Who: Laura Gilbert leads the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change’s work on applied artificial intelligence, developing solutions to help governments design evidence-based policies, optimize spending and deliver resilient public services. Her work has a particular focus on AI for the public good, including a digital-public-goods initiative that brings together international governments and industry to build pro-social, open-source AI tools for the public sector. Previously, she was Founding Director of 10DS, Downing Street’s data-science team, and created i.AI, the UK government’s AI incubator. She was a speaker at the recent Tallinn Digital Summit in Estonia.
Topic: Public service AI and AI’s future direction.
Quote: “There is probably a future world in which the big tech providers dominate, and rich people get much richer and a lot more people end up with no jobs and health services are even more preferential to white people and people with money have a much better education. Alternatively, we can create a world that is more inclusive, where everyone gets a good education, a decent standard of living and preventative healthcare. That is the world I want to live in. So, the question is not what will the future hold? The question we should be answering is what should the future hold? ”
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