Explainable AI: ICO and The Alan Turing Institute open consultation on first piece of AI guidance

3 December 2019 by Carl Wiper, Group Manager, Information Commissioner's Office

This week the Information Commissioner’s Office and The Alan Turing Institute have launched a consultation on their co-badged ExplAIn guidance….

Data skills for all

29 November 2019 by Dr Vanessa Pittard, Deputy CEO, Mathematics in Education and Industry (MEI)

In September, the Royal Society and STEM Learning held a workshop at the National STEM Learning Centre in York, Data…

Equality, diversity and inclusion in 2019: the good, the bad and the bigoted

29 October 2019 by Dr Jess Wade, Postdoctoral Researcher, Imperial College London; Dr Ben Britton, Senior Lecturer and Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellow, Imperial College London; Dr Clara Nellist, Excellence Initiative Fellow, Radboud University; Professor Rachel Oliver, Professor of Materials Science, University of Cambridge Dr Brian Patton, Strathclyde Chancellor's Fellow, University of Strathclyde

In the year since the Royal Society’s Research culture: Changing expectations conference there have been considerable efforts to improve equality,…

Moving from Data Governance Principles to Practice: Auto Insurance

28 October 2019 by Dr Adrian Weller, Programme Director, AI, The Alan Turing Institute; Principal Research Fellow, Cambridge and Dr Mahlet Zimeta, Senior Policy Adviser, the Royal Society

The automobile insurance sector sits at the intersection of the automobile and insurance sectors, which both stand to be transformed…

It takes a network to defeat a network: tech in the fight against financial crime

19 September 2019 by Nick Cook, Director of Innovation, Financial Conduct Authority

Nick Cook is the first Director of the Innovation division at the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), the UK’s independent financial…