Over the last year, Careful Industries has worked closely with hundreds of people who are getting to grips with whether they should, or shouldn’t, use Generative AI in the workplace. This blog post contains seven things to bear in mind and three “responsible-ish” strategies for using Generative AI to generate text.

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The UK government’s Blueprint for modern digital government sets out an abundant approach to technology in which joined-up, personalised services combine AI with private-sector design principles. But can AI be trusted to deliver this new version of Big Government against a backdrop of domestic austerity and geopolitical turmoil?

5 ways the Digital Inclusion Action Plan could be a bit more exciting.

The Blueprint for Digital Government suggests that “people expect government services to provide the same convenience and personalisation that they see in private sector services”. But public and private services exist for different reasons.

Reserve your spot at the April and May editions of the Reading Group.

A gentle, shared space to come together as an act of hopeful resistance and solidarity building. Come along to this first reading group to share your thoughts about Ruha Benjamin’s Imagination: A Manifesto.

If you’re feeling overwhelmed by AI, five lessons for adopting (or not adopting) new technologies at the speed of trust.

What we achieved this year and things that inspired us

A new report commissioned by the Creative Industries PEC and MyWorld, exploring the future of the creative industries

A very short talk about how we won’t get ethical AI without also building a fairer, more equitable society.

We have had a great year this year making lots of Careful Trouble. This year in review includes our people and culture news, an overview of our Careful Industries foresight and strategic projects, and some highlights from Promising Trouble’s adventures in community tech.

A new report exploring how — and if — Web3 might be used to achieve the greatest global challenges.

This essay explore what infrastructures are needed to cultivate a more feminist, caring digital society.

I read this post by Meg Conley this week and it stopped me in my tracks, particularly this sentence: “Care work is the anticipation of grief.” This post is a rumination on how that term applies to care in a very different context.

Understanding the ingredients for a foresight commons

A guide to how funders, civil society organisations and policymakers can use the Belonging, Care and Repair Foresight report.

Now is a good time to think about how we think about the future.

This is not so much a weeknote as a “two-year note” — an attempt to pull together the different strands of work we’re doing at Careful Industries and our (very new) not-for-profit arm, Promising Trouble and explain why we’re doing it.

We have created the Glimmers Toolkit to aid recovery for civil society organisations, and are calling for a Community Tech Stack, so the future of digital social infrastructure is not dependent on either big technology platforms or start-up “unicorns”.

There is an opportunity to regroup, to rethink structures, and to create imaginative solutions that set out a better future for more people.