Thinking Partner
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Projects
Democratic Futures Cymru
We explore current and future challenges, and the democratic pathways to solutions.
- Analysing current and future challenges, emphasising democratic pathways to solutions.
- Engaging people through Democratic Futures Cymru events, publications and resources.
- Working on themed projects with a systems perspective, locally and across Wales.
- Exploring future possibilities that remain democratically open, rather than following powerful agendas.
Better AI Cymru
Shaping AI for a democratic, sustainable Wales. Civil society, academics, policymakers and practitioners can ask not only what AI can do, but what it should do and for whom.
AI is already part of everyday life, workplaces and public services, but open discussion in Wales has yet to catch up. The ownership and assumptions behind AI development have had little public scrutiny, while proposed large-scale data centres raise questions about energy, environmental impact and data sovereignty.
Questions we are asking
- How do civil society groups use AI, and how could they use it better?
- Have Welsh Government AI plans received critical scrutiny?
- Could AI be developed in Wales while respecting a moratorium on new data centres?
- Can AI be appropriate technology grounded in wellbeing, equality and sustainability?
We contribute to public debates on AI in Wales and work with civil society, community organisations and public bodies to develop purposeful applications grounded in systems thinking and the Well-being of Future Generations (Wales) Act.
Themes we explore
- Reframing AI for a democratic Wales and asking how we can take back control.
- Diversity, inclusion and equality, and how AI might help advance them.
- AI and the environment, including energy and resource use and data-centre expansion.
- Appropriate technology and connections with European debates on AI, social impacts and democracy.
Sustainable Futures
We take a systems view of wellbeing and sustainability, exploring how choices made today can support a fairer Wales and the wellbeing of future generations.
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