Your persona
Your responses indicate you’ve got a solid grounding in the essential concepts, applications, and governance of Artificial Intelligence.
Consider how you can build on your existing knowledge and experience to lead and influence more advanced AI initiatives and promote responsible AI adoption within your department while fostering a culture of experimentation and innovation.
Build your skills and knowledge
Lead efforts to ensure that ethical considerations are deeply embedded in your department's AI projects, including bias, fairness, and transparency issues.
Dive into the applications of AI in public policy, understanding its potential to address complex governmental challenges and advocate for its adoption.
Consider applications by developing and deploying AI solutions to solve real-world problems. Start by identifying a piece of work that could be addressed or enhanced by leveraging AI.
Consider the end-user. How might you need to communicate departmental use of AI with the public you serve?
Familiarise yourself with any existing governance frameworks and promote upskilling around responsible AI practices as professional development for your team.
Carve out time for professional development. Diarise a chunk of time each week where you can take an Apolitical course, explore community articles, or anything else that aligns with your motivations.
Create a community of practice
Think carefully about your network or who you work with. Can you identify anyone who might be a source of information or inspiration for further developing your knowledge, skills and abilities in this area? An informal chat about their work could help bring the context to life.
Set up a structured AI skills development program for your team, encompassing both technical and ethical aspects of AI. Promote a culture of collaborative learning by holding sessions for team members to experiment.
Share this assessment with peers. Create a community of practice where you can discuss your outcomes and strategise which priorities might align with ongoing initiatives and objectives.
Keep exploring
If you’re looking for inspiration for structured skill development, take a look at our Learning Plans where we have stitched together disparate educational resources into rich, diverse, cohesive and enlightening learning journeys.
Artificial Intelligence is a hot topic on Apolitical. As someone in a position of leadership and/or people management, it could be helpful to build up a picture of what colleagues across the world are considering as they build up best practices for their teams. Take some time to explore what's out there, and consider engaging with the article creator by using the comment function. Here's the red tape holding back government AI could be a good place to start.
Apolitical hosts events with thought-leaders discussing a variety of topics — including AI. Keep an eye out for what’s upcoming, and in the meantime, you can catch up on AI-centred recordings from past events, such as: How public servants & policymakers can prepare for the age of AI.
You might feel ready to dive into a piece of structured learning. Our Fundamentals of AI for Government course could be an excellent place to start.
What's next?
Not sure if this is the right persona for you? This diagnostic and its suggested outcome have been designed for illustrative purposes and may not reflect your level of awareness or competency.
Find a guide to the statements covered plus the scenario questions here: AI Self-Assessment and Scenario Summaries.
Explore the other personae using the links below:
Leadership:AI Explorer, AI Consolidator, AI Trailblazer
Non-Leadership:AI Explorer, AI Consolidator, AI Trailblazer
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