Jerome Pesenti / Jérôme Pesenti, VP of AI at FB and founder of IBM Watson led the UK government's AI review (aka AI Sector Deal)
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/artificial-intelligence-sector-deal/ai-sector-deal
https://www.uktech.news/news/why-ai-should-embraced-not-feared-20170807
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jpesenti/
The AI Sector Deal policy paper led the establishment of the UK government's Office for AI and AI Council. Other contributors to the paper included:
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Greg Cark MP
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Matt Hancock MP
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Professor Dame Wendy Hall
Work bio:
VP of AI, Facebook (Jan 2018 - Present)
Chairman of Board, Pittsburgh Dataworks (Mar 2013 - Present)
Board member, BenevolentAI (Sept 2016 - Sept 2019)
CEO, BenevolentTech (BenevolentAI) (Sept 2016 - Dec 2017)
VP, Watson Platform, IBM (Feb 2016 - Aug 2016)
VP, Watson Core Technology, IBM (Jan 2014 - Feb 2016)
Chief Scientist, Big Data & Distinguished Engineer, IBM (May 2012 - Dec 2013)
Founder & Chief Scientist, Vivisimo (Acquired by IBM) (2000 - May 2012)
Visiting Scientist, Carnegie Mellon University (Sept 1998 - Jun 2000)
Education:
PhD, Mathematics, Paris-Sud University (Paris XI) (1995 - 2000)
DEA, Sciences Cognitive, Pierre and Marie Currie University (1997 - 1998)
Maitrise, Philosophie, Université Paris-Sorbonne (1992 - 1994)
Carnegie Mellon University