What is the Scottish AI Playbook?

The Scottish AI Playbook is an open, practical guide to how we do AI in Scotland. It is a shared and living asset, embodying Scotland’s AI Strategy ethos of openness, transparency and collaboration.

September 2024 sees the launch of a new playbook, providing foundational information about how we do AI in Scotland, along with a variety of targeted resources to support the AI implementation journey of businesses and organisations in Scotland.

Our Resources

Our initial suite of Playbook resources provides foundational information, skills and tools for businesses in Scotland to commence implementation of trustworthy, ethical and inclusive AI.

The Scottish AI playbook

Foundational information and guidance on how we do AI in Scotland, focused on supporting businesses and organisations to implement trustworthy, ethical and inclusive AI.

Introducing AI: A guide for businesses and organisations in Scotland

Covering the basics of AI for businesses and organisations in Scotland – what AI is, how it is used and where and when to implement it. Includes a step by step guide to getting your AI implementation journey started.

Jargon buster

A handy glossary of key terms and concepts related to AI, across a variety of settings such as research and technical development, academia and media

Our Mission

Scotland’s AI Strategy launched on 22 March 2021 with the vision for Scotland to become a world leader in the development and use of trustworthy, ethical and inclusive AI. By achieving this vision, AI will be enabled to contribute to making Scotland fairer, greener, more prosperous and outward looking. The Strategy committed to the development of the Scottish AI Playbook, an open and practical guide to how we do AI in Scotland. The Playbook introduces our vision, our principles and the practices we will adopt to realise our vision. The AI Playbook will become a shared and living asset, which will evolve as society and technologies change and we learn what works best. Through the AI Alliance, everyone will have opportunities to contribute, develop their AI skills and receive the support they need.

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Key Users

While researching and scoping the Scottish AI Playbook, extensive stakeholder engagement was undertaken. From this work, we identified key user groups for the Scottish AI Playbook. The user groups we identified were Researchers, Educators, Third Sector, Public Sector, Entrepreneurs/Start Ups and Business Users. This is not an exhaustive list of course but through our engagement work, these groups have been identified as potentially the most prominent users of the Playbook and we will focus on them for the first iteration

Researcher

Access information and resources to facilitate your work while contributing your own research.

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Educator

Access education resources and information for use in a variety of learning settings while creating awareness and interest in AI.

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Business User

Access resources to demystify AI and develop business cases for your industry.

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Public Sector

Access information and resources to support awareness raising and interest in AI, as well as resources to develop methods of evaluation.

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Third Sector

Access tools and guidance on how to raise awareness and interest in AI, and information on the impact of AI on services and the people who use them.

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Entrepreneur

Access information and resources on funding, prototyping, trialing and evaluating AI innovations.

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Would you like to be a part of our journey?

The Scottish AI Playbook has been developed in an open, transparent and collaborative process. It’s your Playbook, and we want to encourage you to contribute to it. We also don’t want to reinvent the wheel. If there is a useful resource that already exists, please send it in and we will signpost to it. We want the Playbook to be the one stop shop you go to for information and guidance for people planning to embark on their AI journey.

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