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Driving responsible innovation in self-driving vehicles

Michael Birtwistle, Ghazi Ahamat and Lara Bird, Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation, 19 August 2022 - Artificial intelligence, Data, Data-driven technology, Ethical innovation, Responsible innovation, Trustworthy innovation

Self-driving vehicles have the potential to radically transform the UK’s roads. But to enable their benefits and achieve the government’s ambition to ‘make the UK the best place in the world to deploy connected and automated vehicles’, developers and manufacturers …

Part two: Examining public attitudes towards Smart Data schemes

Benjamin Moore, Wiktoria Kulik, CDEI, Hannah Spiro, CDEI, Holly Clarke, CDEI and Vincenzo Rampulla, BEIS, 22 June 2022 - Data, Public engagement, Trustworthy innovation

We have been working with the Department for Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) to identify the features of ethical and trustworthy Smart Data schemes. Smart Data refers to the “secure sharing of customer data with authorised third party providers …

Part one: Examining public attitudes towards Smart Data schemes

Benjamin Moore, Wiktoria Kulik, CDEI, Hannah Spiro, CDEI, Holly Clarke, CDEI and Vincenzo Rampulla, BEIS, 22 June 2022 - Data, Public engagement, Trustworthy innovation

We have been working with the Department for Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) to identify the features of ethical and trustworthy Smart Data schemes. Smart Data schemes have the potential to unlock significant benefits for consumers and the UK …

Enabling the responsible use of AI in defence

Ben Kelly, 15 June 2022 - Artificial intelligence, Data, Trustworthy innovation

The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has today published the UK’s Defence AI Strategy, outlining how the UK will prioritise research, development and experimentation to revolutionise the UK’s Armed Forces capabilities. Additionally, the MoD has published a policy on the ‘Ambitious, …

Enabling responsible access to demographic data for algorithmic bias detection

Amy Dickens, Mackenzie Jorgensen and James Scott, 14 June 2022 - Bias, Demographic data, Trustworthy innovation

This week, we announced the launch of a new programme of work around enabling responsible access to data. One of the initial workstreams in this programme is exploring the potential for novel approaches to data stewardship to support organisations to …

Introducing our responsible data access work programme

Mark Durkee, 13 June 2022 - Data, Data-driven technology, Trustworthy innovation

Access to data is an obvious requirement for data-driven innovation, but many innovators struggle to access the data they need. In a recent CDEI survey, 86% of vendors of AI and data-driven technologies stated that a number of data-related factors …

Piloting the UK algorithmic transparency standard

Amy Dickens and Elena Hess-Rheingans, Central Digital and Data Office, 1 June 2022 - Algorithms, Transparency, Trustworthy innovation

Today, the Central Digital and Data Office (CDDO) and Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation (CDEI) have published the first reports from our transparency standard pilots. The public sector algorithmic transparency standard is one of the world’s first initiatives of …

Monitoring how public attitudes towards data and AI vary over time

Hannah Spiro and Holly Clarke, 30 March 2022 - Artificial intelligence, Data, Public engagement, Trustworthy innovation

We have today published the findings from the first wave of our new tracker survey, which will be repeated at consistent intervals to enable changes in attitudes to data and AI to be monitored for the first time. Understanding how …

Addressing barriers to responsible innovation

Michael Birtwistle, 17 December 2021 - Artificial intelligence, Data, Trustworthy innovation

We have today published a new edition of our AI Barometer, an analysis of the most pressing opportunities and risks associated with AI and data use in the UK, and of the barriers that prevent us from realising the full …

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 …

Blog Responsible Technology Adoption Unit Blog

Driving responsible innovation in self-driving vehicles

Part two: Examining public attitudes towards Smart Data schemes

Part one: Examining public attitudes towards Smart Data schemes

Enabling the responsible use of AI in defence

Enabling responsible access to demographic data for algorithmic bias detection

Introducing our responsible data access work programme

Piloting the UK algorithmic transparency standard

Monitoring how public attitudes towards data and AI vary over time

Addressing barriers to responsible innovation

Enabling trustworthy innovation by assuring AI systems

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