Verity Harding
Verity Harding | |
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| Born | October 1984 (age 39) |
| Education | Pembroke College, Oxford |
| Alma mater | Pembroke College, Oxford Harvard University |
| Employer | DeepMind |
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Verity Harding (born October 1984[1][2]) is the Co-Lead of Ethics and Society at DeepMind.
Education and early career[edit]
Harding studied history at Pembroke College, Oxford.[3] She specialised in American history and completed a thesis on Black Power under the thesis of Stephen Tuck.[4] In 2007 she was a Michael von Clemm Fellow at Harvard University.[3][4] In 2022, she was an affiliated researcher at the Bennett Institute for Public Policy at University of Cambridge.[5]
Career[edit]
Harding served as Special Adviser for Nick Clegg until 2013.[6][7][8] She was responsible for home affairs and justice.[9] She was part of the fight for same-sex marriage movement in the UK.[10][11] She was appointed head of Public Policy at Google.[6][12][13][14] She was concerned that YouTube was too busy to filter terrorist videos.[15][16] In 2015 she was described by Management Today as being one of the Top Women in UK business.[17]
Harding was working on policy for Google's European business when Google were criticised for improper use of health data.[18] In 2017 Harding was appointed as co-lead for ethics and society at DeepMind.[19][20][21][22][23] 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.[19] She has discussed artificial intelligence at Cheltenham Science Festival and the Financial Times Festival.[24][25]
She was appointed Co-Chair of the Partnership on AI Fair, Transparent, and Accountable AI working group.[26] She also serves on the OECD Artificial Intelligence expert group.[27] She has delivered keynote talks on Artificial Intelligence at Cheltenham Science Festival, FT Weekend and at the G7 Multistakeholder Conference.[28]
Harding serves on the Board of Friends of the Royal Academy of Arts.[29]
Diversity and equality[edit]
Harding is a campaigner for more women in technology.[30] She was named by City A.M. as one of the Power 100 Women.[31] She is a judge for the Playfair Prize and on the advisory board of Women on Boards.[32]
References[edit]
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- ^ "Verity Jane HARDING". Companies House. Retrieved 28 November 2023.
- ^ a b "TECHINVEST | Verity Harding". Retrieved 25 December 2018.
- ^ a b "The Pembrokian, Issue 31, Jun 2007". Issuu. Retrieved 25 December 2018.
- ^ "Verity Harding". Retrieved 29 April 2022.
- ^ a b Owens, John. "Clegg adviser Verity Harding joins Google in policy role". prweek.com. Retrieved 25 December 2018.
- ^ "The Pembrokian, Issue 38, Jul 2013". Issuu. Retrieved 25 December 2018.
- ^ "January to March 2012 release of Special Advisers working for Deputy Prime Minister's Office hospitality in CSV format - GOV.UK". gov.uk. Retrieved 25 December 2018.
- ^ Events, Maddox. "Women of Silicon Roundabout 2018| Speakers". women-in-technology.com. Retrieved 25 December 2018.
- ^ Featherstone, Lynne (26 January 2016). Equal Ever After: The Fight for Same-Sex Marriage - and How I Made It Happen. Biteback Publishing. ISBN 9781785900143.
- ^ "The Liberal Democrat Equal Marriage Act Roll of Honour". Liberal Democrat Voice. Retrieved 25 December 2018.
- ^ "Verity Harding > Events: Europe 2015 - Speakers". advertisingweek.com. Advertising Week. Retrieved 25 December 2018.
- ^ "Business appointment application: Verity Harding" (PDF). Retrieved 25 December 2018.
- ^ Doward, Jamie (4 June 2016). "Google: new concerns raised about political influence by senior 'revolving door' jobs". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 25 December 2018.
- ^ "YouTube too overloaded to filter terrorist videos". cbsnews.com. Retrieved 25 December 2018.
- ^ "YouTube unable to eliminate all terror content due to volume". The Irish Times. Retrieved 25 December 2018.
- ^ Anderson, Elizabeth (5 July 2015). "Are these the top 35 business women in Britain today?". The Daily Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 25 December 2018.
- ^ "Following health data controversy, Google's DeepMind forms AI ethics unit". SiliconANGLE. 4 October 2017. Retrieved 25 December 2018.
- ^ a b Shead, Sam (4 October 2017). "DeepMind has launched a new 'ethics and society' research team". Business Insider. Retrieved 25 December 2018.
- ^ "Why we launched DeepMind Ethics & Society". DeepMind. Retrieved 25 December 2018.
- ^ "Google DeepMind has launched a new 'ethics and society' research team". e-x-a.co.uk. Retrieved 25 December 2018.
- ^ "So long Skynet: DeepMind sets up ethics committee". IT PRO. Retrieved 25 December 2018.
- ^ Hern, Alex (4 October 2017). "DeepMind announces ethics group to focus on problems of AI". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 25 December 2018.
- ^ "Liberty and morality in the AI era". Financial Times. 19 September 2018. Retrieved 25 December 2018.
- ^ "The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence". Cheltenham Festivals. Retrieved 25 December 2018.
- ^ ""Fair, Transparent, and Accountable AI" Working Group launches in London". The Partnership on AI. 10 May 2018. Retrieved 25 December 2018.
- ^ "Digital - OECD" (PDF). oecd.org. Retrieved 25 December 2018.
- ^ Government of Canada, Innovation. "G7 Multistakeholder Conference on Artificial Intelligence: Agenda". ic.gc.ca. Retrieved 4 February 2019.
- ^ "FRIENDS OF THE ROYAL ACADEMY(THE) - Officers (free information from Companies House)". beta.companieshouse.gov.uk. Retrieved 4 February 2019.
- ^ Hammett, Ellen. "#AWEurope: The gender gap - where are we now?". mediatel.co.uk. Retrieved 25 December 2018.
- ^ "Power 100 Women". cityam.com. City A.M. Retrieved 25 December 2018.
- ^ "Judges". playfair prize. Retrieved 25 December 2018.