Agents, Assistants and Awareness Raisers: Next Steps for AI in Think Tank Comms

Featuring

Erica Schoder, Executive Director, R Street Institute

Joscha Wirtz, AI Lead, Sociopúblico

Stacy Rosenberg, Director, Digital Strategy, Pew Research Center

Seth Rubenstein, Head of Engineering, Pew Research Center

Overview

AI has already started changing how think tank comms teams write, publish and help people find research.

The more difficult question is what comes next.

As tools move from writing assistants towards agents that can carry out whole tasks, comms teams will need to think differently about how research is produced, distributed and discovered — and about which parts of the work still need human judgement.

That’s the focus of the next Wonkcomms DC Breakfast Club.

WonkComms is Soapbox’s global community for people working across think tanks, research, policy and communications. Since 2013, it has brought practitioners together in London, Washington DC, Berlin and other cities for practical, peer-led conversations about the realities of the work.

For this breakfast, we’ll be joined by colleagues from Sociopúblico and Pew Research Center to look at where AI is genuinely earning its place in think tank communications, where the limitations still are, and what teams should be preparing for now.

Breakfast provided!