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Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation Minutes - Board Meeting 8

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30th October 2019

Royal Academy of Engineering, Prince Philip House, 3 Carlton House Terrace, London, SW1Y 5DG

Attendees

  • Roger Taylor (RT)
  • Rt Revd Dr Steven Croft (SC)
  • Edwina Dunn (ED)
  • Prof Luciano Floridi (LF)
  • Dame Patricia Hodgson (PH)
  • Dr Susan Liautaud (SL)
  • Dame Glenys Stacey (GS)
  • Baroness Kate Rock (KR)
  • Richard Sargeant (RS)

Apologies

  • Kriti Sharma (KS)
  • Dr Adrian Weller (AW)
  • Prof Lord Robert Winston (RW)

Observers (CDEI staff for sections of the meeting relevant to their work)

  • Ollie Buckley (OB)
  • Sam Cannicott (SC)
  • Alex Lawrence-Archer (ALA)
  • Ben Lyons (BL)
  • Louise Pakseresht (LP)

ITEM 1: Opening

  • Apologies.
  • Declaration of Interests, and no declared interests.
  • The Board approved the minutes from the previous meeting.

ITEM 2: Chair’s Update

  • Note of upcoming General Election and restrictions on civil servants and board members of Arms-Length Bodies during the pre-election period.

ITEM 2: Executive Director’s Update

  • Update on new staff members joining CDEI.

ITEM 3: Reporting - standing items

  • Update
    • Discussion on hiring plans for 2020.

ITEM 4: 2020/21 Work Programme

  • ALA presented on the broad outline of the CDEI’s work programme for 2020/21, noting that the work of the ‘Analyse and Anticipate’ team would continue and expand, including an increased focus on horizon scanning, and that the Strategy Team’s work would also continue to enable the other functions of the Centre and maintain coordination and coherence between the Centre’s outputs.
  • There was substantial discussion of how the Policy/Projects Team’s work would be planned for the coming year, given that the CDEI has relatively greater freedom to propose projects to carry out to the Secretary of State. It was agreed that a balance would need to be struck between developing and publishing policy recommendations on the one hand, and working directly with other organisations on specific projects to develop understanding and dissemination of AI ethics best practice. The CDEI team undertook to bring more developed proposals for prioritising project work to the Board at the next meeting.

ITEM 5: Development of CDEI’s profile and branding guidelines

  • PH presented to the Board on the approach to using communications to support the CDEI’s policy recommendations and other work. It was noted that external communications would be very limited in the pre-election period, but that from January 2020 these would recommence, and that an external communications agency would be engaged to advise the CDEI on how to do this most effectively.

ITEM 6: Baroness Kidron (BK) - 5Rights Foundation

  • Baroness Kidron presented to the Board on 5Rights’ mission to change the digital world to recognise the children in it.
  • BK noted that the Committee on the Rights of the Child is currently examining how the Convention of the Rights of the Child applies to the digital world.
  • 5Rights is setting up a commission on digital futures to get people thinking about children’s rights in a functional way. Specifically:
    • Children’s health and education data
    Free play and participation
    Guidance for UK Digital Innovation
  • The Board and Executive team agreed to consider how the CDEI might work with or support 5Rights and their objectives.

ITEM 7: Targeting review: discussion of outline report

  • BL presented an outline of the final report into the ethics of online micro-targeting. A discussion followed on this, and the final report from IPSOS Mori on the public dialogue sessions held by CDEI earlier this year.
  • The Board agreed that the focus of the recommendations from the review was in line with their expectations.

ITEM 8: A&A Update

Update: AI Barometer (5 mins)

  • LP provided a brief update on this work, reminding the Board of the sectors covered and that a published report will follow in early 2020. The Board agreed that the work is promising.

Input: Data Sharing report (20 mins)

  • SC presented an early draft of a report in public sector data sharing, reviewing a range of case studies of data sharing projects in the public sector. There was a discussion on how the report might lead into further work for the Centre in 2020, focusing on articulating the conditions necessary for public trust in work to unlock high-value public sector data sets to be earned and maintained. SC undertook to present a more fully-developed draft and follow-on plans to the Board at the next meeting.
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