The Alan Turing Institute

The Alan Turing Institute has three ambitious goals:

Advance world-class research and apply it to national and global challenges: innovate and develop world-class research in data science and artificial intelligence that supports next generation theoretical developments and is applied to real-world problems, generating the creation of new businesses, services, and jobs. 

Build skills for the future: contribute to training people across sectors and career stages with the necessary breadth and depth of technical and professional skills in data science and AI to match the UK’s growing industrial and societal needs. 

Drive an informed public conversation: provide balance in the public conversation on data science and AI by speaking to its technical, social and ethical dimensions through public engagement and the provision of advice to policymakers, industry and civil society. 

The Turing, as the UK’s national institute, has a pivotal role to play in working with the UK community to harness data science and AI technologies for the public good. By developing these technologies explicitly with this focus in mind, it can help to compound progress for the better. 

Being a national institute enables us to deliver benefits that a single university could not deliver alone. They work across disciplines: at the Turing, computer scientists, engineers, statisticians, mathematicians, ethicists, scientists, and colleagues from the humanities work together under one shared goal, with no departmental boundaries. 

The remit is one of national leadership, providing focus on UK priorities for the public good and supporting the UK’s ambition to be a global leader in data science and AI. This leadership extends not only to science and innovation, but also to public understanding and perceptions of data science and AI, as well the national skills agenda, and leading on issues of equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI). 

Website: https://www.turing.ac.uk

Together with the Turing, LIDo runs the annual ‘Responsible AI’ module for second year PhD students.