"AI feels like a real team member now.”

We’re in week 4 of 6 of our first ‘Get Good with AI’ summer school.

25 creatives, entrepreneurs, and campaigners have been learning how to set-up ‘team-mates’ (Data Scientist, Marketing Manager, Research Guru, Business Coach etc…) to help them fly.

There are a handful of places left on cohort 2 starting July 31st.

Here’s what they’re saying…

“The shift from skepticism to excitement happened fast. Doing things manually is starting to feel like such a waste of time 😂.” Christina, Circular Economy Consultant

“Ace to be part of cohort ONE 😎 Already learnt so much and putting it in action!” Lorna, CMO

“My team are getting so much out of this course. They might be secretly planning to replace me with an agent 😁.” Sarah, Impact Finance

“I can confirm this is a super course. The team are extremely helpful and responsive to questions and there is a great pace with a bias to doing stuff not just talking... 😍” Henry

Katherine Sladden, Founder of the Breakthrough Accelerator for campaigners:

Here a few early reflections on why non-profit leaders need to lean into AI:

1. AI can be game-changing for startup founders: When you're a founder you do everything from funding applications to social media scheduling to the 'actual work'. In just a few weeks I've found a bunch of routine tasks AI can speed up and it's giving me back hours in my week. Hours I can use to think strategically about my vision and how to drive it forward.

2. We can programme AI to reflect OUR values: A huge lightbulb moment for me has been learning you can train and embed the leadership principles & ways of working into your AI system. This could be game changing if non-profits embrace this.

3. Learning together is powerful: I'm doing this course with my human team-mate, Jerome Neil. Experienced managers bring developed voice and strategic thinking. Younger team members are more native with the tech. This moment reminds us we have so much to teach each other.

Of course I still have serious concerns about AI's impact on inequality and who gets left behind in this tech revolution. As campaigners, we need to ensure AI works for the benefit of society, not just the wealthy tech bro's.

Christina de Potiers, Circular Economy Consultant:

I haven’t been the most enthusiastic adopter of tech and AI up to now. I’m interested, but there's a steep learning curve and i'm busy. Plus there are the very relevant downsides of AI: energy consumption, environmental impacts, job displacement, the loss of human connection.
But I bit the bullet and joined a course called 'Getting Good with AI', why not, its only 6 weeks.

And starting to learn how to work with AI as a sole trader has been a revelation.

The course is teaching me to build custom agents tailored to my specific goals and knowledge, not just generic ChatGPT conversations.

I spent the last rainy Sunday tackling my homework and doing tasks that have been sitting on my list for months because they felt too overwhelming to approach alone.

The shift from skepticism to excitement happened fast. Doing things manually is starting to feel like such a waste of time 😂

For small business owners juggling multiple priorities and wearing all the hats, I believe this could be transformational to build capacity and reduce burnout if we can find the time to learn.