AI workshops for government
See Dr Duignan’s media comment on chatbots and AI. Impacts on politics, education, jobs, government and society.
government agencies
Learning to Love the Bot™ What Chatbots Mean For Your Agency - a one-hour presentation (or more extended workshop) covering the 14 areas of impact that AI chatbots will have that government agencies need to be thinking about now. The focus is on the broad implications for your organisation, your customers or clients, your staff, the impact on your strategic positioning as an agency, and for society as a whole. AI chatbots are about to transform the economic, social landscape and political landscape; your agency needs to be thinking urgently about how to quickly adapt to the new AI chatbot-saturated world. We will also cover interesting possibilities arising from using AI chatbots to empower government clients and communities. This technology is changing rapidly month by month, and your organisation needs to be ready.
Feedback from Learning to Love the Bot™ Workshops by Dr Paul Duignan
'Excellent.'
’I like that the presentation leads to a lot of thinking about impacts of AI and how we can handle/embrace it.'
'Very interesting presentation. This was a great introduction to raise awareness about ChatGPT and how fast it is growing, and its implications (thinking about policies, psychological effects).’
’So interesting. Super fast and full of interesting insights.'
'In such a short time, there was so much - thank you".
’A great intro to chatbots - super interesting - there's a lot to process!'
’Great, learnt a lot, going to investigate now, but I am a bit freaked out.'
So much information delivered in easily digestible, relevant chunks.'
Dr Paul Duignan’s experience in Technology impact
During his career, Paul has been a researcher on the impact of new technology, involved in discussions regarding the effects of new technologies such as the introduction of electronic barcoding into NZ, involved in national IT workforce planning discussions, involved in presentations, training and promotion of the use of the internet and web to groups in the health and community sector and groups such as the NZ Institute of Directors. Did strategy work on how the NZ government should move to more digital interaction with citizens and undertook work for the Royal Society of NZ on public consultation regarding the management of technological risk. He was involved in setting up a system of Access Grids in NZ universities (early multimedia internet-connected hubs for research on the NZ KAREN academic network) and ran a startup developing award-winning strategy visualisation software. Wider experience includes: facilitating strategy work across all sectors. He was the director of the Labour Research Unit at the NZ Parliament. He has also been a Fulbright Senior Scholar at the Urban Institute in Washington D.C. In addition, Paul has undertaken consulting work internationally, for instance with international organisations such as the IMF.