Jade Leung, Chief Expertise Officer on the AI Safety Institute (AISI), has been named the Prime Minister’s new AI adviser, succeeding Matt Clifford, who stepped down in June.
Leung will advise on how the UK captures the advantages of ‘transformative AI’ whereas making ready for its dangers, aligning with the Authorities’s Plan for Change. She is going to report on to the Prime Minister and to the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Expertise, dividing her time between Downing Road and AISI.
The appointment comes as the federal government strikes from technique to supply on its AI Alternatives Motion Plan — a programme aiming to spice up development and public-sector productiveness via AI, underpinned by long-term compute, information and planning reforms (together with information centres). An early focus is increasing state-backed AI compute and enhancing entry to high-quality datasets for analysis and trade.
Leung beforehand labored at OpenAI between 2021–2023 in governance and coverage roles, together with as governance lead, and earlier co-founded the Centre for the Governance of AI on the College of Oxford. She holds a DPhil from Oxford and was a Rhodes Scholar.
She is going to change Matt Clifford, who had suggested Quantity 10 on AI since January and helped form the AI Alternatives Motion Plan earlier than stepping down for private causes in June. His temporary included accelerating public-sector adoption and scoping the UK’s long-term AI infrastructure.
The brand new function for Leung lands amid intensifying world exercise on AI security and governance, together with her expertise prone to be key in serving to form the UK Authorities’s coverage.
