Tess Buckley

Digital Ethics and Artificial Intelligence Safety techUK

Tess is a digital ethicist and musician. After completing an MA in AI and Philosophy, with a focus on ableism in biotechnologies, they worked as an AI Ethics Analyst with a dataset on corporate digital responsibility (paid for by investors that wanted to understand their portfolio risks). They then supported the development of a specialised model for sustainability disclosure requests. Currently, at techUK, their north star is demystifying and operationalising ethics through assurance mechanisms and standards - their latest work focuses on mapping the responsible AI profession and sector specific AI assurance. Outside of work, their primary research interests are in AI music systems, AI fluency and tech by/for differently abled folks.