Episode description

📢  “If someone’s going to build a better world, you need to ask them two critical questions; One: for whom? And two: in what time scale?”

In this episode, we hear Richard Pharro, CEO of APMG International, talk to Adam Thilthorpe, Digital Specialist and Director for Professionalism at BCS, about using AI ethically, reshaping education, and the impact of technology.

The digital era has changed the trajectory of the future and Adam begins by explaining the skills we need to acquire, and the skills we can adapt, to be prepared for the digital age. 

Richard and Adam talk about the challenges that come with the rapid scaling of technology and the unintended consequences of mass demoralization; with Adam drawing on cases like Snapchat’s sexual exploitation epidemic to show what can happen if we don’t ask the right questions when dealing with the expansion of technology. 

Adam tells us that in the best-case scenario expanding technologies can “help us advance the human cause”, but this will only happen if we are asking the right questions… and installing the right limitations. 

Listen in as Adam poses questions about data collection and speaks on how the data we share - and how we share it - will continue to shape the public sector. When speaking of the behaviour changes in the intersection of advertising monopolies, regarding accessing data, he asks “Why is it we don’t trust our local council but we do trust Facebook?

We finish the episode by asking Adam what 3 things he knows now that he wishes he knew when starting his career - he answers:  

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1. Don’t underestimate the pace of change 

2. There are huge opportunities in the public task 

3. Understand, and execute application

This episode urges us to make sure we’re asking the right questions when it comes to working in the ever-expanding digital age. 

Links:   

🔗   Connect with Adam: linkedin.com/in/adamthilthorpe

📝  Find out more about how an AI Certification can help you advance your career: apmg-international.com/product/artificial-intelligence-ai  

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