Media, Tech & Society: Who is responsible in the age of intelligent machines?

Conference + Fair Monday 7th October 2019

BBC Radio Theatre Broadcasting House London W1 1AA TheSessions 10:00 Opening Keynote. Grace Boswood, COO BBC Design + Engineering

10:25 Whose AI Is It Anyway? Tina and guests examine the value of responsibility versus the cost of irresponsibility. Dr Indra Joshi, Sana Khareghani & Sandra Wachter

11:40 The Media Show - Do machines make the right choices for young people? Andrea Catherwood and guests explore the impact on young people of growing up in this new algorithmically-influenced culture and ask who is responsible for This session will be shaping the waythey think. recorded for broadcast on Anne Longfield OBE, Hanna Adan, Neil BBC Radio 4. Lawrence & Dr Nejra Van-Zalk

12:45 BBC Click - Is this responsible tech? Spencer Kelly hosts live on-stage tech demos…what could possibly go wrong?! 14:00 BBC Philharmonic Orchestra - Can AI compose music? You decide… Composer Robert Laidlow and the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra throw AI and human creativity into a big melting pot. Can you tell which bits are written by AI and by a human?

14:45 Beyond Fake News - A Disinformation Dystopia? The floor is yours! This Question Time style debate hosted by Kamal Ahmed, BBC News Editorial Director, will answer questions posed by you about disinformation, ‘fake news’ and synthetic media. Nahema Marchal, Rachel Botsman, Simon Cross & Tom Walker

15:50 NewsRevue - Alexa make me laugh! Live comedy with a fast-moving mix of sketches and songs about our relationship with technology from the NewsRevue team.

© Alex Brenner, NewsRevue Edinburgh 2019 16:15 Beyond Today - Our AI future: Who is in control? Leading technologists and thinkers predict how AI and algorithms will shape our future. This session will be recorded for Jamie Bartlett, Nataglie Cargill & Beyond Today on BBC Sounds. Stephanie Hare Fair

The fair will offer a hands-on and thought provoking space to explore ideas and drive conversation.

Blue Room - The Digital Human Our BBC Blue Room team will take you on a journey that focuses on advancements in virtualising humans and how you appear in the digital realm using avatars and virtual personas, as well as the emergence of increasingly life-like machines.

Market - BBC, partners and industry The BBC alongside leading partner and industry organisations will demonstrate the latest and most exciting developments in responsible tech. The Contributors

Alice Webb Anne Longfield OBE Cassian Harrison Hanna Adan Dr Indra Joshi Jamie Angus Jamie Barlett Kamal Ahmed Nahema Marchal Natalie Cargill Neil Lawrence Dr Nejra van Zalk Rachel Botsman Sana Khareghani Sandra Wachter Simon Cross Spencer Kelly Stephanie Hare Tina Daheley Tom Walker Alice Webb

Alice Webb is Director, BBC Children’s & Education and is responsible for the UK's two most popular networks for our youngest audiences, CBeebies and CBBC, along with their associated websites, YouTube channels, apps and radio stations. In May 2019 she also took charge of BBC Education, creating a new division and bringing together the BBC’s offer for children and young audiences. Alice also sits on the AI Council - an independent expert committee created to help boost growth of AI in the UK, promote its adoption and ethical use in businesses and organisations across the country. Anne Longfield OBE

Anne Longfield OBE was appointed the Children’s Commissioner for England in March 2015. Her role is to bring about long term change and improvements for all children – and in particular the most vulnerable children in care. The Commissioner is independent of Government, children’s agencies, the voluntary and private sector.

Anne is a long-standing and passionate champion for children, with over thirty years’ experience of developing, influencing and shaping the national policy agenda for children and families. She spent many years campaigning for better childcare, often at a time when many saw the issue as obscure or niche, and worked in former Prime Minister Tony Blair’s Strategy Unit devising the Sure Start children’s centre programme. Cassian Harrison

Cassian Harrison is Channel Editor of BBC4, one of the BBC’s most distinctive and much-loved television services. Under Cassian’s leadership, BBC4 has grown to its highest audience share in its history and leads the BBC channels in quality measures. Cassian has introduced numerous innovations to the channel, from highly successful ‘Slow’ Television, to innovative drama and performance formats such as ‘Queers’, to witty – and highly popular – takes on traditional formats with series such ‘Trainspotting Live’ and ‘British History’s Biggest Fibs’.

Over the last two years BBC4 has also become a gateway to the BBC for a new generation of talent, bringing singular and diverse voices such as Akala, Rodney P and Ryan Gander to television for the first time, and airing exciting new talent initiatives in collaboration with partners such as the BFI. Hanna Adan

Hanna Adan is a film maker who has worked as a researcher and producer for the BBC and VICE Media. She specialises in finding untold stories and sharing them with the wider audience and has worked on short and long-form documentary series and productions.

Prior to working in TV, Hanna completed a masters in Nature, Society and Environmental Policy at the University of Oxford where she wrote a dissertation titled 'Who Governs the Environment of a Non-Existent State'; looking at how the lack of international recognition effects the Self Declared Republic of Somaliland which subsequently led her to work as an anthropology and archaeology researcher in Kenya with The British Institute in Eastern Africa. Dr Indra Joshi

Dr Indra Joshi is the Head of Digital Health and AI for NHSx, overseeing the digital health initiatives within the NHS with a focus on data, digital health standards, evidence and AI.

Indra has a unique portfolio with experience stretching across policy, governance, digital health and marketing, national project strategy and implementation; whilst remaining true to her professional training as an emergency medic.

She is the Clinical Director of One HealthTech – a network which campaigns for the need and importance of better inclusion of all backgrounds, skillsets and disciplines in health technology. Alongside she is a Vice Chair for the British Computer Society (Health), an international speaker and consultant on digital health, an expedition medic, and most importantly a mum to two wonderful little munchkins. Jamie Angus

Jamie Angus is the Director of BBC World Service Group. BBC World Service broadcasts around the world on TV, Radio and Online in 42 languages. In English, our BBC World News channel and the BBC News website are run as a commercial company within the BBC, with the aim of distributing our high quality and independent international news, sport and weather coverage around the world. World Service Group currently reaches an audience of 346 million per week globally.

Prior to taking up this role, Jamie was the Editor of the flagship Today Programme, which provides politics and international news coverage for 7 million radio listeners a week within the UK. Jamie Bartlett

Jamie Bartlett is the author of three books: The People Vs Tech (2018) about data and democracies, Radicals (2017) about political outsiders & extremists, and the best- selling The Dark Net (2014) about hidden internet subcultures.

In 2010 he founded the Centre for the Analysis of Social Media at the think-tank Demos, where he spent a decade specialising in online social movements and the impact of technology on society.

He is a regular commentator on national and international media outlets and recently presented the two-part BBC documentary series 'The Secrets of Silicon Valley'. His Ted Talk about the dark net markets has been watched 5 million times. Kamal Ahmed

Kamal Ahmed is responsible for shaping the BBC’s future editorial strategy, focusing on how to make journalism more relevant to more people. Kamal joined the BBC in 2014 as Business Editor, moving to the role of Economics Editor two years later.

Prior to his career at the BBC, Kamal spent four and half years as business editor of the Sunday Telegraph and before that at The Observer as head of news and prior to this, its political editor. Nahema Marchal

Nahema is a doctoral candidate at the Oxford Internet Institute and a researcher at the Computational Propaganda Project. Her work focuses on the role of affect in online political communication, in particular its impact on polarisation, and the use of social media in misinformation campaigns.

Nahema holds an MA in Political Theory from the New School for Social Research and a B.Sc. in Political Science and International Relations from the University of Bristol. Her research has been featured in several media outlets including the New York Times, the Financial Times and the BBC. Natalie Cargill

Natalie is the Founder & Executive Director of Effective Giving, a nonprofit which helps high-net-worth donors maximize the impact of their philanthropy. Effective Giving focuses on reducing global catastrophic risk via safely navigating emerging technologies.

Effective Giving’s clients include the UK’s youngest self- made billionaire Ben Delo; their grantees include the Centre for Human Compatible AI and John Hopkins Centre for Health Security; and their collaborators include the Open Philanthropy Project.

Natalie lectures widely on philanthropy’s enormous potential to tackle the new and complex challenges posed by advanced technologies at public events and universities, including Collision and WebSummit, and the University of Cambridge and King’s College London. Neil Lawrence

Neil Lawrence is the DeepMind Professor of Machine Learning at the University of Cambridge and the co-host of Talking Machines.

Neil’s main research interest is machine learning through probabilistic models. He focuses on both the algorithmic side of these models and their application. His recent focus has been on the deployment of machine learning technology in practice, particularly under the banner of data science. Dr Nejra van Zalk

Dr Nejra van Zalk is a lecturer in psychology and human factors at the Dyson School of Design Engineering. She is a developmental psychologist whose work focuses on understanding psychological mechanisms that govern human behaviour, emotions, and decision-making processes related to designing products, services, and behavioural interventions that benefit mental health. She is the head of the Design Psychology Lab and lead for the Imperial College Human Behaviour and Experience Network (HuBEx). Rachel Botsman

Rachel Botsman is a leading expert and author on trust in the modern world. By distilling complex ideas into clear and compelling content, she gives us the tools to understand trust – what it means, how it works and why it’s essential for every aspect of our lives. She has been recognised as one of the world's 50 most influential management thinkers and honoured as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum Sana Khareghani

Holding a BSc in Computer Science and an MBA from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sana Khareghani has over 20 years’ experience in technology and business across the private and public sectors.

She has worked as a software engineer in big corporates and start-ups, as a management consultant advising senior officials throughout North America, Europe and the Middle East, and in HMG, currently as Deputy Director, Head of the Office for AI – a joint unit between Department for Digital, Media, Culture and Sport (DCMS) and the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS). Sandra Wachter

Sandra Wachter is an Associate Professor and Senior Research Fellow in Law and Ethics of AI, Big Data, and robotics as well as Internet Regulation at the Oxford Internet Institute at the University of Oxford. Sandra is specialising in technology-, IP-, and data protection law as well as European-, International-, human rights (online) and medical law. Her current research focuses on the legal and ethical implications of AI, Big Data, and robotics as well as profiling, inferential analytics, explainable AI, algorithmic bias, governmental surveillance, predictive policing, and human rights online. Simon Cross

Simon Cross is the head of product for the Community Integrity team at Facebook London, where he focusses on building a safe, inclusive community by minimising bad experiences for people on Facebook's family of apps. In his nearly nine years at Facebook, he's worked on several important projects to the company’s 10 year roadmap, including Login with Facebook and Workplace, Facebook's enterprise software product that helps change how companies connect and collaborate. Before Facebook, Simon held senior engineering and product roles at the BBC. Spencer Kelly

Spencer absolutely denies that he was given the job presenting Click because he hacked the BBC’s personnel records and inserted his name on the payroll.

Spencer swears it was his nearly two decades of presenting experience and double first in Computer Science from Cambridge that swung the job for him. He was also recently awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Technology by Coventry University, which has made him even more unbearable. Stephanie Hare

Stephanie Hare is an independent researcher and broadcaster focused on technology, politics and history. Previously she worked as a Principal Director at Accenture Research, a strategist at Palantir, a Senior Analyst at Oxford Analytica, the Alistair Horne Visiting Fellow at St Antony's College, Oxford, and a consultant at Accenture. She holds a PhD and MSc from the London School of Economics and a BA in Liberal Arts and Sciences (French) from the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign. Her book on technology ethics will be published later this year. Her work can be found at harebrain.co Tina Daheley

Tina Daheley’s broadcasting work stretches across news and current affairs to sport and the arts. Tina can currently be heard presenting the news on the Zoe Ball breakfast show on Radio 2. Before this, she was best known for hosting the news and sport on Radio 1’s Breakfast Show alongside Nick Grimshaw. She regularly presents the News on BBC Television, Woman’s Hour on Radio 4, and also manages to to fit in hosting The Cultural Frontline, her own weekly global arts programme on the BBC World Service. Tina was an integral part of the BBC Sounds launch co- hosting the “BeyondToday” podcast with Matthew Price. Tina holds a first class honours degree in Computer Science and a Masters in Broadcast Journalism. Tom Walker

Jonathan Pie is the creation of Tom Walker and has been described by Rory Bremner as ‘the most important satirical creation since Partridge. Following a sell-out UK tour of his 2018 live show Back To The Studio, which went on to be broadcast on BBC Three, the frustrated News Reporter Jonathan Pie, whose videos have been seen across the world, has announced a brand new 37-date nationwide tour for autumn 2019: The Fake News Tour.