Credentials in question: How a meditation instructor became a Michigan House ‘expert’ witness on AI

In late February, the Michigan House Oversight Subcommittee on Corporate Subsidies and State Investments brought in Christy Gillenwater, who was introduced as a “retired senior management consultant specializing in mergers and venture capital,” to testify about the financial and surveillance implications of data centers. But Gillenwater was never actually a management consultant — she’s a meditation []