Jessica Bancroft

Enabling trustworthy innovation by assuring AI systems

Ghazi Ahamat, Christopher Thomas and Jessica Bancroft, 8 December 2021 - Artificial intelligence, Assurance, Trustworthy innovation

Artificial intelligence (AI) offers huge potential to transform our society and economy. It has been harnessed to combat the pandemic; from supporting the discovery of new therapies and rapid virus detection methods, to powering dashboards that help clinicians make treatment …

A broader approach to digital regulation: Empowering users by enabling active choices online

Jessica Bancroft and Grace Elcock, 18 August 2021 - Data, Public engagement, Responsible innovation

In February 2020, we published our review of online targeting, which included a number of recommendations to government, regulators and industry, regarding how data is used to shape the online experience. In the final report, we recommended that online platforms …

The use of algorithms in the content moderation process

Tom Lymn and Jessica Bancroft, 5 August 2021 - Algorithms, Artificial intelligence, Covid-19, Misinformation

Algorithms play an essential role in moderating content on social media platforms. They can be used to identify material that has already been banned, as well as detect previously unseen forms of misinformation, by identifying signals that are indicative of …

Enabling active choices online: Trialling behaviourally informed prototypes

Nathan Bookbinder-Ryan and Jessica Bancroft, 16 June 2021 - Data, Public engagement, Responsible innovation

Following publication of our review of online targeting, we began to work with the Behavioural Insights Team (BIT) to explore different ways to empower users to make active choices online about their privacy and personalisation settings. We defined “active choices” …

Supporting new approaches to enable trustworthy data sharing and improve data access across the economy

Jessica Bancroft, 24 May 2021 - Data, Data-sharing, Public engagement, Responsible innovation

Last week, government published the response to the National Data Strategy consultation, and laid the ICO’s Data Sharing Code of Practice before Parliament. Respondents to the consultation considered questions relating to the five priority areas for action that government set …

Testing new approaches to responsible innovation

Jessica Bancroft, 17 December 2020 - Artificial intelligence, Data-driven technology, Responsible innovation

In this blog, we highlight how, as proposed in the UK government’s National Data Strategy, the CDEI is increasingly working in partnership with public sector bodies and industry on live projects, and building out its capability to help the government …

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