Kay Firth-Butterfield

Kay Firth-Butterfield is a lawyer, professor, and author specializing in the intersection of business, policy, 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

Kay Firth-Butterfield
Known forArtificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
International Relations
Law
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Sussex (B.A.)
St. Mary's University (M.A., LL.M.)
Inner Temple
Academic work
InstitutionsWorld Economic Forum
University of Texas at Austin

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] She was called to the Bar by Inner Temple after completing her studies to be a Barrister-at-Law.

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.

She is the mother of Lt. Rohaise Isobel Firth-Butterfield of the USAF

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

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". MIT Sloan Management Review. Retrieved August 23, 2021.
  2. "World Economic Forum's AI head on how to protect human rights without stifling innovation". VentureBeat. April 29, 2019. Retrieved August 23, 2021.
  3. Conn, Ariel (January 27, 2017). "Kay Firth-Butterfield Interview". Future of Life Institute. Retrieved August 23, 2021.
  4. "Kay Firth-Butterfield (Associate) | Doughty Street Chambers". www.doughtystreet.co.uk. Retrieved August 23, 2021.
  5. "Kay Firth-Butterfield". Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence. Retrieved August 23, 2021.
  6. "10 Women Changing the Landscape of Leadership". The New York Times. March 5, 2021. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved August 23, 2021.
  7. "AI-Austin Launches to Promote Ethical Uses of Artificial Intelligence". The Strauss Center. Retrieved August 23, 2021.
  8. Schenker, Jennifer L. (April 18, 2021). "Interview Of The Week: Kay Firth Butterfield, World Economic Forum". The Innovator. Retrieved August 23, 2021.
  9. "The 158th GRIPS Forum – "Who or what should govern AI?"". National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS). Retrieved August 23, 2021.
  10. "Lucid Selects New Member To Join Ethics Advisory Panel". Cision. Retrieved August 23, 2021.
  11. "IEEE EAD First Edition Committees" (PDF). January 1, 2019.
  12. Chatila, Raja (March 29, 2017). "IEEE Global Initiative Aims to Advance Ethical Design of AI and Autonomous Systems". IEEE Spectrum. Retrieved August 23, 2021.
  13. "Girl Trouble: Breaking Through The Bias in AI". UNESCO. February 22, 2021. Retrieved August 23, 2021.
  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". RoboHub. October 10, 2017.
  17. Dand, Mia (October 10, 2019). "12 Brilliant Women in Artificial Intelligence & Ethics to Watch in 2018". Medium. Retrieved July 10, 2021.
  18. "Announcing nominees for the second annual Women in AI Awards". VentureBeat. July 15, 2020. Retrieved August 23, 2021.
  19. "Hall of Fame". 100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics™. Retrieved August 23, 2021.
  20. Minevich, Mark. "The Women Defining The 21st Century AI Movement: Part 1 Of 2". Forbes. Retrieved August 23, 2021.
  21. "Kay Firth-Butterfield Interview". Future of Life Institute. January 27, 2017. Retrieved August 27, 2021.
  22. CogX 2018– Patrick Nyirishema in Conversation with Kay Firth-Butterfield | CogX, retrieved August 27, 2021
  23. Kay Firth-Butterfield: The evolving world of AI ethics | WIRED Smarter 2019, retrieved August 27, 2021
  24. AI Expo Africa 2020: Governance and the great RESET, retrieved August 27, 2021
  25. "RAISE 2020: Head of AI & ML, WEF, Kay Firth-Butterfield, is set to speak at the event". indiaai.gov.in. Retrieved August 27, 2021.
  26. Launch of the "Ethical Framework for Artificial Intelligence in Colombia", retrieved August 27, 2021
  27. "Fostering Responsible AI Leadership (Option 2)". World Economic Forum. Retrieved August 27, 2021.
  28. https://plus.google.com/+UNESCO (February 17, 2021). "Girl Trouble: Breaking Through The Bias in AI". UNESCO. Retrieved August 27, 2021.
  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". CFO tech outlook. Retrieved August 27, 2021.
  31. "WIPO Technology Trends 2019: Artificial Intelligence" (PDF).
  32. "AI Governance: A Holistic Approach to Implement Ethics into AI". World Economic Forum. Retrieved August 27, 2021.
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