Biography:Kay Firth-Butterfield

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Short description: Law and AI ethics professor & author
Kay Firth-Butterfield
Known forArtificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
International Relations
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Sussex (B.A.)
St. Mary's University (M.A., LL.M.)
Academic work
InstitutionsWorld Economic Forum
University of Texas at Austin

Kay Firth-Butterfield is a lawyer, professor, and author specializing in the intersection of artificial intelligence, international relations, and AI ethics. Since 2017, she has been the Head of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and machine learning at the World Economic Forum.[1][2] and a member of the Executive Committee at the World Economic Forum. She is one of the foremost experts in the world on the governance of AI. She is a Barrister, former Judge and Professor, technologist and entrepreneur who has an abiding interest in how humanity can equitably benefit from new technologies, especially AI. Kay is an Associate Barrister at Doughty Street Chambers and Master of the Inner Temple, London. She co-founded the Responsible AI Institute and, in 2014, was the world’s first Chief AI Ethics officer and created the AIEthics twitter hashtag. She was part of the group which met at Asilomar to create the Asilomar AI Ethical Principles. Kay regularly speaks to international audiences addressing many aspects of the beneficial and challenging technical, economic and social changes arising from the use of AI. She has been consistently recognized as a leading woman in AI since 2018 and was featured in the New York Times as one of 10 Women Changing the Landscape of Leadership. She is also a Distinguished Professor at INSEAD and on the Advisory Board of the College of Natural Sciences at the University of Texas

She was an adjunct professor of law at the University of Texas at Austin.[3]

Also she has authored many articles and given many speeches on the topics of AI, law, international relations, AI ethics and AI for business and government transformation

Education

Firth-Butterfield graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in law and social science from the University of Sussex. She attended St. Mary's University for her further studies, where she received a Master's degree in international relations and a Master of Laws.[4]

Career

Firth-Butterfield started her career as a barrister and part-time judge in the United Kingdom .[5] Over time, she began to research more topics about the future of law, including the impact of AI, and specialized more at the intersection of AI and policy.[6] More recently, she has served as an adjunct professor of law at the University of Texas at Austin, where she co-founded the AI-Austin initiative with the Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law.[3][7] Firth-Butterfield is currently an Associate Fellow at the Leverhulme Center for the Future of Intelligence at the University of Cambridge and heads the AI and machine learning executive committee at the World Economic Forum.[8][9]

She has advised governments, think tanks, and nonprofits about artificial intelligence law, ethics, and policy. She established an AI ethics advisory panel at Lucid.ai in 2014, which has since included AI experts like Murray Shanahan, Max Tegmark, and Derek Jinks.[2][10] Since 2015, she has served as the Executive Committee Vice Chair of IEEE's Global Initiative on Ethical Considerations in the Design of AI and Autonomous Systems.[11][12] She has also served on Lord Chief Justice’s advisory panel on AI and law, the advisory board for UNESCO's International Research Centre on AI, and AI4ALL's advisory board.[13] She is on the Polaris Council for the Government Accountability Office (USA).

Firth-Butterfield has written two books, including Human Rights and Human Trafficking[14] and Laws on Human Trafficking,[15] the latter co-authored with Tina Miranda.

Selected Awards and Honors

  • 2017 - Most Important 25 Women in Robotics[16]
  • 2018 - 12 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics[17]
  • 2020 - VentureBeat Women in AI Awards Responsibility & Ethics of AI Nominee[18]
  • 2020 - 100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics Hall of Fame Honoree[19]
  • 2020 - Forbes Women Defining The 21st Century AI Movement[20]
  • 2021 - The New York Times 10 Women Changing the Landscape of Leadership[6]

Selected Speaking Engagements

  • 2017 - Future of Life Institute; AI and Ethics[21]
  • 2018 - CogX; Re-Imagining the Regulator with Rwandan Regulator[22]
  • 2019 - WIRED; AI in Business[23]
  • 2020 - AI Expo Africa; Governance and the Great Reset[24]
  • 2020 - India AI; Raise 2020[25]
  • 2020 - Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society; Launch of the "Ethical Framework for Artificial Intelligence in Colombia" with President Iván Duque Márquez[26]
  • 2021 - Davos; Fostering Responsible AI Leadership[27]
  • 2021 - UNESCO; Girl Trouble: Breaking Through The Bias in AI[28]

Selected Publications and Articles

References

  1. ↑ Khodabandeh, Sam Ransbotham and Shervin. "Tech and Ethics: The World Economic Forum’s Kay Firth-Butterfield on Doing the Right Thing in AI" (in en-US). https://sloanreview.mit.edu/audio/tech-and-ethics-the-world-economic-forums-kay-firth-butterfield-on-doing-the-right-thing-in-ai/. 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "World Economic Forum’s AI head on how to protect human rights without stifling innovation" (in en-US). 2019-04-29. https://venturebeat.com/2019/04/29/world-economic-forums-ai-head-on-how-to-protect-human-rights-without-stifling-innovation/. 
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Conn, Ariel (2017-01-27). "Kay Firth-Butterfield Interview" (in en-US). https://futureoflife.org/2017/01/26/kay-firth-butterfield-interview/. 
  4. ↑ "Kay Firth-Butterfield (Associate) | Doughty Street Chambers" (in en). https://www.doughtystreet.co.uk/barristers/kay-firth-butterfield-associate. 
  5. ↑ "Kay Firth-Butterfield". http://lcfi.ac.uk/about/team/kay-firth-butterfield/. 
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 "10 Women Changing the Landscape of Leadership" (in en-US). The New York Times. 2021-03-05. ISSN 0362-4331. https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/03/05/world/women-leadership. 
  7. ↑ "AI-Austin Launches to Promote Ethical Uses of Artificial Intelligence" (in en-US). https://www.strausscenter.org/news/ai-austin-launches-to-promote-ethical-use-of-ai-tools/. 
  8. ↑ Schenker, Jennifer L. (2021-04-18). "Interview Of The Week: Kay Firth Butterfield, World Economic Forum" (in en). https://innovator.news/interview-of-the-week-kay-firth-butterfield-world-economic-forum-2649f7e3aa8f. 
  9. ↑ "The 158th GRIPS Forum - "Who or what should govern AI?"" (in en). https://www.grips.ac.jp/en/oldgrips_forum/20181022-5554/. 
  10. ↑ "Lucid Selects New Member To Join Ethics Advisory Panel" (in en). https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/lucid-selects-new-member-to-join-ethics-advisory-panel-300225335.html. 
  11. ↑ "IEEE EAD First Edition Committees". 2019-01-01. https://standards.ieee.org/content/dam/ieee-standards/standards/web/documents/other/ec_bios.pdf. 
  12. ↑ Chatila, Raja (2017-03-29). "IEEE Global Initiative Aims to Advance Ethical Design of AI and Autonomous Systems" (in en). https://spectrum.ieee.org/ieee-global-initiative-ethical-design-ai-and-autonomous-systems. 
  13. ↑ "Girl Trouble: Breaking Through The Bias in AI" (in en). 2021-02-22. https://en.unesco.org/girltrouble/panelists/kay_firth-Butterfield. 
  14. ↑ Firth-Butterfield, Kay (2012). Human Rights and Human Trafficking. Kendall Hunt Publishing Company. ISBN 1465201440. 
  15. ↑ Firth-Butterfield, Kay; Miranda, Tina (2013). Laws on Human Trafficking. Kendall Hunt Publishing Company. ISBN 1465201432. 
  16. ↑ "25 women in robotics you need to know about – 2017". October 10, 2017. https://robohub.org/25-women-in-robotics-you-need-to-know-about-2017/. 
  17. ↑ Dand, Mia (2019-10-10). "12 Brilliant Women in Artificial Intelligence & Ethics to Watch in 2018" (in en). https://miad.medium.com/12-brilliant-women-in-artificial-intelligence-ethics-to-watch-in-2018-6b435000bc52. 
  18. ↑ "Announcing nominees for the second annual Women in AI Awards" (in en-US). 2020-07-15. https://venturebeat.com/2020/07/15/announcing-nominees-for-the-second-annual-women-in-ai-awards/. 
  19. ↑ "Hall of Fame" (in en-US). https://100brilliantwomeninaiethics.com/the-list/hall-of-fame/. 
  20. ↑ Minevich, Mark. "The Women Defining The 21st Century AI Movement: Part 1 Of 2" (in en). https://www.forbes.com/sites/markminevich/2020/03/13/top-women-in-ai/. 
  21. ↑ "Kay Firth-Butterfield Interview" (in en-US). 2017-01-27. https://futureoflife.org/2017/01/26/kay-firth-butterfield-interview/. 
  22. ↑ (in en) CogX 2018- Patrick Nyirishema in Conversation with Kay Firth-Butterfield | CogX, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ivFz7QM0ZE, retrieved 2021-08-27 
  23. ↑ (in en) Kay Firth-Butterfield: The evolving world of AI ethics | WIRED Smarter 2019, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UweQQxnMjEs, retrieved 2021-08-27 
  24. ↑ (in en) AI Expo Africa 2020: Governance and the great RESET, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40KTMYpgH94, retrieved 2021-08-27 
  25. ↑ "RAISE 2020: Head of AI & ML, WEF, Kay Firth-Butterfield, is set to speak at the event" (in en). https://indiaai.gov.in/news/raise-2020-head-of-ai-ml-wef-kay-firth-butterfield-is-set-to-speak-at-the-event. 
  26. ↑ (in en) Launch of the "Ethical Framework for Artificial Intelligence in Colombia", https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9QLDC-BGbk, retrieved 2021-08-27 
  27. ↑ "Fostering Responsible AI Leadership (Option 2)" (in en). https://www.weforum.org/events/the-davos-agenda-2021/sessions/fostering-responsible-ai-leadership/. 
  28. ↑ https://plus.google.com/+UNESCO+(2021-02-17).+"Girl Trouble: Breaking Through The Bias in AI" (in en). https://en.unesco.org/girltrouble. 
  29. ↑ http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_48540_WP_End_of_Innovation_Protecting_Patent_Law.pdf
  30. ↑ "The Ethical Use of AI in Hiring and Recruitment". https://artificial-intelligence.cfotechoutlook.com/cxoinsights/the-ethical-use-of-ai-in-hiring-and-recruitment-nid-394.html. 
  31. ↑ "WIPO Technology Trends 2019: Artificial Intelligence". https://www.wipo.int/edocs/pubdocs/en/wipo_pub_1055.pdf. 
  32. ↑ "AI Governance: A Holistic Approach to Implement Ethics into AI" (in en). https://www.weforum.org/whitepapers/ai-governance-a-holistic-approach-to-implement-ethics-into-ai/. 





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