Are you intrigued by the role artificial intelligence-enabled devices like phones, fitness trackers and smart speakers play in our lives?
Would you like to be part of the discussion around the ethics of AI technology?
#DiscussAI invites people across Ireland to explore, question, and shape the future of artificial intelligence together.
Join ADAPT’s programme of #DiscussAI events to find out more!
Recognised by the European Commission as a best practice in public engagement with science, #DiscussAI has engaged more than 80,000 members of the public and 150 researchers since 2021.
All elements of the programme have been created with and for diverse communities around Ireland to ensure inclusive learning and conversations.
#DiscussAI is a national conversation about Artificial Intelligence (AI), exploring AI’s impact on our lives and society.
Through #DiscussAI dialogue events and AI literacy programmes, ADAPT researchers are engaging individuals and communities across the Ireland in conversations that raise and answer questions on AI, and generate ideas for new research.
We would love to welcome you at one of our future events. Sign up to our mailing list to be the first to hear about upcoming opportunities.
View the #DiscussAI Campaign Report (pdf)
Think-ins are public forums that facilitate discussion and deliberation among citizens, researchers, industry professionals, and policymakers on the impact of Artificial Intelligence on individuals and society.
Think-Ins are open to everyone – you don’t need to have any prior knowledge of or experience with AI to get involved and have your say.
Keep an eye on our think-Ins micro-site for news of upcoming think-ins. The micro-site also provides guidelines for hosting your own think-in.
Post-primary teachers are invited to join a training initiative that will boost their AI literacy and help them empower their students to use AI critically. The training is developed by ADAPT and supported by Google. In-person workshops and a short online course equip teachers with essential AI knowledge and practical insights to navigate AI and guide students to use AI-powered tools safely and ethically. More than 350 teachers have completed the training since October 2024. Details of regional workshops for the 2025/2026 school year will be announced soon.
The All Ireland Linguistics Olympiad (AILO) introduces post-primary students to linguistics (i.e. the study of human language) and to the application of logic to problems of language understanding and translation. The goal is to develop students’ problem-solving skills and to inspire them to consider the fascinating range of careers at the intersection of computing, linguistics and language. More than 3,500 students in all 32 counties on the island of Ireland participate annually.
Sign up to host or attend a free STEAM linguistic problem-solving workshop in your school. Open all to all secondary schools on the island of Ireland.
AI in My Life is a teacher-led Transition Year classroom workshop series exploring AI, ethics and privacy. Teachers don’t need any prior knowledge of AI in order to deliver the programme. The course toolkits provide teachers with teaching resources and accompanying teacher guides. More than 5,000 students in 90 schools have completed workshops to date.
Our AI in My Life Ambassadors can visit your school if you’d like in-person support.
Age-Friendly AI is Ireland’s national AI literacy initiative for older adults. With support from leading ageing-focused community and civil society partners, the initiative aims to engage 60,000 older adults in dialogue around the role of AI in their lives and co-create AI literacy training for their peers.
The initiative reflects ADAPT’s passion for digital inclusion and ensuring that older adults have a strong voice in the development of AI.
The ‘Art or AI?’ Museum of Very Modern Art challenges you to spot if its artworks have been created by a human hand or generated by artificial intelligence.
AI-generated art tools like DALL-E, Midjourney and Stable Diffusion are changing how we view art and creativity. But as humans, how good are we at distinguishing a classic from an artwork generated by a machine? And what do generative artificial intelligence tools mean for art and culture?
A free Transition Year Linguistics module consisting of 10 topics covering topics such as phonetics, writing systems and language acquisition has been developed by the ADAPT All Ireland Linguistics Olympiad (AILO).
The module was funded by Post-Primary Languages Ireland and uses AILO puzzles so that students can get hands-on experience of linguistic problem-solving. This module formally introduces Linguistics to the Irish school curriculum for the first time.
DigiAcademy is an accessible digital skills education platform committed to universal design and co-creation and development of employment opportunities for people with intellectual disabilities as digital educators. The programme has worked in partnership with organisations and learners to co-design accessible content and digital experiences that reflect the real needs and voices of those often most digitally disenfranchised in our society.
DigiAcademy won the Inclusion in the Digital World category of the European Digital Skills Awards 2023.
#ExploreAI is a family-friendly exhibition that will be open to the public on Friday, 26th September between 4 – 8pm in the Douglas Hyde Gallery in Trinity College Dublin for START: European Researchers’ Night 2025.
Full programme coming soon.
Beta Festival explores the impact of emerging technologies on society with debates, live performances and interactive exhibitions at The Digital Hub and the surrounding area of Dublin 8 again this year. ADAPT is proud to be founding research partner for this, Ireland’s only festival of art and technology.
Full Programme to be announced
Science Week Ireland 2025 will take place from 10th – 16th November and will explore the theme ‘Then.Today.Tomorrow’.
2025 marks 30 years of Science Week, with the theme ‘Then.Today.Tomorrow’. After thirty years of learning and looking forward, now is our time and place to build a better future for us all.
ADAPT’s programme for Science Week 2025 will be announced soon.
Four talented post-primary students will represent Ireland at the International Linguistics Olympiad (IOL), taking place in Taiwan in July 2025.
The Irish team is comprises the top four students from the All Ireland Linguistics Olympiad (AILO), which is run by ADAPT at DCU. More than 3,500 students competed to make it onto the Irish team.
Older people have their say on technology use at a #DiscussAI Think-In at the Centre for Smart Ageing in Farranfore, County Kerry. The public discussion was intended to gauge the opinions and experiences of older people on digital technologies.
The discussion is part of the ongoing ADAPT Centre’s Citizens’ Think-Ins, which is an initiative that seeks to explore attitudes and adoption of the broad range of new technologies available to support active and healthy ageing in Ireland.
Check out ADAPT installations at BIAS: Built This Way at Science Gallery Dublin, Pearse Street, Dublin 2 until end of January 2022.
The exhibition interrogates how prejudice can move quickly from human to machine as algorithms and artificial intelligence systems are encoded by humans with very human values, preferences and predispositions.
For Science Week 2020, SignON presents an art-science event that combines artificial intelligence with Shakespeare. Alvean Jones and Lianne Quigley will perform some of the most iconic scenes from Shakespeare in Irish Sign Language for a unique audience of people and machines.
Artificially intelligent apps will watch the performance with you, so that you get to see what a machine sees when it watches theatre. The performance will be followed by a discussion on artificial intelligence and sign language machine translation. This event includes ISL interpreters.
