James CochraneCandidate for Middle · September 2026

How I use AI.

Humility · Service · Evidence

I use AI for drafting, pipelining and coding. I don’t use fake accounts on social media, anonymous pages, or generated crowds.

Every fact on this site is verified by me, every position is mine, and I stand behind every word published in my name. If you see it from this campaign, it’s me, signed. AI is a tool I use openly, not a way of manufacturing an audience or a voice that isn’t mine — and yes, I take this seriously: data privacy and anonymity analysis is literally my day job (see the Privacy Policy).

Corrections

When I get a fact wrong, it gets fixed here, visibly, with a date. An empty corrections log should worry you more than a full one.

August 2026 — “The Island That Didn’t Grow.” An early version of this Observatory piece was published, then taken down again within a day after I found a problem with the underlying numbers while double-checking them. It went back up once the figures were corrected. Flagged here rather than quietly fixed. (For clarity, since it’s an easy thing to talk past each other on: the piece tracks real, per-capita growth, not the nominal GDP figure that does rise over the same period — the difference is explained on the piece itself.)

Found something wrong, or something I’ve missed? Tell me — or book 15 minutes and tell me directly.