Bad blogger! - no posts since last year and it's 1st April already. However, this blog post is not an April fool - I really am studying again.
Having done a Diploma in Direct Marketing, and a Diploma in Fundraising, I am now launching yet another learning experience - this time in AI.
Why, at my 'time of life'? Ignoring all the 'Plan your perfect retirement' messages and connections on LinkedIn, I'm not ready to hang up my fundraising boots just yet. Why AI? Because it needs understanding and - in the third sector - we need to harness it for good.
There are many ethical considerations, not least of which is the amount of energy/water the systems that power AI use. As someone with a strong conservation background, this does concern me - but even more so it makes me want to use AI to produce good outcomes, not just a funny meme of me in cartoon format.
The course I am on is an Apprenticeship in Business Analysis, using AI. With Corndel and the Imperial College, I am going to (hopefully) get another diploma level qualification. But the qualification isn't the end goal - it's what I can do with it to make work easier (ergo better spend donor's money, ergo better serve our charitable aims). And that's what motivates me - why I want to keep working, and keep learning - even though my course takes me beyond my 'state retirement date' (assuming that the government doesn't change it again).
This course will take around 17 months, but at the end of it - whether I get a qualification or not, I will hopefully have another set of skills that I can use not just at work, but in other areas of my life too.
The picture may be AI, but the writing is 100% me.
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