Policy Fellowship for Sam Cannicott

Deputy Director, AI and Digital Regulation Policy, Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) (view profile)

Deputy Director (Projects), Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation

Policy Fellow, Centre for Science and Policy

Sam Cannicott is Head of the Policy & Projects team at the UK Government’s Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation. In this role he oversees the Centre’s collaborative work with other organisations, supporting them to develop and deploy data driven technology responsibly. His project portfolio includes work with police forces, the Ministry of Defence, local authorities and the Department for Education. Before joining the Centre, Sam worked in the New Zealand civil service where he led a public engagement programme exploring citizens’ views of how data about them should be used and shared.

He has previously worked in multiple policy roles with a particular focus on the education sector.

Questions

  • 1. How can the state, when considering regulation as well as the deployment of AI in public services, consistently evaluate potential risks or harms against the benefits of deploying particular data driven technologies?
  • 2. How should we define public benefit and consider it along side privacy when it comes to sharing data and developing or deploying data driven technologies?
  • 3. How can data and predictive analytics be used responsibly to incentivize healthy life choices?
  • 4. How should consent be addressed when it comes to the deployment of connected devices in the public space and public services (e.g. smartcities, transportation, care homes)?
  • 5. How should we approach accountability, explainability and transparency when it comes to the deployment of AI by defence, security and intelligence agencies?

  • 11 May 2022

    Accommodation

    Check in - 2.00pm

    Check out - 9.30am

    All rooms are non-smoking. Guests should report to the Porter’s Lodge on arrival where they will be given their keys.

    Porters' Lodge +44 1223 338100

    Pembroke College, Trumpington Street, Cambridge, CB2 1RF
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  • 12 May 2022 09:15 – 09:45

    Introductory Meeting

    m.evans@jbs.cam.ac.uk

    CSaP 10 Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 1QA
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    Directions to next meeting: 10 minute walk.

  • 12 May 2022 10:00 – 10:45

    Meeting with Dr Seán Ó hÉigeartaigh, Executive Director, Centre for the Study of Existential Risk, University of Cambridge

    so348@cam.ac.uk

    Centre for the Study of Existential Risk 16 Mill Lane, Cambridge, CB2 1SB
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  • 12 May 2022 11:00 – 11:45

    Meeting with Dr Jennifer Cobbe, Assistant Professor in Law and Technology, Faculty of Law

    jc2106@cam.ac.uk

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  • 12 May 2022 12:00 – 13:00

    Meeting with Magda Osman, Head of Research and Analysis, Centre for Science and Policy

    m.osman@jbs.cam.ac.uk

    CSaP, 10 Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 1QA
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  • 12 May 2022 13:15 – 14:30

    Lunch/Break

  • 12 May 2022 14:45 – 15:45

    Meeting with Sam Smith, Policy Lead, MedConfidential

    samsmithsemail@gmail.com

    Hot Numbers, 4 Trumpington St, Cambridge CB2 1QA
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  • 12 May 2022 16:00 – 17:00

    Meeting

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  • 13 May 2022 09:30

    Accommodation

    Check in - 2.00pm

    Check out - 9.30am

    All rooms are non-smoking. Guests should report to the Porter’s Lodge on arrival where they will be given their keys.

    Porters' Lodge +44 1223 338100

    Pembroke College, Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 1RF
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    Directions to next meeting: CSaP to arrange taxi to pick up at 09:45 from CSaP.

  • 13 May 2022 10:00 – 11:00

    Meeting with Dr John Mason

    Microsoft, 21 Station Road, Cambridge CB1 2FB
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  • 13 May 2022 11:30 – 12:30

    Meeting with Dr Julia Rone, Research Fellow, CRASSH

    Julia.Rone@eui.eu

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    1. How can the state, when considering regulation as well as the deployment of AI in public services, consistently evaluate potential risks or harms against the benefits of deploying particular data driven technologies?

    4. How should consent be addressed when it comes to the deployment of connected devices in the public space and public services (e.g. smartcities, transportation, care homes)?

    5. How should we approach accountability, explainability and transparency when it comes to the deployment of AI by defence, security and intelligence agencies?

    Zoom call from CSaP, 10 Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 1QA
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    Directions to next meeting: 15 minute walk.

  • 13 May 2022 13:00 – 14:00

    Meeting

    1. How can the state, when considering regulation as well as the deployment of AI in public services, consistently evaluate potential risks or harms against the benefits of deploying particular data driven technologies?

    2. How should we define public benefit and consider it along side privacy when it comes to sharing data and developing or deploying data driven technologies?

    4. How should consent be addressed when it comes to the deployment of connected devices in the public space and public services (e.g. smartcities, transportation, care homes)?

    Newnham College, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge CB3 9DF Meeting and Lunch
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    Directions to next meeting: 15 minute walk.

  • 13 May 2022 15:00 – 16:00

    Meeting with Professor Gina Neff, Executive Director of The Minderoo Centre for Technology & Democracy, University of Cambridge

    gsn23@cam.ac.uk

    Judge Business School, Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 1AG Meeting room W4.06, please go to Reception
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  • 13 May 2022 16:00 – 16:30

    Meeting with Nicky Buckley, Director for Fellowships and Networks, Centre for Science and Policy

    njb1010@cam.ac.uk

    Judge Business School Cafe Trumpington Street Cambridge CB2 1AG
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  • 13 May 2022 16:30

    Meeting

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    Cambridge Railway Station TBC

  • 26 May 2022 09:30 – 10:30

    Meeting with Professor Mark Girolami, Sir Kirby Laing Professor of Civil Engineering and Helen Margetts, Professor of Society and the Internet, University of Oxford

    mag92@cam.ac.uk helen.margetts@oii.ox.ac.uk

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  • 12 May 2050 16:00 – 17:00

    Postponed

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    King's College, King's Parade, Cambridge CB2 1ST Meet at Porter's Lodge
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