UK AI institute appoints new chair

Royal Society executive director to lead institute that works on ensuring AI improves social wellbeing

The UK’s Ada Lovelace Institute—an independent research centre working to ensure data and artificial intelligence are used to improve social wellbeing—has appointed a new chair of its oversight board.

The Royal Society’s current executive director, Julie Maxton, has been selected to take up the role at the institute, which has a “core belief” that the benefits of data and AI should be “justly and equitably distributed”.