Discuss AI with Your Community Groups 💬

Effort Level: ●○○○○ (Less than 1 hour)
Areas: Community

Summary

Your community is going to be impacted by artificial intelligence, so it makes sense to talk with your community about where AI is headed and how to prepare for it.

We would recommend starting out with a conversation with communities that you already are a part of and know well. This could be your local church, your local community center, a club, or just friends and family.

These conversations can be any level of formality and any number of people. Getting the ball rolling on these discussions is more important than absolutely nailing the first one!

Some questions that you might discuss include:

What aspects of AI could be helpful to your community?
What aspects of AI could be harmful to your community?
How does AI relate to your community’s broader goals and aspirations?
How are members of your community currently using AI in their own lives? How has this been helpful or harmful to them?
What do you think AI will be capable of doing in 1 year? 5 years?
Do you think AI has the potential to radically transform your lives? Why or why not?
Do you think AI has the potential to cause catastrophic damage on par with killing or disempowering all of humanity? Why or why not?

Next Steps

If you’ve had your first discussion and would like to continue, we would recommend that you and your community go through one of a variety of courses that cover where AI is today and where it’s going, see for example BlueDot Impact’s “Future of AI” course, which can be completed in just an hour or two. In fact it might make sense to go through that course together as a group!

Use this as a chance to revisit some of the questions that were listed initially and see if any of the answers to those questions have changed.

Feel free to reach out to us if you would like to have us come out and do a workshop for you!

Once that’s done, we would recommend one of the follow-up steps.