{"id":114067,"date":"2025-09-04T13:36:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T13:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/114067\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T13:36:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T13:36:07","slug":"head-of-uks-beleaguered-alan-turing-institute-resigns-artificial-intelligence-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/114067\/","title":{"rendered":"Head of UK\u2019s beleaguered Alan Turing Institute resigns | Artificial intelligence (AI)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The chief executive of the UK\u2019s leading artificial intelligence institute is stepping down after a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/aug\/18\/shut-it-down-and-start-again-staff-disquiet-as-alan-turing-institute-faces-identity-crisis\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">staff revolt<\/a> and government calls for a strategic overhaul.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Jean Innes has led the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/alan-turing\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alan Turing<\/a> Institute since 2023, but her position has come under pressure amid widespread discontent within the organisation and a demand from the institute\u2019s biggest funder, the UK government, for a change in direction.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">ATI said the search was already under way for a replacement for Innes, who held senior roles in the civil service and technology industry before her appointment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Innes said on Thursday: \u201cIt has been a great honour to lead the UK\u2019s national institute for data science and artificial intelligence, implementing a new strategy and overseeing significant organisational transformation. With that work concluding, and a new chapter starting for the Institute, now is the right time for new leadership and I am excited about what it will achieve.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">ATI has been beset by internal strife since last year as staff protested against internal changes, culminating in a group of employees <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/aug\/10\/staff-alan-turing-institute-ai-complain-watchdog\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">filing a whistleblower complaint<\/a> to the Charity Commission last month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The chief executive of the UK\u2019s leading artificial intelligence institute is stepping down after a staff revolt and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":114068,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-114067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114067\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}