Today, the @DCMS & @OfficeforAI publish the UK’s #NationalAIStrategy, which supersedes the AI Sector Deal, last updated in 2019. Important takeaways 👇

1/10 This new strategy represents an important articulation of the UK’s ambitions to cultivate and harness the power of AI. It provides welcome detail on the Government’s proposed approach to AI investment, and their plans to grow the UK's AI research & commercial sector.

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📢NEW: The @AdaLovelaceInst, @AINowInstitute & @opengovpart have partnered on the first global study of the regulations and policy tools governing the use of algorithms in the public sector.

Read the findings here: bit.ly/AlgorithmicTra…
1/5 Governments across the world are using algorithms to automate decisions, but there's growing evidence that these systems can cause harm, frequently lack transparency and are implemented often without public input.
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📚It's the second of three annual reading weeks at @AdaLovelaceInst.

This is time for the whole team to step back from emailing and Zooming to replenish our stores of knowledge.

Here are some of the books on our list. What else should we be reading?👇 1⃣Cyber Republic: Reinventing democracy in the age of intelligent machines by @zarkadakis.

How to make liberal democracies more inclusive and the digital economy more equitable: a guide for the coming Fourth Industrial Revolution. mitpress.mit.edu/books/cyber-re…

As NHS trials new contact tracing app, new report by @AdaLovelaceInst & @traversepeople finds the public want to see evidence it works alongside independent oversight.

#COVID19Tech #ContactTracing
adalovelaceinstitute.org/our-work/covid… Over three weeks in May 2020, the @AdaLovelaceInst, @traversepeople, @involveUK & @BangtheTable convened a rapid online discussion with 28 members of the public to explore attitudes to the use of #COVID19 related technologies for transitioning out of lockdown.

Join @sarahdrinkwater, @thomasmhughes and @safiyanoble at 17:00 BST to explore:
🔹what is ‘good’?
🔹who is responsible for ‘good’?
🔹how can we embed ‘good’ into structures and processes to make tech work for people and society?

#CogX2020 #AdaCogX2020 1⃣ @safiyanoble speak for those most vulnerable & those in crosshairs of technology design pay the highest price. We are living in a moment of #BlackLivesMatter outpouring through technology and people using technology to protest, connect, bolster calls for police accountability.

The Ada Lovelace Institute Ethics & Society Stage kicks off at 10am this morning with 'Do we need more WEIRDos in Whitehall' with @ChiOnwurah @Jackstilgoe @JeniT and @JohnNaughton

We'll be pulling out key points from the discussion in the thread below 👇 'We have passed peak trust' says @ChiOnwurah and Goverment missing tricks on data sharing, transparency, protecting digital citizens. She calls for a digital charter that empowers citizens and builds an ecosystem of digital governance.

📘 NEW REPORT

The UK Government wants to roll out a digital #ContactTracing app in 2-3 weeks.

Building on our rapid evidence review, we've outlined the steps needed to make an app trustworthy, before it’s deployed. #ExitThroughTheAppStore #COVID19

adalovelaceinstitute.org/our-work/covid… 1⃣ Provisos for a #ContactTracing app: demonstrate efficacy, develop legislation and broader strategy, and build trust.

#ExitThroughTheAppStore #Covid19UK

We're just about to kick off our webinar on the data governance of #ContactTracingApp. Discussing centralised/decentralised approaches and what they mean for the present and future of health and privacy.
We'll tweet some key points in this thread

adalovelaceinstitute.org/contact-tracin…

#COVID We have three key questions to discuss on #ContactTracingApp, they focus on:
1- Efficacy of the Apps
2-Legal and Technical safeguards, policy instruments
3-Public Trust, you can't have public trust without guaranteed efficacy and safeguards