Using data and AI to solve

The UK-based Alan Turing Institute is launching a new research programme in data science and artificial intelligence (AI) for public policy. Led by Professor Helen Margetts, a Turing Fellow and Professor of Society and Internet at the University of Oxford, the programme aims to foster government innovation. Researchers will work with policy-makers to explore how data-driven public service provision and policy innovation might solve long running'wicked' policy problems to develop the ethical foundations for the use of data in policy-making and to restore government's role as a leader in tech innovation. The new programme builds on the Turing's ongoing work with government. Working with the Institute's Data Ethics Group -- which leads the Turing's research in understanding the ethical and societal implications of data science and AI -- the Institute is advising the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport on the recently announced Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation and is a founding partner of the Ada Lovelace Institute, which will be launched by the Nuffield Foundation later this year.