What we’re building, and where.
AI Citizen works directly with students, helping them develop the judgement to navigate a world increasingly shaped by artificial intelligence. This isn’t a one-off workshop or an add-on to the curriculum – it’s a sustained programme, built to change how young people think about themselves and their choices, not just what they know about the technology.
The programme
Our work runs across secondary education, meeting students at the points where these questions matter most – as they’re forming their sense of identity, weighing up their futures, and making decisions that AI is already quietly shaping.
Sessions are built around a simple structure: as AI increases what’s possible, new risks emerge alongside it, and those risks demand a human response. Students leave with sharper judgement, not just new information.
Capability
What AI now makes possible.
Risk
What emerges alongside it.
Human response
The judgement needed to meet it.
A centre of excellence
AI Citizen is establishing a centre of excellence in West Yorkshire, a region with a genuine claim to this kind of work. It’s already the UK’s second-largest centre for banking, accounting and legal services outside London, and within the region, sectors like tech are growing 125 per cent faster than the national average.
This is a part of the country that has been here before: when the Industrial Revolution reshaped work and society faster than anyone could keep pace with, it was this region that named the human cost and built the response, from factory reform to entirely new models of how people could live alongside industrial change. We’re building on that instinct, and increasingly the economics back it up.
What’s next
The ambition here is deliberately staged.
Prove the model
With the students and educators we’re already working with, building the evidence for what actually prepares young people for a world alongside AI, not what merely sounds like it should.
Regional reach
Across West Yorkshire, with a particular focus on making sure this isn’t a privilege reserved for a handful of schools.
National centre of excellence
And partnerships with universities and researchers who want to build the evidence base alongside us.
Rather than announcing all of that at once, we’re building it in order and showing our working as we go.
If you want to know more about what participation looks like, get in touch.