Jade Leung (engineer)

Jade Leung
Jade Leung (2015)
OccupationResearcher
AwardsRhodes scholarship, 2016
Academic background
EducationUniversity of Auckland
University of Cambridge
Alma materUniversity of Oxford

Jade Leung is a New Zealand researcher and engineer. Her work focuses on the ethical development of artificial intelligence, particularly on regulation and safety protocols for upcoming generations of artificial general intelligence .[1] She is a former Governance and Policy Advisor to OpenAI,[2][3] and a former research and Head of Partnerships at the Governance of Artificial Intelligence Program at Oxford's Future of Humanity Institute. Leung leads the Research Unit at the UK AI Safety Institute.[4][3][5]

Career[edit]

Leung graduated from the University of Auckland with a Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) with First Class Honours in Civil Engineering in 2015.[6] She won a Rhodes Scholarship in 2016.[7] She completed her DPhil in International Relations in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford in 2019.[8] Her PhD thesis was on "Who will govern artificial intelligence? Learning from the history of strategic politics in emerging technologies".[9]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Stuff". www.stuff.co.nz. Retrieved 2024-05-18.
  2. ^ "OECD AI Policy Observatory Portal". oecd.ai. Retrieved 2024-05-18.
  3. ^ a b "People | GovAI". www.governance.ai. Retrieved 2024-05-18.
  4. ^ "Frontier AI Taskforce: second progress report". GOV.UK. Retrieved 2024-05-18.
  5. ^ "Jade Leung". www.research.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 2024-05-18.
  6. ^ "Graduate Search". graduatesearch.auckland.ac.nz. Retrieved 2024-05-18.
  7. ^ "Jade Leung". Rhodes Trust. Retrieved 2024-05-18.
  8. ^ "Jade Leung - Future of Humanity Institute". 2023-04-08. Archived from the original on 2023-04-08. Retrieved 2024-05-18.
  9. ^ Leung, J. (2019). Who will govern artificial intelligence? Learning from the history of strategic politics in emerging technologies [PhD thesis]. University of Oxford. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:ea3c7cb8-2464-45f1-a47c-c7b568f27665