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Key Takeaways Bishop is a new AI offering from Lineage, designed specifically to help families, small business owners and local organizations.
Dr. Ron Paul recently joined the company’s advisory team.
Bishop is currently in private beta and invites people to join the waitlist at lineageco.io.
“The big AI companies are building tools for enterprises, institutions, advertisers and platforms,” says Eric Beach, CEO of Lineage. “But our company’s offering, Bishop, is being built for the people who usually get left behind when a major technological shift hits: the family, the small business owner, the contractor, the coach, the parish, the local operator, the entrepreneur trying to compete without a giant staff behind him.”
Bishop is the first offering from Lineage, a Texas-based artificial intelligence company that just announced Dr. Ron Paul as a member of its advisory team. Paul is advising Beach and aligned with the company’s mission. “That mission is simple: AI should serve people. It should not replace them, manage them or push them aside,” Beach says, explaining that Bishop is designed to help with email, scheduling, research, education, planning, errands and business tasks. “The heads of the biggest companies talk as if society simply has to make room for them. Our view is different. We think AI should link arms with people. It should augment them. It should build their confidence. It should make them more capable inside their own family, business, church, school and community.”
In a conversation with Entrepreneur, Beach broke down Bishop’s capabilities and the company’s business model.
What was the impetus for creating it?
There is a real fear around AI right now, and people are not wrong to feel it. Every day, they hear some version of the same message: AI is coming for your job, your industry, your future. Data centers are going up. Communities are being told to step aside. Workers are being told to retrain, go to trade school or accept that some form of universal basic income may be their future. That is a terrible message to send to a country built by entrepreneurs, workers, families, churches and small institutions.
We started Lineage because we believe there is another path. AI does not have to be a force that hollows people out. It can be a tool that helps them build. It can help parents take a larger role in their children’s education. It can help a small business owner compete with larger firms. It can help anyone with real responsibilities operate with more confidence and less friction.
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