Ethical AI Readiness: navigating AI's human-centric promises and pitfalls

Hosted by Rob Walden, this keynote, sharing and planning forum focuses on a critical reflection and solutions to human-centric ethical AI challenges and concerns.

This event is for leaders of any profile (CEOs through to informal champions) who are navigating the complexities of artificial intelligence in their setting, or just want to increase knowledge and critical understanding to support development. We’ll explore challenges and risks such as environmental sustainability, mental health, equity and equality, as well as 'fake news' and 'deep-fakes' - disinformation, misinformation, and conspiracy theories (which is now a part of the latest KCSIE guidelines).

• Optionally, feel free to come with a problem to solve or a solution to a problem.
• Suitable for education, or businesses with an education focus. Half the session will be dedicated to discussion and planning with the other half a keynote, delivered by Rob Walden (Executive Partnerships and AI Digital Skills Development)
• Feel free to bring a 'did you know', any questions, good or bad practice, anecdotes, events, research or resource - focused on the leadership of AI.

Framed by the latest DfE updates, audits and training materials for leaders and the November Ofsted guidelines, example topics include...

• Spotting, understanding and mitigating AI's more 'unusual' and sometimes dangerous behaviour
• Understanding the positive and negative potential for academic integrity, critical thinking and cognitive load
• Equality and equity of access - what's the difference and is this an aspiration or reality?
• How can we utilise the experiences of SEND teachers and students to scale ethical AI adoption
• The environmental sustainability challenge - is this being ignored? What's happening in the background to mitigate?
• How are we leading an understanding of 'fake news' - misinformation, disinformation, and conspiracy (KCSIE)
• Who is most vulnerable to AI risks - students, parents or teachers - and can we mitigate the domino effect of one affecting the other
• Effective engagement with parents and students - what do they need to know, and who's delivering the message?
• Is AI really unavoidable? How can we hold on to the behaviours and values that make us human without falling behind

Applied funcational knowledge - basic overviews to support informed discussions and good decision making

• How Generative AI works - and why at least a basic understanding of this is so important in use cases
• Black Box systems - and whether you can trust even the guardrailed AI

• Adaptive or Generative AI? What's the difference and why does it matter?
• Open and closed systems - why understanding this is important

Your host: Rob Walden

Rob works on ethical AI adoption at Eastern Education Group, focusing on real-world implementation, scaling knowledge and understanding of industry trends that shape our current work and future lives.

His work examines evidence, research and industry case studies to address emerging challenges in behavioural patterns, safety, safeguarding, cyber security and critical thinking.

Rob is committed to scaling and weaving AI into the fabric of education, aligning it with safeguarding, compliance, and learner development - not simply as a standalone tool.a