{"id":2796,"date":"2026-10-02T10:49:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T17:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/alumni\/?p=2796"},"modified":"2026-10-02T10:49:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T17:49:08","slug":"james-w-michel-68","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/alumni\/2026\/10\/02\/james-w-michel-68\/","title":{"rendered":"James W. Michel &#8217;68"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">James W. Michel \u201968 (chemistry) is building education for the AI era after four decades in primary care medicine. Based in Camas, Washington, he founded Cosmic Chronicles Creative, an educational publishing venture for children and adults. His work connects scientific inquiry, clinical judgment, and a central question: how can powerful assistance leave people more capable of understanding, choosing, and taking responsibility?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Using human\u2013AI collaboration, James is developing The Dimensional Archive on Substack as a navigable \u2018Forest\u2019 of essays, thematic trails, and connected ideas. His foundational essay, \u2018Why AI Education Is Not Really About AI,\u2019 explores curiosity and responsibility for judgment. On September 25, he published \u2018Built to Help the World Thrive,\u2019 exploring how data-center infrastructure might contribute to surrounding communities and ecosystems. Related coursework remains in development, with the aim of strengthening human agency and the capacity to examine consequences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Explore: <a href=\"https:\/\/doctorjamesmichel.substack.com\">https:\/\/doctorjamesmichel.substack.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James W. Michel \u201968 (chemistry) is building education for the AI era after four decades in primary care medicine. Based [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":384,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,82,18],"class_list":["post-2796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-64","category-careers","category-chemistry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/384"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2796"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2797,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2796\/revisions\/2797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}