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Inversity, the skills startup equipping British students with applied AI skills, has partnered with Andrew Jack, Global Education Editor at the Financial Times for a nationwide AI challenge. Over the course of 4 weeks, 400 students worked on a challenge set by Inversity and Andrew Jack: to use AI to build software that helps young people to better engage with quality media, and develop their critical thinking.
The winner, 17-year-old Ahmad Adebowale from Liverpool Maths School has created a prototype named Skewdle that offers a gamified approach to learn how to identify misinformation in online media and instead engage with genuine high-quality news content.
“We set our learners the world’s most interesting and important problems each month, and Andrew raised the bar with this one. It was fascinating to see the AI-powered ideas that learners came up with: from applications which gamified the process of reading news articles from different viewpoints, to web browser plug-ins to help identify disinformation, to the winning entry, ‘Skewdle’, which looks like a Wordle-for-media-literacy skills in the making!” said Dr James Kuht MBE, CEO and co-founder of Inversity.
“Misinformation is an existential problem with dangerous consequences that we have a collective responsibility to fight, and it’s top of the agenda for both the Financial Times and Inversity to tackle. There were many excellent responses to the challenge. Skewdle was particularly impressive due to its technical maturity, user-friendly design and interactive features. Ahmed had also conducted important market research to put his invention in the right context of what users need,” said Andrew Jack, Global Education Editor, Financial Times.
Inversity was launched by Dr James Kuht MBE in September 2023. Kuht served as a Doctor in the Royal Air Force before transitioning to pioneer AI applications at No.10 Downing Street and becoming the first-ever Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of a specialist military unit. Realising AI’s potential to solve real-world problems, James Kuht founded Inversity to provide knowledge workers and students across the UK with engaging, practical AI education that goes beyond textbook theory.
