Dr Robert Elliott Smith PhD FRSA
… is a technologist, complexity scientist, entrepreneur, writer and sought-after public speaker. He is an artificial intelligence (A.I.) expert and has worked with clients, companies and institutions across the private and public sectors. Having grown up in Alabama at the height of the Civil Rights movement, he has a deeply informed perspective on bias in algorithmic systems and is dedicated to the pursuit of human-readable and responsible A.I. He is currently Director of AI and Data Science at Digital Catapult, the UK’s leading advanced digital technology innovation centre. He also serves as a science, technology, and business advisor to a number of firms. He is a Founding Trustee of We and AI, an organization dedicated to improving AI’s effects on society. He is a Senior Fellow of the Computer Science Faculty at University College London where he co-founded the Centre for Decision-Making Uncertainty. He also co-founded and co-created BOXARR Ltd., a company whose technology helps people cope with some of the world’s most complex industrial challenges.

(Dr. Smith keeps an additional blog here)