Workshop: Exploring New AI Tools for Campaigning
Over the last 6 months there has been a breakthrough in powerful new AI technologies, from Stable Diffusion to ChatGPT. These new tools will undoubtedly impact campaigning in all sorts of ways, from automatically drafting text, creating and editing images and video, analysing data and more. How can we use these tools in campaigning? How could they improve the way we work? Join us for an exploratory session as we put these new tools to the test!
In this workshop, you'll get hands-on experience with the latest AI technologies and explore how you might use them in your campaign work. You'll learn about prompt engineering and how to effectively guide the output of AI tools to get the results you want.
These tools are so new that nobody is an expert, and you don’t need to be able to code to access them, so all activists, organisers, and campaigners are welcome!
This is a practical workshop for people working in campaigning who are curious about how recent advances in AI tools might affect their work. You can attend in person, or remotely. To participate, you will need a laptop & charger, and a smartphone. The workshop is free, but we’d be grateful for a small donation to cover catering & heating.
The workshop will be facilitated by Hannah O’Rourke of Campaign Lab, a community of politically-minded progressive data scientists, researchers and activists who are working together to build new election tools and change the way we analyse and understand campaigning. To hear about future events, subscribe to Campaign Lab’s newsletter.
The workshop will be held at Newspeak House, an independent residential college founded in 2015 to study, nurture and inspire emerging communities of practice across civil society and the public sector in the UK. Our campus is located in London at the intersection of Brick Lane and Bethnal Green Road. The nearest underground station is Shoreditch High Street. The full address is: Newspeak House, 133-135 Bethnal Green Road, London, England, E2 7DG. For information on parking & accessibility, see newspeak.house/visit
Any questions, thoughts or ideas - do get in touch and say hi! hannah@campaignlab.uk