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About Shelly Palmer

Shelly Palmer is the Professor of Advanced Media in Residence at the Newhouse School of Public Communications and CEO of The Palmer Group, a consulting practice that helps Fortune 500 companies with tech strategy & solutions.
Named LinkedIn's Top Voice in Technology, he covers tech and business for Fox 5's Good Day New York, is a regular commentator on CNN, and writes the popular daily business blog, Think About This.

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New York City’s School AI Moratorium, in Facts

Here are the facts: On September 2, 2026, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Schools Chancellor Kamar Samuels announced a one-year moratorium on student-facing generative artificial intelligence in the city’s public schools for the 2026-27 school year. The moratorium covers children from 2-K through eighth grade and applies to all software that uses student-facing generative AI. City Hall said the policy will affect nearly 600,000 students, which is about two-thirds of the public-school system’s enrollment. New York City operates the largest public-school system in the United States. Continue Reading →

OpenAI Wires ChatGPT into Epic’s EHR

OpenAI announced that healthcare organizations can now connect their Epic electronic health record (EHR) environments to ChatGPT for Healthcare. Clinicians can ask what changed since a patient's last visit, which lab results to review before an appointment, and whether there were medication changes or new specialist recommendations; ChatGPT then assembles the answer from the authorized patient record and points back to the supporting chart information. Continue Reading →

The AI Org Chart

Cultural Debt is the sum of every unresolved habit, unexamined process, and unspoken assumption an organization carries forward. It is sustained by the inertia of the exceptionally powerful, "that's the way we do it." Add a dash of, "not invented here," then garnish with the growing fear of AI, and you've got a recipe for a huge leadership challenge. Continue Reading →