ALUMA · ETHICS, REFLECTION & AI
Keep human judgment at the center of AI.
Innovation grounded in reflection. Technology centered on people.
Aluma offers training, original frameworks, writing and practical tools to support responsible AI use. We help people and organizations examine assumptions, consider context and nuance, and build reflective practices that keep ethics, compassion and human understanding part of everyday decisions.
Put reflection into practice.
As AI becomes part of everyday practice, your experience, questions and professional judgment matter. Aluma connects ideas, learning and practical support to help you understand the technology, consider its implications and use it thoughtfully.
Make sense of what’s changing.
Read Messy Ethics/Intelligent Care, a newsletter about how AI is changing the way we help, care for, and understand one another. Explore the frameworks behind Aluma’s approach to reflection, human judgment and responsible AI use.
Strengthen how you work with AI.
ThinkSpace combines self-paced training, realistic professional scenarios and guided reflection to help you understand AI and examine how you interact with it. Foundational learning and profession-specific training connect that understanding to ethical questions, professional responsibilities and the decisions you encounter in your work.
Find support for the work in front of you.
Explore apps for reflective conversation, supervision preparation, community resources and professional documentation, alongside downloadable social work guides and toolkits. These resources are designed to support thoughtful practice, with your judgment and the people you serve at the center.
Help shape what comes next.
Aluma SDK is a developer toolkit for analyzing AI responses in apps and other digital products. It flags patterns such as overly directive language, unsupported assumptions and false certainty, helping developers identify where a response may overlook context or limit a person’s choices. Developers decide how to act on the findings.
Founded by Ashleigh Gardner-Cormier, LMSW
Social Worker, Writer, Ethics-Focused Practitioner
Ashleigh brings experience across mental health, healthcare, legal and hospice settings to Aluma. She created Aluma to connect reflective practice, learning and practical technology—helping social workers approach AI with purpose and bringing the profession’s perspective into its development.
Messy Ethics/Intelligent Care
A newsletter exploring how AI is changing our lives, our relationships and our sense of what it means to be human. Thoughtful questions about ethics, care and the choices we make as technology becomes part of everyday life.