Guest blog from Yazhmozhi V M Vasuki Murugesan at the University of Dundee. Find out about her work creating a novel spell check for the Tamil language.

To celebrate International Women’s Day 2023 we wanted to shine a light on the women who work in the world of AI and find out more about their interesting and varied journeys to becoming leaders in their field.

We are very excited to announce our Scottish schools competition: Me, Myself & AI. We are inviting school classes in Scotland to investigate how Artificial Intelligence impacts their life and share their findings as a piece of creative work which will be displayed at the Scottish AI Summit 2023.

In this episode of Turing's Triple Helix we caught up with the progress of the sixth cohort of the Edinburgh University AI Accelerator programme run by Edinburgh Innovations.

We are super excited to announce that this project kicked off in late September with a series of workshops with schools in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Stirlingshire and Shetland!

The Unlocking the Value of Data programme has been building momentum since its inception in March this year find out more about it in this guest blog.

Guest blog from Mhairi Aitken, Ethics Fellow at The Alan Turing Institute.

Guest blog from Chuks Ododo Community Connecting Manager at DataKirk.

This session introduced the concepts behind Natural Language Processing (NLP), that is, using machines to analyse, understand and generate language.

To observe Pride month we ran an event on Human Centred AI Design and how it can positively impact marginalised communities, particularly the Queer community.

In this episode of Turing's Triple Helix, we caught up with members of the NatureScot team to discuss their work using artificial intelligence to benefit the environment and society.

Open and transparent collaboration has been our focus for the Scottish AI Playbook from the very beginning of its journey, and with this in mind we would encourage the Scottish AI community to get involved in the development of the Playbook.

May is Mental Health Awareness Month and in this episode of Turing’s Triple Helix we look at whether or not artificial intelligence can help us improve our mental health.

On the 30th of March, the AI Strategy team hosted their inaugural Scottish AI Summit. A combination of keynotes, workshops, panels, and exhibitors, arranged in a hybrid format, enabling attendees to participate worldwide.

On 30 March 2022, the Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation published the findings from the first wave of their survey to monitor how attitudes towards data and AI vary over time.

Scotland’s AI Strategy committed to two key actions to ensure civil society’s full participation in the work of the Scottish AI Alliance in the delivery of the strategy. Here is a summary of our related activity so far.

Guest blog from Alisha Arora a passionate 15-year-old leveraging AI emphasising the importance of making AI transparent and accessible to youth.

Three companies begin exploration phase of CivTech 6’s challenge around trust and agency over AI use in public sector with regards to children and families

Earlier this year we asked people across Scotland – and further afield – what they thought about the proposals in the strategy scoping document. A consultation on the proposals ran from February to May, and attracted 83 responses from a wide range of 29 individuals and 52 organisations. You can read the findings in our Consultation Report.

We are looking for participants for a series on of online digital workshops in June 2020!