Data & AI Literacy

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