Responsible Use of Digital Intelligence
Responsible AI for how we live, learn, and work.
RUDI is an initiative dedicated to the Responsible Use of Digital Intelligence. We bring people together to understand AI, apply it responsibly, and shape the role it plays in our lives.
Technology is changing how we engage with information, build knowledge, and get work done. We believe people need the education, practical experience, and voice to help guide that change.
Why RUDI exists
Help people take part in the changes ahead.
RUDI grew out of hands-on work with AI and a belief that understanding it would become part of everyday literacy. As AI becomes part of how people think, create, and solve problems, education has to help them direct it and question its results.
That is why our work starts with people. The choices we make about technology affect who can participate, whose knowledge is valued, and who carries responsibility when something goes wrong. People need a say in those choices, along with the skills and support to make them.
We are building a practical framework for navigating this change: shared principles, accessible education, and a playbook people can use in their own lives and organizations.
Our three pillars
Live, learn, and work.
Live
Make informed choices about the technology in our everyday lives. Understand how AI shapes the information we encounter, what we share, and the decisions we make.
Learn
Build the literacy to ask better questions, evaluate information, and develop our own understanding. Give people room to practice, make mistakes, and keep learning as the tools change.
Work
Prepare people for how jobs and organizations will change. Learn with real tasks, help teams redesign their work, and decide where human judgment and responsibility belong.
From belief to practice
Apply AI with people and responsibility in view.
Human-centered by design.
We start with the people affected by a change and involve them in shaping it. Their goals, experience, access to support, and ability to question a result belong in the design.
Our human-centered approachResponsible in application.
We define what AI should do, what information it may use, and who is accountable for the outcome. We test its work and make sure a person can review, correct, or stop it. Our RESPECT framework turns those principles into questions a team can use.
How we put responsibility into practiceWe make this work usable through free learning resources, a Workplace AI Playbook, and hands-on training and implementation.
The RUDI team
An initiative shaped by the people doing the work.
RUDI brings together educators, builders, and collaborators around a shared commitment to responsible, human-centered AI.
The people we work with bring knowledge of their classrooms, communities, and organizations. We bring education and applied development, and learn alongside them. Together, that work helps us refine the frameworks and practices we share.
Based in Cincinnati and working nationally, we connect community learning with the practical needs of organizations preparing for the future of work.
Founded by Brandon Z. Hoff
Brandon designs and oversees AI learning programs and builds AI applications and agentic infrastructure: systems that connect AI agents with tools, information, and human oversight.
His education work includes developing AI curricula and helping shape future-of-work programs with The Propel Center, teaching at the University of Illinois Springfield, and participating in Apple’s global Community Education Initiative. Across these settings, his focus is helping people develop the skills to understand, build, and manage AI.
With The Co-Llab Group, he builds intelligence systems and agentic applications for real estate, including tools for property research and pre-development analysis. His work with Urban Land Institute includes teaching real estate professionals how to apply AI in early-stage development.
He holds an MBA from EDHEC Business School and has completed professional training through MIT xPRO, IBM, and DeepLearning.AI, including MIT xPRO’s Driving Innovation with Generative AI.
Selected experience
Work with employers, educators and communities.
These examples describe past engagements and events; they do not imply a current formal partnership or endorsement.
- Walker SCM
- AI adoption strategy and rollout planning for a 1,200-employee enterprise.
- Warren County ESC
- Executive AI literacy and educator programs.
- AfroTech & The Mercantile Library
- Speaking and community education on AI use.
Work with RUDI
Help your people prepare for what comes next.
Bring the questions your team, school, or community is facing. We can help you build understanding, choose where AI can be useful, and put responsible practices to work.
Talk with RUDILearn about our work in Greater Cincinnati.