The publication of the UK’s National Artificial Intelligence (AI) Strategy represents a step-change in the national industrial, policy, regulatory, and geo-strategic agenda. Although there is a multiplicity of threads to explore, in terms of actionable steps, this text can be read primarily as...

Business reliance on algorithms are becoming ubiquitous, and companies are increasingly concerned about their algorithms causing major financial or reputational damage. High-profile cases include VW’s Dieselgate scandal with fines worth of $34.69B, Knight Capital’s bankruptcy (~$450M) by a...

Fragmentation of production across national boundaries results in global supply chains. To govern effectively in this type of economy requires a combination of public data with private initiatives (from business, banks and NGOs). But basically, there are three major challenges to that: a) data...

The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) timely call for consultation regarding their ‘Guidance on the AI auditing framework: Draft guidance for consultation' (February 2020) is part of a growing literature concerning the governance of Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems. The ICO's draft...

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) published an updated Ethically Aligned Design: A Vision for Prioritizing Human Well-being with Autonomous and Intelligent Systems (version 2). The document positions itself as a ‘vision' and this is reflected in the expansive scope...

The Committee on Standards in Public Life has recently published (February 2020) a review on ‘Artificial Intelligence and Public Standards'. Chaired by Lord Evans of Weardale KCB DL, the report takes a thorough look at the use of AI in public service through the framework of the Nolan...

This paper is about the report ‘Data Analytics and Algorithms in Policing in England and Wales’ written by the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) and commissioned by the Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation to study the use of data analytics by police force, with a focus on algorithmic...

Co-badged by the Information Commissioner's Office and The Alan Turing Institute, ‘Explaining decisions made with AI ' (2020) is an expansive excursion into the practical translation of calls for accountability and transparency in organisations that use AI systems. The report aims to give...

In the growing literature on Artificial Intelligence (AI) impact assessments, the literature on Data protection Impact Assessments is heavily referenced. Given the relative maturity of the data protection debate and that it has translated into legal codification, it is indeed a natural place to...

In February 2020 the EU published its white paper on ‘Artificial Intelligence: A European approach to excellence and trust’. This is likely to form the core of future policy and legislation within the EU and as such will have global impact on standards and norms. In this comment piece we...