The CTO of the AI Security Institute and OpenAI’s former governance lead, Jade Leung, has been appointed as the Prime Minister’s new AI advisor.
Leung, who has been educated at both the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge and Auckland, is tasked with positioning the UK as the leading nation to help unlock the benefits and prepare for the impacts of transformative AI.
She will work closely with Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer to harness the technology, which the government says is key in its Plan For Change.
Leung has spent nearly a decade working in key roles relating to AI, having served as head of research and partnerships at the Centre for the Governance of AI – an organisation which she co-founded – between 2017 and 2020.
She then became an advisor for governance and policy at Sam Altman’s tech giant OpenAI, before becoming governance lead in June 2022.
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The AI expert, who was named in Time’s list of the ‘100 Most Influential People in AI’ in 2024, worked in this role for just over a year before joining the AI Security Institute as CTO in October 2023.
Her appointment comes after former AI advisor to the Prime Minister, Matt Clifford, announced that he would be stepping down from the role.
On Leung’s appointment, he wrote: “I’m delighted about this – a superb appointment (and a major upgrade on the last AI adviser…)
“Jade brings a tonne of experience in frontier labs, VC and government and will do an amazing job of ensuring the UK is an AI winner. Excellent news.”
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