AI is revolutionising many aspects of our lives. Whether its across sectors like design, legal and finance or charities like us, its potential is boundless.  

The investment costs and environmental challenge fuelling AI are huge. The positives are potentially world-changing, as are the negatives. 

The beast is awake and feeding. The question is, can we control it and ensure it is beneficial and inclusive to all? Or, do we repeat the mistakes of AI’s first incarnation – the digital revolution – and exclude vulnerable parts of our community?  

A key learning from the move to digital over the past 30 years is to avoid focusing solely on the design, and consider how people can actually access and use the technology. Those who were driving the technology of the internet era focused on what digitalisation could do,........

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