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Leverhulme Trust @leverhulme.ac.uk · 06/04/2026

‘I think these technologies are absolutely here to stay.’ In the latest episode of the We Society, @imogen-parker.bsky.social @adalovelaceinst.bsky.social discusses attitudes towards AI use in the public sector & how it could change public service provision. 🎙️ media.leverhulme.ac.uk/podcast/parker

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Matt Davies @halcyene.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Today we publish 📏𝐌𝐄𝐀𝐒𝐔𝐑𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐔𝐏📏, a new @adalovelaceinst.bsky.social briefing on AI and public sector productivity. We find: ⚖️The link between measurement and real-world outcomes is unclear 📐Workers and citizens are absent from research design ⏲️Industry shapes what gets researched Read more:

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Measuring up

Evaluating claims about AI and productivity in the UK public sector

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Joe Westby @joewestby.eurosky.social · 11/02/2026

In the wake of the Grok scandal, now new polling shows people in four major EU countries would support a ban on X if it continues to break EU law.

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Matt Davies @halcyene.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

"The point is to change it" — a volume of new essays from 21 leading academics exploring the role of philosophy in public life — launches today! Contributors include @tariqmodood.bsky.social, @martinoneill.bsky.social, @jowolff.bsky.social, @elkeschwarz.bsky.social and more. Click below to read 👇🦉

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Essays on philosophy in public life - Nuffield Foundation

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Anna Dent @annadent.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

ICO orders DWP to "disclose the list of all AI tools DWP plans to place on the Algorithmic Transparency Recording Standards Hub" I.e. publish details of all the AI they are using unless there is a valid reason to keep it secret h/t @rightsnet.org.uk

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Matt Davies @halcyene.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

"In terms of its impacts on people and planet, AI is as physical as any other industry." Thoughtful piece by @imogen-parker.bsky.social reflecting on last week's Global Fund for a New Economy convening in Nairobi: www.globalgovernmentforum.com/lessons-from...

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Lessons from Nairobi: Why we must not forget the material realities of AI - Global Government Forum

For Imogen Parker of the Ada Lovelace Institute, a Nairobi event on the global labour supply chains involved in AI and its environmental impacts re-anchored her mental image of the […]

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Hannah White @drhannahwhite.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

We at @instituteforgovernment.org.uk have coordinated a letter in @thetimes.com today in which numerous individuals and organisations call on the government to withdraw its mistaken rules which are having a serious chilling effect on civil servants speaking in public…

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Ada Lovelace Institute @adalovelaceinst.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Government departments and local authorities are looking to accelerate AI use in the public sector. Our new policy briefing presents six findings from six years of Ada’s research on public attitudes towards the use of data and AI in public services. www.adalovelaceinstitute.org/policy-brief...

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License to build

Public attitudes to public sector AI

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Matt Davies @halcyene.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Brilliant work from my @adalovelaceinst.bsky.social colleagues @imogen-parker.bsky.social and @lauracarter.bsky.social on what the UK public expect from AI deployment in the public sector www.adalovelaceinstitute.org/policy-brief...

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License to build

Public attitudes to public sector AI

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Ada Lovelace Institute @adalovelaceinst.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Rapidly deploying AI has become one of the government’s top priorities. Read our new blog from @elliotmjones.bsky.social and @imogen-parker.bsky.social proposing four targeted recommendations to strengthen the foundations for AI in the public sector ⬇️ www.adalovelaceinstitute.org/blog/four-re...

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Building blocks: four recommendations to strengthen the foundations for AI in the public sector

How can government ensure trustworthy use of AI and deliver public value?

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Imogen Parker @imogen-parker.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

3. Create a Taskforce for local government AI procurement 4. Fund and leverage public attitudes research on AI

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Imogen Parker @imogen-parker.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

. @elliotmjones.bsky.social and I lay out four recommendations to strengthen the foundations for AI in the public sector 1. Establish a What Works Centre for AI in Public Services 2. Strengthen the Algorithmic Transparency Reporting Standard

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Imogen Parker @imogen-parker.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

If Ada's public services research landed on the desk of those leading digital transformation within government – alongside an extensive to-do list and a myriad of competing pressures – where should they start? @adalovelaceinst.bsky.social www.adalovelaceinstitute.org/blog/four-re...

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Building blocks: four recommendations to strengthen the foundations for AI in the public sector

How can government ensure trustworthy use of AI and deliver public value?

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Alan Beattie @alanbeattie.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

I failed to post this last week, but it’s one of the best op-eds you’ll read all year. Two politicians with *wildly* different orientations but a common thread of belief in the nature of citizenship and nationality. (They’re also 100% right obvs.) on.ft.com/3GS1rPl

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Alf Dubs and Jacob Rees-Mogg: citizenship stripping is fundamentally unBritish

Shamima Begum made grave mistakes. But she is our responsibility and no one else’s

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Imogen Parker @imogen-parker.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Highly sensitive information, relating to people in moments of vulnerability, has been hacked. The advice warning people of scams is important but only part of it. It's not hard to imagine harms arising if this type of information circulates or is weaponised. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Private data including criminal records stolen in Legal Aid hack

MoJ says data includes addresses, national ID numbers, criminal histories and financial details dating to 2010.

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Imogen Parker @imogen-parker.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Interested to see how this pans out...

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Imogen Parker @imogen-parker.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

In particular, I welcomed this crucial finding making it into the report summary: "there is no systematic mechanism for bringing together and disseminating the learning from all the pilot activity across government." Time for a What Works Centre for AI in the public sector?

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Imogen Parker @imogen-parker.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Many findings align with our recent evidence review, highlighting issues with data quality and curation; legacy systems; transparency and assurance www.adalovelaceinstitute.org/policy-brief...

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Learn fast and build things

Lessons from six years of studying AI in the public sector

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Imogen Parker @imogen-parker.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

PAC have published their Use of AI in Government report. Lots of valuable insight, acknowledging potential for transformation while warning Gov "faces significant challenges if it to grasp these opportunities, & we remain concerned at the scale of the task." committees.parliament.uk/work/8580/us...

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Use of AI in Government - Committees - UK Parliament

Government’s ambition is for the public sector to set an example in the safe and ethical deployment of artificial intelligence (AI), which both has the potential to transform services for the taxpayer...

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Imogen Parker @imogen-parker.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Want to know how the public feel about AI? We've got you. Here's the next wave of Ada and Turing's UK public attitudes survey published today 📢 attitudestoai.uk

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Lara Groves @laragroves.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Job alert!! Could you be Ada's new Associate Director in Emerging Tech & Industry Practice, leading a fab team and a highly impactful research programme? It's a pretty amazing gig, @agstrait.bsky.social has built something incredible (no pressure). Get in touch if you have Qs!

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Associate Director, Emerging Technology and Industry Practice - Ada Lovelace Institute

The Ada Lovelace Institute (Ada) is a hiring an Associate Director to lead our Emerging Technology & Industry Practice research directorate and collectively set its agenda and workplan in our next...

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Armando Iannucci @aiannucci.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

“There is this terrible misconception that disabled people just take, but actually by taking from us, you prevent us from being able to give – we want to be able to participate in life equally the same as anyone else, and that includes going to work.” Disability campaigner Tanni Gray-Thompson

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Imogen Parker @imogen-parker.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Really like this list of questions to consider in the context of public sector AI. And lots of resonance with findings from Ada's research synthesis. A big +1 to sorting out the building blocks.

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Learn fast and build things

Lessons from six years of studying AI in the public sector

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Ben Goldacre @bengoldacre.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

I'm delighted to say our highly secure and productive OpenSAFELY platform has received a further £17 million in funding from Wellcome, including for a new mental health data project. More here, and clips from Today on Radio4 this morning too! www.bennett.ox.ac.uk/blog/2025/02...

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Game-changing new funding from Wellcome for OpenSAFELY and mental health data | Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science

This morning the Today programme on Radio 4 did two great spots on OpenSAFELY.

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Imogen Parker @imogen-parker.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Technology provides an opportunity beyond the technology itself. If AI is a “golden opportunity”, as Starmer put it, it is as a catalyst for fundamental service redesign, placing people at the centre of public service delivery. @adalovelaceinst.bsky.social

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Imogen Parker @imogen-parker.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

What do we want public services to look and feel like if we adopt greater data, digital and AI? What do we want our relationship to be with the public and private sectors? Where do we want technology to be accelerated or deferred to? Which relationships do we not want mediated by datafication?

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Imogen Parker @imogen-parker.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Following yesterday's speech by Starmer, it's the final point which stands out. We should see AI not as an opportunity to automate the public sector, but to reimagine it.

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Imogen Parker @imogen-parker.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

For those working in the field, many of the lessons won't come as a surprise. They are the consistent issues around terminology, transparency, procurement for example that hamper understanding and confidence in tech roll outs.

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Imogen Parker @imogen-parker.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

📢 New report out (and offering serious competition for best Ada title). Today we publish Learn Fast and Build Things. It's a synthesis of the 6 years and 30+ publications on public sector data and AI. www.adalovelaceinstitute.org/policy-brief...

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Learn fast and build things

Lessons from six years of studying AI in the public sector

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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

X has become an extraordinary case study in irresponsible innovation. The lesson is that carelessness does not just make a technology less nice, it also makes it less useful.

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Imogen Parker @imogen-parker.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

The move to 'security' centres a framing of malicious harm - bad faith actors that could use AI. These types of treats need to be addressed. But we also need to mitigate the here-and-now risks where careless AI might replicate inequality, take away jobs, or harm the environment.

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Imogen Parker @imogen-parker.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

The addition of criminal misuse seems sensible. But I'm interested in whether others see the addition of human influence and societal resilience to make up for the loss of evaluation of 'societal impacts'. Especially as bias has been explicitly cut out of AISI's scope. www.aisi.gov.uk

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The AI Security Institute (AISI)

The AI Security Institute is a directorate of the Department of Science, Innovation, and Technology that facilitates rigorous research to enable advanced AI governance.

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Imogen Parker @imogen-parker.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Now missing from their site, are previous commitments to build and run evaluations for - Societal impacts: How models could affect our social fabric, e.g. by weakening democracy, harming individual welfare and perpetuating unequal outcomes.

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Imogen Parker @imogen-parker.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

In the list of things they are planning to evaluate, they have made some changes, adding: - Criminal Misuse - Human Influence (how AI systems could influence humans and reduce individual autonomy) - Societal Resilience (how can we make society more resilient to AI risks) But...

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Imogen Parker @imogen-parker.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

I know everyone was hoping for a quiet Friday, but... UK Gov has announced a step back from AI safety, by rebranding AISI as the AI 'Security' Institute. Really thoughtful commentary from colleague @mbirtwistle.bsky.social here & short 🧵below on key changes www.ukauthority.com/articles/ai-...

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AI Safety Institute becomes AI Security Institute | UKAuthority

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Imogen Parker @imogen-parker.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Looking forward to the (only marginally less glamorous) UK leg of the Paris AI Summit today. Speaking with a great line up on AI in public services - come say hi if you're around. aifringe.org @adalovelaceinst.bsky.social

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AI Fringe 2025: 11–12 February

The AI Fringe will return to mark the Paris AI Action Summit with a two day live event at the British Library Knowledge Centre in London.

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Ada Lovelace Institute @adalovelaceinst.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

The Paris AI Action Summit is almost upon us, but will it actually move the needle towards AI that works for people and society? In our latest blog post we share some of our key questions for the Summit ⬇️ www.adalovelaceinstitute.org/blog/a-piece...

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A piece of the action

The questions we’re asking ahead of the AI Action Summit

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Imogen Parker @imogen-parker.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

And as ever, the unsung heroes are the @adalovelaceinst.bsky.social comms team, who have done an inconceivable amount of work in the last four weeks alongside Paris prep. Anyone else feel like they've completed 2025 already and it's time for a break?

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What Year Is It GIF

ALT: What Year Is It GIF

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Imogen Parker @imogen-parker.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

And a new research on public compute initiatives, and recommendations to ensure policy strategies deliver for society. Authored by @halcyene.bsky.social and @jaivipra.bsky.social www.adalovelaceinstitute.org/report/compu... @adalovelaceinst.bsky.social

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Computing Commons

Designing public compute for people and society

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Imogen Parker @imogen-parker.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Two pieces of essential reading from Ada colleagues in advance of the AI Summit First, the excellently titled 'Delegation Nation' A primer for policymakers on Advanced AI Assistants by @juulsm.bsky.social @harryfarmer.bsky.social www.adalovelaceinstitute.org/policy-brief...

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Delegation Nation

Advanced AI Assistants and why they matter

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Andrew Strait @agstrait.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

In the run-up to the French Summit, we've released a briefing on advanced AI assistants and why they should be front and center in the discussions around safety, governance and regulation. See below for details ⬇️

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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

In Paris listening to the fifth talk in a row on global AI risks to humanity, and not one mention yet of runaway AI energy demand pushing us over the climate brink

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Imogen Parker @imogen-parker.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

We are doing a exciting new inquiry looking at 14-24 year olds' experiences of growing up with technology. We are looking for a partner to support a major piece of peer research as part of the programme. Please share www.adalovelaceinstitute.org/our-work/res...

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Invitation to tender: Peer Research for ‘Digital Lives’ project

Part of the Nuffield Foundation 'Grown up?' programme

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Rebecca Adler-Nissen @adler-nissen.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

🤔 The 🇩🇰 government asked us: how can democratic control over tech giants be strengthened? We - the government's expert group on tech giants - outline 7️⃣ principles and a set of guidelines for tackling economic, democratic, and security vulnerabilities:

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

"The regulation and governance of AI in EdTech has not kept pace with the evolution of the products, leaving pupils and schools exposed to potentially risky technologies being deployed." Hugely important work on AI and edtech in schools from @adalovelaceinst.bsky.social and @nuffieldfoundation.org

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