What this place is — and what it is not.
The AI Institutes is a private research institute for AI education and implementation research, founded and directed by Ed Lions — Principal Researcher, M.S. in Marketing (Florida International University). The research program has run since 2020; the Institutes is the banner it now publishes under.
Ed Lions is an AI marketing architect: "I architect AI-driven marketing systems, and the media engines that feed them." His background spans national broadcast (iHeartMedia), federal communications (National Institutes of Health), higher education (FIU, Howard University), and two decades of direct-response marketing study and practice. Full biography at edlions.com.
"The AI Institutes is my private research institute — independent work in AI education and implementation research, pursued on my own time the way a professor pursues a book. It is not a marketing agency, it sells no services, and it does not compete with OMG."
Research correspondence: edwardlionshq@gmail.com. The director's companion show is Your Personal Superintelligence.