Space for BFT Members to discuss how they are using, avoiding or seeing the landscape around their enterprise change due to AI tools
AI is having a monumental impact on the way we work, our individual behaviours and expectations, and the context around our work. As BFT Members, lets talk about it.
For many people working in sustainable food and farming, AI can feel like a huge risk, which clashes with our mission and vision for a better future. For others, it’s a once in a generation opportunity that we can harness to our advantage. Then, there are the rest of us, who aren’t entirely sure what it means for us, our work and our communities.
Wherever we sit on this spectrum, whether we choose to use it as a tool in our own work or not, the rapid growth of AI use across society is already changing the world around us.
In the context of sustainable, independent food retail and wholesale, that could mean big changes around how people find you, what information they trust and the jobs that exist. It could also help you streamline tasks that take you away from the parts of your business you love most, and help you organise and understand large chunks of information.
Join us as we hold space for Better Food Traders' opinions, questions and thoughts on the use of AI in and around the sustainable, independent food sector.
By the end of the session, participants will:
- Understand how peers across the Better Food Traders network are currently using (or avoiding) AI.
- Surface opportunities, challenges and unknowns that AI presents for your enterprise.
- Explore how AI might shift your mission and the wider context around all of our work.
- Identify burning questions and priority areas for deeper learning.
Key things to know:
- This first conversation will be a BFT member-only space. If you are not a BFT member but would like to join the conversation, become a member or write to us and we’ll explore hosting a wider conversation.
- As an organisation, BFT are developing our position on AI. This session will play one part of how we listen to members to inform this.
- This session will be hosted by Melissa Ray, Membership Manager at Better Food Traders. Melissa previously worked towards enabling more responsible and ethical technology in academia, arts and grantmaking sector. She holds an MSc in Digital Anthropology and has experience working to support people and communities to build their confidence and capabilities to understand when to, and when not to, use digital technologies. This session was developed in conversation with Laura Acaster, BFT Member and Director at Daughters Bakery, Sheffield.
