Why AI is a double-edged sword in an election year – Angie Ma, co-founder, Faculty

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🗓️ 13 February 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Dr Angie Ma, co-founder of Faculty, explains how AI poses both a threat and an opportunity during an election year, explains why the company stopped doing political work post-Brexit referendum, and shares her top productivity tips for entrepreneurs.

Ma founded Faculty with Dr Marc Warner and Andy Brookes in 2014. The London-based firm began as a fellowship to help academics become commercial data scientists. It now provides software and consulting services to businesses, with clients including HSBC, Tide and John Lewis. Faculty was controversially paid by Vote Leave to provide services during the 2016 Brexit referendum, but said it stopped doing political work in 2019. Ma, who holds a PhD in physics and applied optics from UCL, previously served as Faculty’s chief operating officer and chief people officer.

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0:00.0	Any success in the business involves a lot of luck and that's out of our control.
0:12.0	But it is possible to increase our odds of success.
0:18.0	After the referendum, realized that the amount of media interests when you do political work
0:24.4	is distracting us from our actual work, so we've decided that we won't do any political
0:30.1	work.
0:31.1	I think the UK has a unique opportunity to build on its AI leadership.
0:41.0	From the first time founders to the funds that back them, innovation needs different.
0:46.8	Our episode partner, HSBC Innovation Banking, is proud to accelerate growth for tech and life
0:52.9	science businesses, creating meaningful connections
0:55.6	and opening up a world of opportunity for entrepreneurs and investors alike.
1:00.9	Discover more at www.h.hsbc InnovationBanking.com slash EN-GB.
1:13.6	Hello and welcome to the UKTN podcast, a weekly chat with the movers and shakers of the UK
1:19.1	tech industry and the destination for all things UK tech related.
1:23.7	I am your host, Jane Wakefield, and this week I am joined by Angie Ma, co-founder of artificial
1:29.4	intelligence firm Faculty. Welcome, Angie.
1:32.5	Hello, everyone. Delighted to be here.
1:35.5	So first of all, Angie, just talk me through very briefly what it is that faculty does.
1:40.1	So faculty, we are a applied AI technology company. We transform organizational performance through safe, impactful and human-first AI.
1:52.0	This year is our 10-year anniversary.
1:55.0	So we've been around for quite a while for AI companies.
1:59.0	And with 10 years of experience, we are leading experts at helping customers harness the benefits of AI while safely managing the risks.
2:09.6	We founded a company in 2014 with a training program helping academics becoming commercial data scientists.
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