From the course: Where to Start with AI and Business Strategy with Chris McKay
What are some innovative ways to foster AI literacy?
From the course: Where to Start with AI and Business Strategy with Chris McKay
What are some innovative ways to foster AI literacy?
- Would you mind sharing some more innovative approaches, out-of-the-box thinking to fostering AI literacy within an organization, especially among non-technical staff? - Sure, I love that question because I think there sometimes can be this misconception that you need to be technical in order to thrive when it comes to AI, and the reality is that your goal isn't to learn how to code or how these models work, but it's to learn what to code. And so some fun things that we have done in the past is to do things like learning Fridays, where we would have dedicated time on a Friday, rather than focusing on external-facing client meetings and a lot of client work, we look internally and we talk to each other about what worked with some of the initiatives that we're focused on, what didn't work. We bring books to the conversation, and there's so many books that I think I would recommend for people that are interested in AI right now. Books like "Live 3.0" by Max Tegmark is one of my absolute favorite books. If you are just getting into AI, you're non-technical, it's a book I recommend to everybody on your staff, simply because it sets the groundwork and it establishes a baseline for basic definitions because you can, believe it or not, within businesses, sometimes you're having conversations and you haven't even agreed on what the definition of AI is. And so being able to just get everybody on the same page as great, an amazing, but because it starts off as fiction, just looking at that fictional story and then it goes into AI ethics and what an AI-first world could look like. There are lots of podcasts that we discussed. And so there are people on LinkedIn that we talk about following, and so if you're technical, there are more technical people to follow. There are people that are focused more on prompting, and the community that you can find, especially on LinkedIn, I talk about how amazing this moment that we're in with AI is because it reminds me of what the design community culture looked like 10 years ago, when everyone was just working together and collaborating, and you just had this massive explosion of design work, and I think you're seeing that today with AI, where people are self aggregating online. And so bringing that into the office, bringing that into the conversation to make these recommendations I think is going to be key. But having a culture that people feel comfortable failing and talking about the failures and identifying what didn't work, why it didn't work, and having that conversation is going to be super helpful. - I love those ideas, and I think that not only are they interesting, but they sort of hit on multiple learning styles. The podcasts for people that have auditory learning preferences and the books for people that prefer to learn by reading, and of course just learn by doing is with kinetic learning. Everything is just so catered to sort of a wide range of abilities and backgrounds and also learning styles, so I love that. - Awesome.