The Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation: Leading the Way in Trustworthy Innovation
The Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation (CDEI) is dedicated to enabling trustworthy innovation using data and artificial intelligence. We achieve this by developing tools, governance frameworks, guidance, and standards that empower organisations to use AI and data in a way that builds public trust.
Achievements and Highlights
We would like to take this opportunity to thank the CDEI Advisory Board for their support during their tenure. The Board has played a crucial role in shaping our programmes of work around responsible data access, AI assurance, and algorithmic transparency. Some notable highlights include:
- Rollout of the Algorithmic Transparency Recording Standard, which facilitates trusted and trustworthy uses of algorithmic tools in the public sector and beyond.
- Delivery of the UK-US Privacy-Enhancing Technologies (PETs) prize challenge, which encouraged adoption and innovation in PETs to help solve global challenges.
- Design of the upcoming Fairness Innovation Challenge, focused on tackling bias in real-world applications of AI systems.
Testimonials from Advisory Board Members
We would like to share some highlights from our Advisory Board members’ time on the Board:
Professor Neil Lawrence – Interim Chair and CDEI Advisory Board member, 2021-23
“It has been a great pleasure to support the work of the CDEI as an advisory board member and interim chair. The problem is made more complex because of its fundamentally socio-technical nature. Policy makers are then faced with the difficult challenge of operationalising this spectrum of advice by integrating it with pragmatism and nuanced understanding of the wider political and economic landscape. It has been an immense privilege to work so closely with the CDEI as they perform this difficult translation.”
Martin Hosken – CDEI Advisory Board member, 2021-23
“Serving as an Advisory Board Member for the CDEI has been a huge privilege. The rate of technological change is accelerating at an unprecedented rate, and it has been an evolving and exciting opportunity to work with the CDEI on the Research Cloud options and the PETs Prize Challenge.”
Professor Marion Oswald, MBE – CDEI Advisory Board member, 2021-23
“Now more than ever, governments, policymakers, and industry need expert, constructive, critical friends to guide the technical and governance aspects of data-driven technology and AI. The CDEI serves that expert role – perhaps uniquely within a government structure – and has provided operationally and context-focused initiatives to tackle challenging issues.”
Professor Mimi Zou – CDEI Advisory Board member, 2021-23
“It has been an honour to serve on the Advisory Board of CDEI over the past two years. CDEI has played a pivotal role in promoting responsible innovation across both the public and private sectors since its establishment in 2018. I have no doubt that CDEI will continue to be a leading actor in delivering the UK’s strategic priorities in the trustworthy use of data and AI and responsible innovation.”
Conclusion
We would like to extend our thanks to the Advisory Board for their time and commitment over the past few years. It has been a pleasure and honour to work with these world-leading experts. We will continue to seek expert views and advice in an agile way that allows us to respond to the opportunities and challenges of the ever-changing AI landscape.
FAQs
Q: What is the Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation?
A: The Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation is a government body dedicated to enabling trustworthy innovation using data and artificial intelligence.
Q: What is the role of the Advisory Board?
A: The Advisory Board plays a crucial role in shaping the Centre’s programmes of work around responsible data access, AI assurance, and algorithmic transparency.
Q: What are some of the Centre’s notable achievements?
A: Some notable highlights include the rollout of the Algorithmic Transparency Recording Standard, the delivery of the UK-US PETs prize challenge, and the design of the upcoming Fairness Innovation Challenge.
Q: How will the Centre continue to engage with experts and stakeholders?
A: The Centre will continue to seek expert views and advice in an agile way that allows us to respond to the opportunities and challenges of the ever-changing AI landscape.
