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Verity Harding
Alma materPembroke College, Oxford
Harvard University
EmployerDeepMind

Verity Harding (born 1986) is the Co-Lead of Ethics and Society at DeepMind.

Education and early career

Harding studied history at Pembroke College, Oxford.[1] She specialised in American history and completed a thesis on Black Power under the thesis of Stephen Tuck.[2] In 2007 she was a Michael von Clemm Fellow at Harvard University.[1][2]

Career

Harding served as Special Adviser for Nick Clegg until 2013.[3][4][5] She was responsible for home affairs and justice.[6] She was part of the fight for same-sex marriage movement in the UK.[7][8] She was appointed head of Public Policy at Google.[3][9][10][11] She was concerned that YouTube was too busy to filter terrorist videos.[12][13] In 2015 she was described by Management Today as being one of the Top Women in UK business.[14]

Harding was working on policy for Google's European business when Google were criticised for improper use of health data.[15] In 2017 Harding was appointed as co-lead for ethics and society at DeepMind.[16][17][18][19][20] DeepMind ethics and society has six pillars, including privacy transparency, economic impacts, governance, managing risk, morality and how to use AI to address the world's challenges.[16] She has discussed artificial intelligence at Cheltenham Science Festival and the Financial Times Festival.[21][22]

She was appointed Co-Chair of the Partnership on AI Fair, Transparent, and Accountable AI working group.[23] She also serves on the OECD Artificial Intelligence expert group.[24] She has delivered keynote talks on Artificial Intelligence at Cheltenham Science Festival, FT Weekend and at the G7 Multistakeholder Conference.[25]

Harding serves on the Board of Friends of the Royal Academy of Arts.[26]

Diversity and equality

Harding is a campaigner for more women in technology.[27] She was named by City A.M. as one of the Power 100 Women.[28] She is a judge for the Playfair Prize and on the advisory board of Women on Boards.[29]

References

  1. ^ a b "TECHINVEST | Verity Harding". Retrieved 2018-12-25.
  2. ^ a b "The Pembrokian, Issue 31, Jun 2007". Issuu. Retrieved 2018-12-25.
  3. ^ a b Owens, John. "Clegg adviser Verity Harding joins Google in policy role". prweek.com. Retrieved 2018-12-25.
  4. ^ "The Pembrokian, Issue 38, Jul 2013". Issuu. Retrieved 2018-12-25.
  5. ^ "January to March 2012 release of Special Advisers working for Deputy Prime Minister's Office hospitality in CSV format - GOV.UK". gov.uk. Retrieved 2018-12-25.
  6. ^ Events, Maddox. "Women of Silicon Roundabout 2018| Speakers". women-in-technology.com. Retrieved 2018-12-25.
  7. ^ Featherstone, Lynne (2016-01-26). Equal Ever After: The Fight for Same-Sex Marriage - and How I Made It Happen. Biteback Publishing. ISBN 9781785900143.
  8. ^ "The Liberal Democrat Equal Marriage Act Roll of Honour". Liberal Democrat Voice. Retrieved 2018-12-25.
  9. ^ "Verity Harding > Events: Europe 2015 | Speakers / Advertising Week". advertisingweek.com. Retrieved 2018-12-25.
  10. ^ "Business appointment application: Verity Harding" (PDF). Retrieved 2018-12-25.
  11. ^ Doward, Jamie (2016-06-04). "Google: new concerns raised about political influence by senior 'revolving door' jobs". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2018-12-25.
  12. ^ "YouTube too overloaded to filter terrorist videos". cbsnews.com. Retrieved 2018-12-25.
  13. ^ "YouTube unable to eliminate all terror content due to volume". The Irish Times. Retrieved 2018-12-25.
  14. ^ Anderson, Elizabeth (2015-07-05). "Are these the top 35 business women in Britain today?". ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 2018-12-25.
  15. ^ "Following health data controversy, Google's DeepMind forms AI ethics unit". SiliconANGLE. 2017-10-04. Retrieved 2018-12-25.
  16. ^ a b UK, Sam Shead, Business Insider. "DeepMind has launched a new 'ethics and society' research team". Business Insider. Retrieved 2018-12-25. {{cite web}}: |first= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  17. ^ "Why we launched DeepMind Ethics & Society". DeepMind. Retrieved 2018-12-25.
  18. ^ "Google DeepMind has launched a new 'ethics and society' research team". e-x-a.co.uk. Retrieved 2018-12-25.
  19. ^ "So long Skynet: DeepMind sets up ethics committee". IT PRO. Retrieved 2018-12-25.
  20. ^ Hern, Alex (2017-10-04). "DeepMind announces ethics group to focus on problems of AI". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2018-12-25.
  21. ^ "Liberty and morality in the AI era". Financial Times. 2018-09-19. Retrieved 2018-12-25.
  22. ^ "The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence". Cheltenham Festivals. Retrieved 2018-12-25.
  23. ^ ""Fair, Transparent, and Accountable AI" Working Group launches in London". The Partnership on AI. 2018-05-10. Retrieved 2018-12-25.
  24. ^ "http://www.oecd.org/going-digital/ai/oecd-aigo-membership-list.pdf?1545091200023" (PDF). oecd.org. Retrieved 2018-12-25. {{cite web}}: External link in |title= (help)
  25. ^ Government of Canada, Innovation. "G7 Multistakeholder Conference on Artificial Intelligence: Agenda". ic.gc.ca. Retrieved 2019-02-04.
  26. ^ "FRIENDS OF THE ROYAL ACADEMY(THE) - Officers (free information from Companies House)". beta.companieshouse.gov.uk. Retrieved 2019-02-04.
  27. ^ Hammett, Ellen. "#AWEurope: The gender gap - where are we now?". mediatel.co.uk. Retrieved 2018-12-25.
  28. ^ "Power 100 Women | City A.M." cityam.com. Retrieved 2018-12-25.
  29. ^ "Judges". playfair prize. Retrieved 2018-12-25.
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