Following a second, brief Appreciative Interview, participants again formed small working groups to identify the key themes emerging from their dreams for an AI community in Australia:
- A village – structural and permeable, learning for leaders
- Active, energetic
- Appreciate many ways
- Build critical mass – infuse AI in everything; accessible
- Catalyst and facilitating agent for generative leadership and succession change
- Check the egos in at the door!
- Connection
- Diverse and inclusive
- Ego-less brand and identity
- Engaging online, face to face, e-journal, e-list
- Face to face and virtual
- Flexibility (how to engage, how much to contribute)
- Framework free of anxiety
Generosity: financial, knowledge & learning, pro-bono (work to support others)- Inclusive and collaborative
- Inspiration and openness
- Model AI philosophy in the community e.g. open doors for people, mentoring, embrace diversity
- Peace and sustainability
- Physical and virtual
- Practitioners embody unconditional respect, empathic, emergent list
- Pull, not push
- Recognise capabilities
- Safe place for diverse thinking and ways of knowing
- Simple and sustainable
- Structure supporting purpose (legal accountability structure if handling $$s)
Structure/Flexibility (balanced)- Valuing people
- Visible specialist centre
- We should be exploring as an AI community: venue/event; web group and face to face; ‘voice’ of an Australian group
- Welcoming of all points of view and all experiences
- ? the world! Adversarial –> constructive (Schools!)