
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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Commentary: Dr Jenn Chubb In a previous post on Better Images of AI blog, Dr Jenn Chubb and Dr Liam Maloney described the ways in which the sonic framing of AI in narratives affects the public understanding of science. Building on her recent research about the role of music and sound in AI documentaries, Jenn […]
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Exploring the Filmmaker’s Role in the Perception and Reception of AI Opinion: By Tess Buckley I went to church in Cambridge last month to visit a distant relative who lectures as a theologian and philosopher. Although not religious, I was curious about what the church service would entail. During the service, a prayer was delivered […]
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News: The second run of a five-week free course for anyone on AI starts on the 15th January 2023 We were delighted to work with The Scottish AI Alliance designing content for their course designed to give the general public of Scotland (and beyond!) an introduction to the world of AI. The course was to […]
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Opinion: By Tess Buckley My Grandpa (or, as I called him, Boppy) used to read the paper every morning. I remember eating my eggs in silence with him and squinting, trying my best to catch whatever was on the other side of his reading. He shook the papers before flipping to the next side as […]
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Opinion: Why the Post Office and Fujitsu’s deliberate miscarriages of justice are not a scandal, but an outrage we must all share It has taken a TV series to bring widespread attention and police action to what has been described as the Post Office “Scandal” – in which innocent people were criminalised because of accounting […]
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“How do we get the next 10 years right?” This question, posed as the theme of CogX 2021’s hybrid festival, is certainly an intriguing one. Ten years in tech is a long time, especially when we consider the speed of innovation during the pandemic. We’ve written up our thoughts on Day 1 in case you […]
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We and AI, a UK non-profit, were one of the 325 organisations that submitted evidence to the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities, which resulted in the Report published on the 31st March 2021. We are concerned about the soundness of the way evidence to the Commission has been evaluated, and the cogency of the […]
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About us We and AI is a Non-Profit Organisation set up and run by volunteers from a range of different backgrounds and occupations. We work to increase critical thinking about Artificial Intelligence (AI) amongst the general UK population. This is essential to empower people to have a say in how the technology making decisions about […]
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Have you been hearing a lot about artificial intelligence at work or in your personal life, and thinking you should know more? Join Kevin and Peju for an exploration of what AI is really about, why you should care, and what questions you need to be asking. To kick-off the series, Kevin and Peju are […]
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Join us as we investigate invisible AI in our new podcast series You might have heard whispers on the AI grapevine. Maybe Alexa told you. But we can finally confirm the rumours: We and AI is making a podcast! Our first series is called ‘Investigating the Invisible’, and it’s all about surfacing and questioning the […]
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If people know how AI works they can be involved in the conversation, which will only help us make AI better. It takes incredibly skilled people in math to build good, ethical AI products. It takes incredibly ‘human’ humans to help them.
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Some starting points, and why inaction makes you part of the problem For many who saw a man get murdered in front of complicit police colleagues and helpless bystanders, the fact that something needs to change in the system which allows this to repeatedly happen without consequence has become ever more apparent. What might be […]
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