London Tech Week: AI engineering - an ethics job?

Maria Luciana Axente

Responsible AI executive, Ethicist and Influencer,

Maria is a globally recognised, award winning AI ethics expert, public policy contributor, a member of various Advisory Boards - UK All-Party Parliamentary Group on AI  (APPG AI) ,ORBIT & SKEMA AI Institute, Vice Chair of techUK Data and AI leadership committee and member of BSI/ISO & IEEE AI standard groups. She is a passionate advocate for children rights in the age of AI, serving as member of the Advisory Board for UNICEF #AI4Children and World Economic Forum Generation AI programmes. Maria is PwC Responsible AI lead, managing the company's efforts in deploying responsible AI and data across the UK business, its operations and clients.

: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mariaaxente/
: @maria_axente

Ivana Bartoletti

Global Head of Privacy, Wipro

Ivana Bartoletti is the Global Head of Privacy at Wipro, the leading international information technology, consulting and business process services company.

Ivana is an internationally recognised thought leader in the fields of privacy, data protection and responsible technology. She has many years of experience working for large organizations in privacy policy, strategy and programmes related to digital transformation, cloud and automation. The Cyber Security Awards named her Woman of the Year (2019).

As a Visiting Policy Fellow at the University of Oxford, her research focuses on how to advance the global sharing of information in the context of privacy, security, data protection and human rights.

Ivana is co-editor of The AI Book, a handbook for investors, entrepreneurs and fintech visionaries and is author of An Artificial Revolution, on Power, Politics and AI.

She is founder of the influential Women Leading in AI network. A sought-after subject expert, Ivana is interviewed frequently in the mainstream media and speaks at many international events. An interview about her book is available here.

: www.ivanabartoletti.co.uk
: @IvanaBartoletti

Professor Stuart Russell OBE

Professor of Computer Science, University of California at Berkeley

Stuart Russell received his B.A. with first-class honours in physics from Oxford University in 1982 and his Ph.D. in computer science from Stanford in 1986. He then joined the faculty of the University of California at Berkeley, where he is Professor (and formerly Chair) of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, holder of the Smith-Zadeh Chair in Engineering, Director of the Center for Human-Compatible AI, and Director of the Kavli Center for Ethics, Science, and the Public. He has also served as Adjunct Professor of Neurological Surgery at UC San Francisco. He currently serves as co-chair of the World Economic Forum's Council on AI, co-chair of the OECD Expert Group on AI Futures, and US representative at the Global Partnership for AI. He is a recipient of the NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award, the IJCAI Computers and Thought Award, the IJCAI Research Excellence Award, the World Technology Award (Policy category), the Mitchell Prize of the American Statistical Association, the AAAI Feigenbaum Prize, the ACM Allen Newell Award, and Outstanding Educator Awards from both ACM and AAAI. From 2012 to 2014 he held the Chaire Blaise Pascal in Paris, and from 2019 to 2021 he held the Andrew Carnegie Fellowship. In 2021 he was appointed by Her Majesty The Queen as an Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (OBE) and was selected as Reith Lecturer. He is an Honorary Fellow of Wadham College, Oxford; Distinguished Fellow of the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI; Associate Fellow of the Royal Institute for International Affairs (Chatham House); and Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, the Association for Computing Machinery, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. His book "Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach" (with Peter Norvig) is the standard text in AI; it has been translated into 14 languages and is used in 1500 universities in 135 countries. His research covers a wide range of topics in artificial intelligence including machine learning, probabilistic reasoning, knowledge representation, planning, real-time decision making, multitarget tracking, computer vision, computational physiology, and philosophical foundations. He has also worked with the United Nations to create a new global seismic monitoring system for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty. His current concerns include the threat of autonomous weapons and the long-term future of artificial intelligence and its relation to humanity. The latter topic is the subject of his new book, "Human Compatible: AI and the Problem of Control" (Viking/Penguin, 2019).

Marc Warner

CEO and Co-Founder, Faculty

Marc Warner is the co-founder and CEO of Faculty.  He founded Faculty in the belief that the benefits of AI should extend to everyone. He has shaped the company so that it can support organisations of all shapes and sizes to take advantage of rapid advances in this field.

Marc has overseen the growth of Faculty to one of London's premier AI companies. Faculty helps other organisations develop and deploy artificial intelligence in the real world, through a combination of technology, expertise and education.