
Skills-based digital literacy has failed to provide public benefit. So why is upskilling the UK’s only plan? As part of a range of bombastic statements about the UK’s uncritical embracing of AI in everything, the Government recently announced the AI Skills Boost. It promised “free AI training for all,” and claimed that the courses will […]
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A broad taxonomy of AI chatbot harms caused to individual users Introduction At We and AI we have been concerned by the lack of awareness of the wide range of harms caused by AI chatbots for a long time. Despite the huge encouragement to use chatbots as companions, coworkers, doctors, teachers, counsellors, life advisors, friends, […]
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A curated research session at the Hype Studies Conference, “(Don’t) Believe the Hype?!” 10-12 September 2025, Barcelona By Cinzia Pusceddu Better Images of AI and We and AI have been exploring the role of visual and narrative metaphors in shaping our understanding of AI. As part of this we invited some researchers who have been […]
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Date: 9th February 2026 Updated Open Letter to the UK Government: Prioritising AI Literacy for All People To Prime Minister Keir Starmer; Rt Hon Liz Kendall MP, Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology; the Rt Hon Bridget Phillipson MP, Secretary of State for Education On Wednesday 28th of January we saw the government […]
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