Listen "AI Readiness Ep 16: Building AI fluency with McKinley Hayden"
Episode Synopsis
Andy Davis speaks with McKinley Hayden, Director of Data Value & Strategy at the Financial Times, about making AI readiness real in a newsroom where trust matters; they unpack the FT’s AI policy and organisation-wide fluency programme, a cross-functional transformation model and impact framework, and practical wins such as AskFT (built with Anthropic) and smarter comment moderation—alongside clear-eyed advice on avoiding hype, measuring value beyond “time saved”, and why governance and ethics must be owned in-house. Want to take part in our podcast series? Register your interest here - https://forms.office.com/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=vdocM8ZJ9EuonNXRdbLdTCzOze2Z6hdOoSA6HgNF3_lUMUQ3V0Q5Q1RER05LSVA0RllRSTlMNDQyVS4u&route=shorturl
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