About Marenda Hughes Taylor
I design human-centered AI systems where culture, dignity, and lived experience are not afterthoughts but foundational logic.
My work sits at the intersection of conversational AI design, cultural intelligence, and AI governance. I specialize in translating human values into enforceable machine behavior—ensuring that AI systems don't merely sound human, but behave humanely.
Rather than asking AI to "do better," I design the rules that make better outcomes inevitable.
Marenda Hughes Taylor, Developer of Soul-Centered Conversational AI™
Soul-Centered Conversational AI™
Soul-Centered Conversational AI™ is a proprietary framework I developed for governing how AI understands, reasons, and generates outputs involving human identity, culture, representation, and creativity.
Unlike traditional conversational AI that prioritizes speed or fluency, this framework encodes lived experience, cultural accuracy, emotional realism, and ethical constraints directly into the system's behavior.
Cultural Intelligence as System Logic
Culture is not decoration added to outputs—it's embedded in how the AI processes information, understands context, and makes decisions.
Representation as Enforceable Rules
Rather than hoping AI gets representation right, the framework prevents misrepresentation before it occurs through mandatory constraints and explicit exclusions.
Human Dignity Encoded Upstream
Dignity isn't corrected after generation—it's designed into the prompting logic, output structure, and decision framework from the beginning.
Creativity Governed by Structure
Creative outputs aren't left to chance. They follow deterministic rules that ensure consistency, quality, and cultural accuracy while maintaining artistic value.
Human-in-the-Loop Authority
The framework replaces blind probabilistic generation with human judgment at every critical decision point, ensuring outputs align with values, not just patterns.
Proven Through Real-World Testing
I developed and validated Soul-Centered Conversational AI™ by building culturally accurate creative products that center Black joy, rest, wellness, and family.
This wasn't theoretical work. I built complete AI systems that generated production-ready outputs for commercial publishing—coloring books celebrating rest as resistance, creative tools centering dignity, and content that refused to flatten identity into stereotypes.
This real-world R&D proved the framework prevents bias at the system level, not through post-editing or hope.
Cultural Accuracy Tested
Built systems that generated realistic, dignified representations across age, gender, body type, and ability without Eurocentric defaulting or stereotype reinforcement.
Bias Prevention Validated
Created governance rules that eliminated common AI failures—flattened identity, inaccurate anatomy, trauma-only narratives—before generation occurred.
Production Quality Achieved
Generated print-ready, commercially viable outputs that met professional publishing standards while maintaining cultural integrity.
Formal Training in AI Ethics
My methodology combines practical system design with formal training in AI ethics, bias recognition, and communication strategy. Eight professional certifications from Skillsoft validate my expertise in identifying and eliminating discriminatory patterns in AI outputs.
AI Ethics & Safety (December 2025)
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Recognizing Hallucinations, Inaccuracies, and Bias in AISkillsoft · December 27, 2025
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Navigating AI Ethical Challenges and RisksSkillsoft · December 27, 2025
Generative AI (December 2025)
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Harnessing the Disruption of Generative AISkillsoft · December 27, 2025
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Generative AI and Its Impact to Everyday BusinessSkillsoft · December 27, 2025
Communication Strategy (2025)
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Adapting Your Communication Style to Lead EffectivelySkillsoft · October 3, 2025
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The Art and Science of CommunicationSkillsoft · June 30, 2025
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Expanding Your Communication Skill SetSkillsoft · June 30, 2025
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Becoming an Emotionally Intelligent LeaderSkillsoft · June 2, 2025
Academic Foundation
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Business Communications DegreeDeVry University · Graduating 2026
Now Available as Commercial Products
After proving Soul-Centered Conversational AI™ through creative work and validating it with formal training, I've packaged the methodology as self-service AI governance frameworks for corporate brand protection.
Companies face significant reputational, legal, and DEI risks when generic ChatGPT prompts produce biased outputs. Research shows AI systems routinely generate gender-stereotyped language, racially discriminatory content, and ableist outputs that contradict public diversity commitments.
My frameworks apply Soul-Centered methodology to corporate use cases—helping organizations prevent bias at the system level while maintaining effectiveness. Built for companies with DEI commitments, brand safety concerns, or legal compliance requirements.
Same proven methodology. Different application. Self-service products with no consulting required.
Protect Your Brand with Proven Methodology
AI governance frameworks built using Soul-Centered Conversational AI™—tested through real-world creative work, validated by formal training, packaged for corporate brand protection.
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