As we look back on 2024 it’s been a year of uncertainty and volatility, at Careful Trouble we have also managed to find some glimmers of hope. This year in review includes a highlight from each month.

An overview of our approach to events at Careful Trouble.

A project for the Royal Academy of Engineering, on the role of engineering in solving wicked problems.

What we achieved this year and things that inspired us

In the evidence which we submitted to the House of Lords Digital and Communications Committee, we identified four key issues and risks associated with LLMs, which we felt required greater scrutiny from policymakers.

A new report commissioned by the Creative Industries PEC and MyWorld, exploring the future of the creative industries

A very short talk about how we won’t get ethical AI without also building a fairer, more equitable society.

We have had a great year this year making lots of Careful Trouble. This year in review includes our people and culture news, an overview of our Careful Industries foresight and strategic projects, and some highlights from Promising Trouble’s adventures in community tech.

A new report exploring how — and if — Web3 might be used to achieve the greatest global challenges.

This essay explore what infrastructures are needed to cultivate a more feminist, caring digital society.

Here are some of the readings that have caught our attention this month.

I read this post by Meg Conley this week and it stopped me in my tracks, particularly this sentence: “Care work is the anticipation of grief.” This post is a rumination on how that term applies to care in a very different context.

Understanding the ingredients for a foresight commons

A round up of some of the things we're reading (and watching) this month.

Promising Trouble and Power to Change hosted two workshops in May, kicking off our programme looking at Community Tech and shaping a major new funding programme.

A guide to how funders, civil society organisations and policymakers can use the Belonging, Care and Repair Foresight report.

Can civil society be a place for alternative anarchy?

How foresight can bring people together to solve big-picture problems.

Now is a good time to think about how we think about the future.

This is not so much a weeknote as a “two-year note” — an attempt to pull together the different strands of work we’re doing at Careful Industries and our (very new) not-for-profit arm, Promising Trouble and explain why we’re doing it.