Category: Research
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The Hidden Harms of Chatbot Use – Mapped
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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Resisting, refusing, reclaiming, reimagining AI: A new framework to challenge the inevitability of extractive AI
At We and AI we have been working on several projects based around decoding and unpicking the AI hype narratives, framing, words and pictures that are used to legitimise AI which does not work for public good. One narrative we have found to be most insidious is one used to disempower anyone who challenges the…
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Exploring Community Visions of AI and Public Good through Critical AI Literacy
Sharing the learning from an intervention to gain deeper insights in public deliberation In late 2024, We and AI were commissioned by the Ada Lovelace Institute on their project ‘Making good’, to provide a critical AI literacy programme. Through deliberative engagement with communities in Belfast, Brixton and Southampton, the research explored how people feel about…
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5 ways AI is being used to combat Covid-19
The Coronavirus Pandemic has become life changing for all of us wherever we live in the world, the disruption to businesses and our lives unprecedented and profound. Nige Willson explores the different ways artificial intelligence is being used to counter the pandemic in our latest blog post. Nigel is a Global Speaker, Influencer and Advisor…
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The different ways Artificial Intelligence is being used to counter the pandemic
The Coronavirus Pandemic has become life changing for all of us wherever we live in the world, the disruption to businesses and our lives unprecedented and profound. We are all facing the challenges of self-isolating, homeworking, home schooling, food shortages, illness and for some loss of our friends, colleagues or loved ones. But never has…
