{"id":1,"date":"2026-08-25T15:45:51","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T14:45:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/aiteam\/?p=1"},"modified":"2026-08-25T15:47:49","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T14:47:49","slug":"hello-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/aiteam\/2026\/08\/25\/hello-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to AI@Kent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Hello, and welcome to the AI@Kent blog. <img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-21 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/aiteam\/files\/2026\/07\/ChatGPT-Image-Aug-25-2026-03_39_08-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"351\" height=\"234\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">We help staff and students make informed choices about artificial intelligence: when to use it, how to use it responsibly and when another approach may work better.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Our team has two connected areas of work:<\/p>\n<ul data-spread=\"false\">\n<li>developers who build and support AI tools and features; and<\/li>\n<li>trainers who support education, teaching and learning, research, and AI literacy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">We provide training, practical advice and resources. We may recommend an existing tool, help develop an approach or explore whether something new could be built.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Our goals are to build confidence, support responsible AI adoption and prepare Kent\u2019s staff and students for an AI-enabled workplace. Kent staff can visit our <a href=\"https:\/\/livekentac.sharepoint.com\/sites\/AIKent\">AI@Kent SharePoint pages<\/a> or contact us to arrange a conversation or training session.<\/p>\n<h2>What you will find here<\/h2>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">We created this blog to share more of the work happening in our team and in the university.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">We plan to tell you more about:<\/p>\n<ul data-spread=\"false\">\n<li>case studies about university staff using AI in interesting ways;<\/li>\n<li>summaries of our webinars and videos;<\/li>\n<li>perspectives on important AI news;<\/li>\n<li>book recommendations and reading lists;<\/li>\n<li>explanations of Kent\u2019s AI principles and training materials;<\/li>\n<li>our team and our work behind the scenes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Keep in touch<\/h2>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Follow the blog and <a href=\"https:\/\/lists.kent.ac.uk\/sympa\/info\/ai-at-kent\">subscribe to the AI@Kent newsletter<\/a> for news, resources and events.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Please also say hello in the comments and tell us how you use\u2014or choose not to use\u2014AI.<\/p>\n<p><em>This post was co-written with help from generative AI and closely supervised, reviewed and edited by a member of the AI@Kent team.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello, and welcome to the AI@Kent blog. We help staff and students make informed choices about artificial intelligence: when to use it, how to use &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/aiteam\/2026\/08\/25\/hello-world\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":86938,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/aiteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/aiteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/aiteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/aiteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/86938"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/aiteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/aiteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/aiteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions\/24"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/aiteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/aiteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/aiteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}