On Wednesday 14 January 2026 at 2pm we will hold the fifteenth meeting of a community of practice as part of our project on Giving communities a powerful say in public sector data and AI projects.

On Wednesday 19 November 2025 at 2pm we held the thirteenth meeting of a community of practice as part of our project on Giving communities a powerful say in public sector data and AI projects.

On Wednesday 14 January 2026 at 2pm we will hold the fifteenth meeting of a community of practice as part of our project on Giving communities a powerful say in public sector data and AI projects.

On Wednesday 19 November 2025 at 2pm we held the thirteenth meeting of a community of practice as part of our project on Giving communities a powerful say in public sector data and AI projects.

“I want to offer another vision of human compatibility in AI: one that embraces a thick and demanding world of human capacity, social complexity, and local politics in place of the thin, pliable, universalizing world of individual preferences.” Jacob G. Foster; From Thin to Thick: Toward a Politics of Human-Compatible AI. Public Culture 1 September 2023; 35 (3 (101)): 417–430. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-10742593 The distinction between “thick” and “thin” modes of involving communities around (data and) AI is useful. “Thin” involvement skims off surface-level instincts and data from frictionless transactions, while “thick” involvement demands thoughtful, complex, nuanced and stretching engagement. In reality we need both.