Community Tech and AI

​An expert practitioner workshop to understand more about the potential to create small-scale, community-driven AI in the UK.

​This workshop, co-hosted with the National Lottery Community Fund, will focus on climate/planetary-aligned projects and expertise.

​DRAFT AGENDA
1. Community Tech and AI - what are the possibilities and opportunities?
2. What is needed to ensure sufficient data, of sufficient quality? 
3. Skills and capabilities - what is needed, do those still exist? 
4. What are the hardware, computation and other infrastructure requirements? 
5. What would need to be in place to successfully support community AI pilots and programmes?

​Related reading: Varoquaux, G., Luccioni, A.S. and Whittaker, M. (2024) 'Hype, sustainability, and the price of the bigger-is-better paradigm in AI', arXiv.