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Let me tell you a story I often hear the following argument - I don’t need to know how a car works to drive it, so why do I need to know how AI works to use it? Well, you don’t. But let me tell you a story. Someone I know brought a new car, took it for a long trip up to the top of the North Island, on the way back filled it up with fuel. Not long after leaving the petrol station, it broke down, spectacularly. It turned out they had put the wrong fuel in it 🙁 (it wasn’t me

AI will do it all You may be wondering why on earth, in the age of AI, would anyone need to worry about data literacy? Surely, (and don’t call me Shirley), you can just ask any of Claude, Gemini, ChatGPT etc. to simply give you the answers you need in a matter of seconds. AI is data Well, first up, what we’re calling AI today is simply data and patterns under the hood. And the more you understand how that all works, the better you’ll be able to understand when it works well

In a nutshell It’s simply about using data & AI in such a way that values and respects people. That’s it. Not really rocket science, is it? But, like most things, when it comes to actually doing it in real life, things can get a lot murkier. Valuing people So how do we show that we value people when it comes to data and AI? Well, first up, we should be clear about what we are doing with it and what people will really get out of it (honestly, without overselling or hiding de

Because people matter And right now, many people feel invisible - that they’re just a data point, a number in a spreadsheet. And as we rely more and more on data, AI and algorithms to make our decisions, the more disconnected with people we become. And sadly, the more disconnected with people we are, the greater the chance we can cause some real harm. A real-life example Take for example, the Australian Centrelink welfare overpayments scandal. They created an algorithm [and I