About | AI Engines

Half fingerprint. Half circuit. The meeting point is where we work.

The AI Engines mark is a split: one half is a human fingerprint, the other is a circuit-patterned brain. The human on the left, identity and judgment first. The technology on the right, in service of that judgment. The two halves meet in the middle. That meeting point is the company, the workshops, and the work we do with every client.

Michael Jones

Founder, lead instructor · Marion, Indiana

I walk across the bridge first, then turn around and coach others across.

Mike is the founder of AI Engines and the author of the HUMAN-HEART AI Resilience Framework. His career bridges enterprise technology and education. He has served as Training Lead for international sales at Hewlett Packard (US, India, Spain, and Canada) and as Director of Technology at Schryver Medical, where he led HIPAA-compliant systems across Colorado offices.

At Indiana Wesleyan University he has written courses, taught as adjunct faculty, led ed tech innovations, launched, engineered and co-hosted The Digital2Learn Podcast and a Facebook Fridays live show, produced countless course videos and documentary films, and served as Assistant Director of the National and Global Future Learning Lab. There he coached more than 250 faculty, staff, administrators, and instructional designers through AI onboarding, ethical use, and specialized AI bot builds. He also helped drive over one million dollars in avoided vendor costs by teaching himself advanced VR tools and C#, then worked with faculty and staff to build virtual reality experiences and gamified learning objects, including a complete VR city with interactive avatars for a gamified Sociology course. He has presented and taught workshops at international and national conferences, most recently OLC 2025.

He is a Level 3 Certified AI Agent Developer through MindStudio, the highest tier of that program, with the build credentials to ship the same kind of agents he teaches participants to design. He holds an MFA in Screenwriting from Asbury University, a BS in Business Information Systems from Indiana Wesleyan University, and a Steadicam Operator certification. He is a U.S. Army veteran who served as an M1 Abrams turret mechanic during Desert Storm, awarded the Louisiana War Cross and three Army Achievement Medals. He lives in Marion, Indiana.

His work is pedagogically sound, bridge-building by design, and built on a simple rule: AI must strengthen the human it serves, not replace them.

James Weaver

Co-instructor, developer advocate · Greater Indianapolis

Java Champion, JavaOne Rockstar, Quantum Developer Advocate.

James is a Java Champion, a JavaOne Rockstar, and a Quantum Developer Advocate. He is the author of Inside Java, Beginning J2EE, the Pro JavaFX series, and Java with Raspberry Pi. He has taught thousands of developers at conferences around the world and brings enterprise-scale credibility into every workshop.

In AI Engines workshops, James translates advanced ideas into working examples. Teachers, pastors, and small-business owners leave with the same clarity he gives senior engineers.

The HUMAN-HEART framework

HUMAN-HEART is Mike's instructional design framework for AI-resilient teaching. HUMAN names five levels of human competency with AI, from honing the underlying craft to directing full AI-assisted workflows. HEART is a five-step design method that pairs with it: highlight the learning outcome, examine AI vulnerability, assign the right HUMAN level, refocus the rubric on judgment over typing, and test for integrity and transference. We do not set the regulatory floor for your context. We help you recognize the one your institution already operates under and design around it. The result is courses and assignments where AI reinforces academic integrity rather than eroding it.

HUMAN-HEART is purpose-built for education contexts. It runs as a separate, custom engagement, not as part of the AI Foundations workshop. See the services page to start a conversation about a HUMAN-HEART engagement for your school, department, or district.