First Board Members Appointed to Lead Ada Lovelace Institute

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Announces the founding board of the Ada Lovelace Institute, a UK body established to ensure AI and data technologies serve societal interests — relevant to AI governance and oversight infrastructure.

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The Nuffield Foundation announced the first board members of the Ada Lovelace Institute, an independent research body funded at £5 million over five years. The Institute aims to ensure data and AI work for people and society through research, ethical guidance, and public engagement. It was established in partnership with major UK institutions including the Alan Turing Institute, Royal Society, and Wellcome Trust.

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•Ada Lovelace Institute established by Nuffield Foundation with £5M over 5 years to ensure AI and data work for people and society.
•First board includes experts in philosophy, internet studies, data science, and public policy.
•Institute will guide ethical practice in AI/data development and promote informed public understanding.
•Partners include Alan Turing Institute, Royal Society, British Academy, Royal Statistical Society, and Wellcome Trust.
•Huw Price, co-founder of Centre for the Study of Existential Risk, is among the board members appointed.

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 The Nuffield Foundation has appointed the first board members to lead the strategic development of the Ada Lovelace Institute, an independent research and deliberative body with a mission to ensure data and Artificial Intelligence (AI) work for people and society.

 The appointments follow an open recruitment process overseen by the Executive Chair of the Ada Lovelace Institute, Sir Alan Wilson. The new board members are:

 
 Alix Dunn , a social entrepreneur, advisor, and strategist specialising at the intersections of technology and impact.

 Helen Margetts , Professor of Society and the Internet at the Oxford Internet Institute, and Turing Fellow and Programme Director for Public Policy at The Alan Turing Institute.

 Huw Price , Bertrand Russell Professor of Philosophy, Academic Director of the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, and co-founder of the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk, University of Cambridge.

 Hetan Shah , Executive Director of the Royal Statistical Society and Visiting Professor at the Policy Institute, Kings College London.

 
 The board members each bring distinctive perspectives, skillsets, and networks. In addition to leading the strategic development of the Ada Lovelace Institute, the board will help to secure its long-term sustainability. Board members will also identify questions or projects relating to the use of data and AI for investigation and deliberation, and will take a leading role in the exploration of those questions through working groups.

 The Nuffield Foundation will appoint additional board members in 2019 to ensure representation from different sectors and disciplines.

 The Ada Lovelace Institute has been established by the Nuffield Foundation (with funding of £5 million over five years) in partnership with the Alan Turing Institute, the Royal Society, the British Academy, the Royal Statistical Society, the Wellcome Trust, Luminate, techUK and the Nuffield Council on Bioethics.

 The Institute will promote informed public understanding of the impact of AI and data-driven technologies on different groups in society. It will guide ethical practice in the development and deployment of these technologies, and will undertake research and long-term thinking to lay the foundations for a data-driven society with well-being at its core.

 Sir Alan Wilson said: 

 “The Ada Lovelace Institute aims to be the leading independent authority on ensuring that data and AI wo

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