Event: Exploring digital life, technology change and attitudes to AI through national datasets (Data Resources Training Network)

The Data Resources Training Network welcomes you to the final webinar in their 2025 series, Exploring digital life, technology change and attitudes to AI through national datasets.

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The webinar will focus on secondary, quantitative data. The speakers will be:

• Athina Vlachantoni who will examine patterns of intergenerational digital contact before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. Drawing on data from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA) Wave Nine and the first wave of the ELSA COVID-19 Sub-study, this talk overviews shifts in digital communication use among older people during the pandemic and reflects on the gender gap and family relationship closeness. 
• Roshni Modhvadia who will discuss the Ada Lovelace Institute & The Alan Turing Institute’s Attitudes to AI datasets. These are two nationally representative surveys, the first conducted in 2022 and the second more recently in 2024. They explore the public’s attitudes to several varied uses of AI, from robotic care assistants to large language models. This talk will provide an overview of these datasets, some select findings, and offer methodological reflections on sampling, survey design, and how we understand representation in the context of quantitative research.  
• Mark Elliot who will cover a recently completed mixed methods project on the public perception of AI which combined the use of the Attitudes to AI dataset described in Roshni Modhvadia’s talk with a systematic review of research on this burgeoning topic. The critical importance of public trust in AI systems and organisations using AI is highlighted and the implications for public policy are discussed.

Event details

When: 19 November, 14:00-15:30 

Where: Online

Cost: Free

How to attend: Register online.