI changed was how quickly he could move from not knowing something to actually learning it. Before, he could spend hours researching just to find the right information. Now he spends more of that time learning, testing, troubleshooting, and building.”
That shows up in surprisingly ordinary places. Christopher has used AI to help build websites, create home automations, troubleshoot software, understand appliance and lawn-equipment repairs, plan projects, and work through unfamiliar problems around the house.
Sometimes the result is a solution. Sometimes it is simply a better understanding of the problem.
“We tried using AI to help figure out what was wrong with our RV. We still couldn’t fix it ourselves, but we understood a lot more about how the engine worked, what the possible problems were, and what we were talking about when we finally went to a mechanic.”
Over time, Jason has also watched Christopher deliberately shape the way he works with AI—correcting it, establishing preferences and boundaries, asking it to pause for questions or confirmation, and remaining involved whenever judgment is required.
“To me, it has become an extension of Christopher. It hasn’t replaced him.”
That does not mean every task needs AI.
Jason is occasionally responsible for reminding Christopher of this.
“Sometimes I’m perfectly happy doing something myself, and Christopher will say, ‘You know, AI could do that for you.’ Sometimes that’s helpful. Sometimes I’m thinking, I could already have this done.”
That tension matters.
The goal is not to use AI everywhere simply because it exists. It is to recognize when technology genuinely gives a person more ability, understanding, or freedom—and when the better tool is still their own hands, experience, or judgment.
After 20 years together this month, Jason describes the overall change simply:
“AI has transformed Christopher’s life, mostly for the better. He’s still the same curious person he always was. He just has a much faster way to learn, explore, and turn that curiosity into something.”
For Christopher, that is ultimately what AI literacy is about: not replacing the human parts of life, but giving people more ways to participate in them.
Three principles
Curiosity. Learning. Keep yourself in the work.
Always be learning
Know enough about the subject and the process to notice what is useful, what is missing, and what needs a closer look.
Keep yourself in the work
Use AI for up to 80% of the heavy lifting, while keeping at least 20% for your own thinking, judgment, review, and decisions.