One of the questions we are asked most frequently at the moment is whether using AI is bad for the environment. And what should an AI policy say about environmental impacts? This is an area that can get complicated. Robust numbers are very hard to find, and numbers without...
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When I ask people in charities ‘who is using AI in your organisation?’ over 90% of people say ‘yes’. That’s a very big change from when I asked the question about a year ago. Then it was around 33-45%. There’s still a big governance gap to close, as very few organisations have an...
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At SCVO, we’ve just finalised our first AI policy guidelines. Here’s some background on how we put them together. Since SCVO have been advising and supporting charities of all sizes to use AI responsibly since May 2023, you might wonder why it’s taken a while to finalise our own...
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Can you have a strategy for an emerging, frothy technology like AI? Yes, you can, but it needs to be realistic and flexible. In this blog, I’ll highlight some of the areas you should cover. We’ll expand on this in our AI guide for the voluntary sector.Â
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Generated by Stable Diffusion. Prompt: a photograph of an astronaut riding a horse Tools like ChatGPT, Google Bard and Stable Diffusion have been hitting the headlines since the start of the year. Why all the hype about generative AI? We’re not all going to get replaced or turned...
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