Trusting Machines?

Ali Hossaini

Visiting Research Fellow, King's College London, Co-director National Gallery X

Ali Hossaini blends art, technology and science. His video installation Ouroboros was acclaimed by the New York Times, which calls him ‘a biochemist turned philosopher turned television producer turned visual poet’. His work with RUSI uses biology to assess potential threats from AI, and he is a member of IEEE 7000 workgroups on ethical design of autonomous / intelligent systems. He serves as a Senior Visiting Research Fellow in the Department of Engineering at King’s College London and co-director of National Gallery X.

Dr Karen Brady

Training and Behaviour Consultant Guide Dogs

Karen has been with Guide Dogs as a Training & Behaviour Consultant since 2018. Her current work involves the development and delivery of scientifically evidenced training methodologies for our staff and volunteers. She provides expert advice and guidance to the organisation to shape the future and ensure Guide Dogs UK remain world leaders in assistance dog training. Her work ensures our dogs are trained to the highest possible standards using ethical scientific principles. This enables the organisation to support individuals with a visual impairment to live the life they choose through the Guide Dog Service.

Professor Sarvapali Ramchurn

UKRI TAS Hub Director

Sarvapali (Gopal) Ramchurn is a Professor of Artificial Intelligence, in the School of Electronics and Computer Science, at the University of Southampton.  He is also the director of the UKRI Trustworthy Autonomous Systems Hub, the focal point of the £33m UKRI Trustworthy Autonomous Systems Programme, a Turing Fellow, associated with the Alan Turing Institute, and a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology

Professor Tim Underwood

Cancer Research UK & Royal College of Surgeons of England Advanced Clinician Scientist Fellow within Medicine at the University of Southampton.

Tim Underwood is Professor of Gastrointestinal Surgery and Head of Cancer Sciences Academic Unit at the University of Southampton. He trained in London and the Wessex region before completing a PhD in Molecular Biology and taking up an NIHR Clinical Lectureship in Surgery in 2008. In 2011 he was awarded a Medical Research Council Clinician Scientist Fellowship and in the same year he won the Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland prize and gold medal for outstanding performance in the Intercollegiate Specialty Examinations (General Surgery). He became a Cancer Research UK & Royal College of Surgeons of England Advanced Clinician Scientist Fellow in April 2017.

Air Vice-Marshal Tamara Jennings OBE LLM MA RAF

DIRECTOR LEGAL SERVICES (RAF)

Following legal practice in Newcastle upon Tyne, Air Vice-Marshal Jennings commissioned into the RAF Legal Branch in 2000 and has enjoyed tours at HQ PTC, HQ STC, RAF Brize Norton and latterly at HQ Air in advisory, service complaints and operational legal roles.

Professor Michael Boniface

UKRI TAS Hub

Professor Michael Boniface is Director of the IT Innovation Centre within the School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, a Professorial Fellow of Information Systems, directs ECS Industrial Strategy translating fundamental research into practice, whilst leading ground-breaking research and innovation programmes.

He joined IT Innovation Centre and the University of Southampton in 2000 after several years at Nortel Networks developing technologies to support telecommunications interoperability. He has an international reputation as thought-leader pioneering the evolution of information technologies for tackling important business and societal challenges.

Professor Luca Viganò

Luca Viganò is a Professor at the Department of Informatics of King’s College London, UK, where he heads the Cybersecurity Group. His research focuses on formal methods and tools for the specification, verification and testing of cybersecurity and privacy.

Eleonora Harwich

Head of AI Collaborations, for NHSX

Eleonora is Head of Collaborations of NHSX’s AI Lab. Her work focuses on strategic engagement and communication with health and care professionals, the public and industry to support and share the work of the NHS AI Lab and the potential of AI. Prior to joining NHSX, she was Director of Research at Reform think tank, where she co-authored papers on AI in the NHS, the value of healthcare data, commercial models in healthcare and the regulation of data-driven technologies. She is a member of the British Standards Institution’s Committee on Artificial Intelligence and the London Hub Lead of One HealthTech, a grassroots community which seeks to promote diversity in healthtech

Age Chapman

Associate Professor of Computer Science, University of Southampton

Adriane Chapman, Chair of Human-Centred AI at the University of Southampton, is Director of the Center for Health Technologies. The goal of the Centre is to facilitate interdisciplinary research between technologists and clinicians. Her personal research focuses on provenance and facilitating trust in systems through transparency, auditing and explanations of entire systems from data through processing and usage.

Dr Frank Hoffman

Distinguished Research Fellow, National Defence University

Dr Frank Hoffman holds an appointment as a Distinguished Research Fellow at the National Defense University in Washington DC. He is a retired U.S. Marine infantry officer and former Pentagon analyst

Dr Pippa Malmgren

Founder, H Robotics

Pippa is an economist who brings simple sensemaking to the complexity of the world economy, geopolitics and technology. She draws on her experience as an Economic Advisor in the White House and as the Chief Currency Strategist, and as the Deputy Head of Global Strategy for global investment banks. She’s also been involved in robotics and autonomy having Co-Founded a firm that won the CogX Award in 2020 and which was shortlisted for the National Technology Awards in 2020.

Professor Tony Young

OBE PhD FRCS(Urol)

National Clinical Lead for Innovation NHS England

Consultant Urological Surgeon & Associate Medical Director Mid & South Essex University Hospitals Group

President Institute of Decontamination Sciences

Director of Medical Innovation, Anglia Ruskin University.

Dr Stuart Middleton

Lecturer in Computer Science, University of Southampton

Dr Stuart E. Middleton is a Lecturer in Computer Science at the University of Southampton researching Natural Language Processing. Current grants include NERC-funded platform grant GloSAT (NLP for data rescue), UKRI TAS Hub funded SafeSpacesNLP (Behaviour classification NLP for online harmful behaviours for children and young people) and ESRC-funded ProTecThem (Behaviour classification NLP around cybercrime risks of parents sharing content of minors). He was chair of WebSci’20 Workshop ‘Socio-technical AI systems for defence, cybercrime and cybersecurity’, has been an invited AI expert at both the ATI/DSTL workshop 2019 on ‘Decision Support for Military Commanders’ and UK Cabinet Office ministerial AI roundtable event 2019 on ‘use of AI in policing’, and is a member of the TAS Hub Sector Leads Committee.

Mat Rawsthorne

ESRC-funded Doctoral Service User Researcher, University of Nottingham

Mat Rawsthorne CGMA is a decision support professional with over 25 years’ experience working in the public, private and third sectors in behavioural health initiatives. He is an ESRC Doctoral Service User Researcher at the Institute of Mental Health and Head of Research for HD Labs Ltd, a digital wellbeing start-up focused on conversational intelligence. He is a Sector Lead for the Trustworthy Autonomous Systems Project, providing an Early Career Researcher, digital health industry, and patient perspective.

Paul O’Neill

Paul O’Neill is a Senior Research Fellow in Military Sciences at the Royal United Services Institute. His research interests cover national security strategy, NATO, and organisational aspects of Defence and security, including organisational design, human resources, professional military education and decision-making.

Dr Keith Dear

Dr Keith Dear is Director of Artificial Intelligence Innovation at Fujitsu Defence and National Security. Keith has served as an Expert Advisor to the Prime Minister on Defence Modernisation and the Integrated Review, leading also on UK space strategy in No. 10, and advising on national strategies on emerging technology. A former Intelligence Officer in the RAF he has served in Iraq, completed three deployments to Afghanistan, deployed to Abkhazia (Georgia) with the United Nations, to Mali alongside the French, and served on exchange with US Air Force.

Dr Kenneth Payne

Dr Kenneth Payne is Reader in International Relations at King’s College, London. His research is in political psychology and strategic studies. He has just finished writing his fourth book, which considers the ways in which Artificial Intelligence will change strategy. Earlier books explored the evolution of strategy from apes and early humans to Artificial Intelligence; strategy in the Vietnam War, and the relationship between human evolution and modern, liberal warfare.