How to Get Started with AI: A Comprehensive Guide

What’s going to add 14% to global GDP by 2030? AI will according to this report from PwC. And the latest data from Statista show major growth in AI, driven by the increasing demand for AI-powered solutions. But we know most organisations are still in the foothills of their journey with AI. So we’re here to help you get started with AI in your organisation, without losing sight of your values.

Want to know how to get started with AI? Ask us!

At AI Governance, we believe Responsible AI is the key to unlocking its true potential for businesses like yours. Our Business Consultancy service guides you through the entire journey, from learning the basics of what AI is, to developing ideas to use it and putting them into action through our 10 steps to getting started with AI. And we make sure you don’t lose sight of your values, the potential risks AI can bring. Take a look at how we support leaders, technical teams and provide AI literacy for everyone across the business.

Empowering Non-Technical Leaders in Responsible AI

Non-technical leaders are expected to understand and champion the responsible use of AI, but how do you learn to do this? Our training programmes provide you with the essential knowledge and practical tools to navigate the ethical considerations surrounding AI implementation. Our interactive online and in-person workshops demystify all seven components of Responsible AI without jargon, enabling you to make informed decisions and foster a culture of responsible AI within your organisation. We’ll empower you to:

Understand the ethical implications of AI: Grasp the potential benefits and risks associated with AI, and learn how to identify and address ethical challenges
Promote Responsible AI practices: Develop strategies to embed the Responsible AI framework across your AI use
Build trust and confidence: Foster a culture of Responsible AI that promotes trust among your employees, customers and stakeholders.
Lead with confidence: Gain the knowledge and skills to confidently guide your organisation to get started with AI and move on to ethical and responsible AI implementation.

Contact us to become a leader in responsible AI, ensuring your organisation harnesses the power of this technology while upholding ethical principles and societal values.

Equip your technical teams with the knowledge and skills to build ethical AI

Our training programmes combine foundational knowledge of responsible AI principles with practical application and interactive in-person and online workshops. We help developers identify how to incorporate the seven keys to Responsible AI in their work and build robust governance frameworks. Contact us to empower your team to build trustworthy AI solutions.

AI literacy for everyone

Using AI wisely, and understanding its impact is no longer a luxury, but a necessity. The EU AI Act requires all businesses using or developing high-risk AI tools to have an effective AI literacy programme. And even businesses outside this act need to ensure their teams don’t put the business at risk. Our AI literacy programme empowers everyone in your organisation, regardless of their technical background, to confidently navigate the age of AI. Through engaging workshops and accessible resources, we break down complex concepts and explore the practical implications of using AI.

This programme will give your team the tools to:

Demystify AI: Learn what AI is, how it works and its potential impact on your role and industry
Identify opportunities: Discover how AI can enhance productivity, improve decision-making and drive innovation
Address ethical concerns: Understand the importance of Responsible AI development and usage, including issues like bias and fairness
Embrace the future: Develop the confidence and knowledge to thrive in an increasingly AI-driven world

Equip your entire organization with the knowledge to embrace AI responsibly and unlock its potential. Contact us to bring AI literacy to your workplace.

Beyond expertise, we offer partnership

We are passionate about helping leaders like you use AI as a force for good and we want to be partners in your Responsible AI journey. We collaborate closely with you, providing ongoing guidance and support from getting started with AI to growing confidence and skills.

Ready to unlock the power of responsible AI for your business?

Here’s what happened at one of our recent Board development sessions

We tailored the session to the stage the Directors were at; some wanted to know the basics of how AI works, whilst others were keen to get into the details of the risks using AI could bring.

After covering the basics to get everyone on the same page, we facilitated the discussion about how the business could use AI and posed challenging questions like:

Who’s the Board champion who can bring real clout to your plans to use AI?
How are you going to tackle the tricky grey areas of AI ethics?
How will you consult with people across the business (and outside) to gather views and disseminate the Board’s decisions on the guardrails you put in place from the top?

It was a great presentation, thoughtful and thought-provoking in equal measure, which prompted lots of discussions on the tables, and subsequently over drinks. You left people with a clear sense of the opportunities offered by AI as well as realistic sense of some of the threats, cutting through the hyperbole which has been such a feature of recent media coverage.

Ready to start using AI – time to explore the risks

Now they were ready with ideas to start using AI we worked on the risks their plans for AI could bring and how to mitigate them, using our Responsible AI framework. At the end of the session they had a comprehensive plan for how to move forward with using AI responsibly, including areas to work on such as:

Ethics – you could allow your algorithms to play on human psychology and manipulate people into behaving in certain ways, but should you?
Bias – is your data truly representative or could it contain bias?
Data privacy – do you have genuine, informed consent to use personal data?
Transparency – how do the algorithms in your model weight the data? Are outcomes clear and transparent or black box?
Explainability – can you explain how your AI models work? Who should you be informing?
Regulations – are you complying with regulations (which could include GDPR, the UK Age Appropriate Design Code, the EU AI Act and proposed regulations in the UK, US and other jurisdictions)?
Safety and cyber security – will your model work reliably in all circumstances and is the data – including new data being consumed by the model – safe and securely held?
Diversity and inclusivity – is your AI application inclusive by design and does it empower everyone?

“The ethical issues that arise from AI … require expertise and insights across a wide range of disciplines, from technology and regulatory compliance to philosophy, psychology, and sociology—and everything in between.”
Deloitte AI Institute

Why use AI Governance?

We’ve been in your shoes, leading dynamic businesses and not-for-profit organisations. Couple this with our hands-on expertise in Artificial Intelligence and Data Science, and you can see that we have the experience to understand the pressures on you to act fast and bring strategic and practical advice to your team.

These Questions for Boards give you a flavour of the discussion you need to have in the Boardroom. We can help you work through the complexities to get answers that are right for your business.

Get in touch to discuss how we can help you to set up appropriate scale AI and data governance from scratch and ensure it’s in the Goldilocks-zone – just right for your organisation.