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We Are Renting Our Brains, And Nobody Reads the Lease

Written by Eric Macfarlane on August 11, 2026.

Featured in Forbes

As businesses build more of their institutional knowledge into AI systems, questions of ownership, portability, and control are becoming increasingly important. In this Forbes article, Jason Snyder examines the risks of AI vendor lock-in and what happens when the technology an organization depends on changes, disappears, or can no longer carry its accumulated knowledge forward.

Career Highways CEO Liz Eversoll shares her perspective on why portability and explainability are becoming essential to trusted enterprise AI—and why organizations need both control of their data and confidence in the decisions AI makes with it.

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Career Highways CEO Liz Eversoll Featured in Forbes on the Future of Trusted AI

Written by Eric Macfarlane on August 11, 2026.

Career Highways CEO Liz Eversoll was recently featured in Forbes in “We Are Renting Our Brains, And Nobody Reads the Lease,” an examination of AI vendor lock-in, data sovereignty, and the growing importance of maintaining control over the knowledge organizations build within AI systems.

In the article, Eversoll discusses two critical requirements emerging as organizations adopt AI at scale: portability and explainability. Businesses need the ability to act on and retain control of their own data while also understanding and trusting the decisions AI systems make with it.

The discussion reflects a growing shift in enterprise AI—from simply adopting powerful technology to ensuring that the intelligence organizations build remains portable, transparent, and governed.

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