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Updated Open Letter to UK Government. Prioritising AI Literacy for all

The growing call for public (critical) AI literacy in the UK

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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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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Exploring metaphors of AI: Visualisations, narratives and perception

Review of  “Exploring Metaphors of AI: Visualisations, Narratives and Perception”

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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Leaving AI explainers up to tech companies: What could go wrong?

Opinion: By Tania Duarte In the absence of any funded civil society or national school and adult initiatives in the UK, tech companies fill the vacuum. For instance, Snapchat.AI have an AI literacy guide and Google DeepMind have developed Experience AI. It can seem sensible to educators and policymakers to make use of free resources […]

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