Wednesday
12
February
2025
Knowledge Centre at the British Library

AI Fringe 2025: Day 2

On day two, with the Summit coming to a close, we explored some key issues and delved into the outcomes from the AI Action Summit and what they mean for policymakers, businesses and citizens.

Agenda

08:30 – 09:30

Check-in and breakfast

09:30 – 10:30

Auditorium

Welcome and opening remarks

Auditorium

AI, labels and global labour rights: Making sure standards don’t slip

In this session the panel will discuss how we can enforce global labour rights across the AI supply chain, foster ethical industry practices, enhance transparency and build public trust via best practices.

Justin King
Justin King
Director, Milltown Partners
Melanie Garson
Melanie Garson
Cyber & Tech Geopolitics Lead, Tony Blair Institute
Andrew Dudfield
Andrew Dudfield
Head of AI, Full Fact
Joe Massey
Joe Massey
Senior Researcher, Open Data Institute
Kanika Joshi
Kanika Joshi
Founder, Impact Circle
10:30 – 10:40

Break

10:40 – 11:30

Auditorium

Designing, building and using sustainable AI

Join a panel of experts with perspectives from across the AI ecosystem to discuss how to design, build and use AI systems sustainably.

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AI slop? Consumers say no!

For many, experiences of AI will be of low quality, harmful or manipulative outputs — like chatbots that make unsafe recommendations, and AI ramping up online fraud.

This session brings together experts from across online dating, legal services, financial services and children’s online protection to discuss the challenges and how they can be addressed.

Dr Natasha McCarthy
Dr Natasha McCarthy
Associate Director - Policy, Royal Academy of Engineering
Dame Dawn Childs DBE FREng
Dame Dawn Childs DBE FREng
CEO, Pure Data Centres
Professor Marina Jirotka
Professor Marina Jirotka
Professor of Human Centred Computing, University of Oxford
Dr Loïc Lannelongue
Dr Loïc Lannelongue
Senior Research Associate, University of Cambridge
Dr Mahlet (Milly) Zimeta
Dr Mahlet (Milly) Zimeta
Head of Digital and Data Policy, Which?
Simon Newman
Simon Newman
CEO, Online Dating and Discovery Association
Dr Francine Ryan
Dr Francine Ryan
Senior Lecturer in Law, The Open University and Director, Open Justice Centre
Colette Collins-Walsh
Colette Collins-Walsh
Head of UK Affairs, 5Rights
Mick McAteer
Mick McAteer
Founder and co-Director, Financial Inclusion and Markets Centre (FIMC)
11:30 – 12:00

Break and networking

12:00 – 13:00

Auditorium

Open source AI: Maximising the opportunity

This session will be a place to explore and debate the international community’s treatment of open-source AI and the open-source ecosystem in the UK, bringing insights from the AI Action Summit back to London.

Eliot room

International collaborations to advance responsible AI

This session will bring concrete examples of responsible AI from Asia, Latin America and Africa, and raise the issues of how to address the challenges and capture the benefits of international work for advancing AI that benefits humanity.

Camilla de Coverly Veale
Camilla de Coverly Veale
Senior Manager, AI Policy, Mozilla
Elizabeth Seger
Elizabeth Seger
Director of Digital Policy, Demos
Dave Buckley
Dave Buckley
Policy, OpenMined
Professor Gina Neff
Professor Gina Neff
Deputy CEO of RAi UK and Director, Minderoo Centre for Technology & Democracy
Professor Dame Wendy Hall DBE FRS FREng FCGI
Professor Dame Wendy Hall DBE FRS FREng FCGI
Regius Professor of Computer Science, Associate Vice President (International Engagement) and Director of the Web Science Institute, University of Southampton
Professor Eva Navarro López
Professor Eva Navarro López
Full Professor in Computing and AI, Rochester Institute of Technology and Science and Methodology Committee of the International Panel on the Information Environment
Nima Elmi
Nima Elmi
VP, Strategy & Policy, EMEA, Circle and Co-Founder, The Africa Dialogues
Dr Nora McIntyre
Dr Nora McIntyre
Associate Professor in Educational Innovation, University of Southampton and Principal Investigator, FATES of Africa project
Dr Nayana Prakash
Dr Nayana Prakash
Research Fellow, International Security Programme, Chatham House
13:00 – 14:30

Lunch and networking

13:45 – 14:15

Eliot room

Lunchtime presentation: Deepfake defences

The proliferation of deepfakes online is leading to all manner of harms, from fraud to sexual abuse, through to bullying and political interference. Learn more about the problem of deepfakes and the solutions at our disposal in a lunchtime presentation from Ofcom. This will include a consideration of techniques like watermarking, content metadata and deepfake detections tools.

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Benedict Dellot
Technology Policy Principal, Ofcom
14:30 – 16:30

Join the closing session of the AI Fringe, featuring a showcase debate, reflections from the AI Action Summit in Paris and closing remarks.

Auditorium

Showcase debate: AI will be the great equaliser

Watch and take part in a showcase debate facilitated by Debate Mate, where two teams will look towards, and debate on, the future of AI in the world.

Auditorium

Reflections from the Summit

Hear from those who attended the AI Action Summit as they share their insights from the ground, reflections on the outcomes and views on what’s ahead.

Lord Ed Vaizey
Lord Ed Vaizey
Chair, Common Sense Media UK
Jonathan Gilmore
Jonathan Gilmore
Co-Founder and CEO, DeepFlow
Gabriella Ewulomi
Gabriella Ewulomi
Alumna, Debate Mate Schools
Professor Gina Neff
Professor Gina Neff
Deputy CEO of RAi UK and Director, Minderoo Centre for Technology & Democracy
Keanna Williams
Keanna Williams
Litigation Associate, Cahill Gordon & Reindel (UK)
Tom Bristow
Tom Bristow
Tech Reporter, POLITICO Europe
Gaia Marcus
Gaia Marcus
Director, Ada Lovelace Institute
Iain Mackay
Iain Mackay
Director AI Safety & Government, Faculty
Melika Carroll
Melika Carroll
Head of Global Government Affairs and Public Policy, Cohere
Henry de Zoete
Henry de Zoete
Senior Advisor and Visiting Fellow, Oxford Martin AI Governance Initiative
Emmanuel Areoye
Emmanuel Areoye
Student
Elissa Abbara
Elissa Abbara
Associate, Debate Mate Training
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Dr Natasha McCarthy
Associate Director - Policy, Royal Academy of Engineering
Dame Dawn Childs DBE FREng
CEO, Pure Data Centres
Professor Marina Jirotka
Professor of Human Centred Computing, University of Oxford
Dr Loïc Lannelongue
Senior Research Associate, University of Cambridge
Dr Mahlet (Milly) Zimeta
Head of Digital and Data Policy, Which?
Simon Newman
CEO, Online Dating and Discovery Association
Dr Francine Ryan
Senior Lecturer in Law, The Open University and Director, Open Justice Centre
Colette Collins-Walsh
Head of UK Affairs, 5Rights
Mick McAteer
Founder and co-Director, Financial Inclusion and Markets Centre (FIMC)
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