Presenter:
Jacob Turner

Jacob is a barrister and author of Robot Rules: Regulating Artificial Intelligence (2018). He has acted in some of the world’s most significant AI-related cases, including as counsel for Dr Thaler in the UK Supreme court in Thaler v Comptroller-General of Patents (the ‘AI Inventor’ case), representing the claimants in Drivers v Uber and OLA Cabs (the ‘robo-firing’ case), and defending (successfully) the first company investigated by the UK data protection regulator for alleged AI bias. Jacob has been named a Global Market Leader in AI by Chambers & Partners. He is currently advising the UK government on its AI policy.