In response to the resignation, a spokesperson from the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology said: “The technology secretary has been clear on the need for the institute to deliver value for money and maximum impact for taxpayers, and we will continue our work to support that ambition.”<\/p>\n
Staff who wrote the whistleblowing complaint have told the BBC Dr Innes’ resignation was the “first step”.<\/p>\n
“With the rest of our \u00a3100m public funding still at stake, the priority now is to ensure the leadership overhaul that should follow – board and executive alike – can command the confidence of staff, government, regulators and, most importantly, the nation,” they said.<\/p>\n
The Turing Institute said its board was now looking to appoint a new CEO who will oversee “the next phase” to “step up its work on defence, national security and sovereign capabilities”.<\/p>\n
Its work had once focused on AI and data science research in environmental sustainability, health and national security, but moved on to other areas such as responsible AI.<\/p>\n
The government, however, wanted the Turing Institute to make defence its main priority, marking a significant pivot for the organisation.<\/p>\n
“It has been a great honour to lead the UK’s national institute for data science and artificial intelligence, implementing a new strategy and overseeing significant organisational transformation,” Dr Innes said.<\/p>\n
“With that work concluding, and a new chapter starting… now is the right time for new leadership and I am excited about what it will achieve.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In response to the resignation, a spokesperson from the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology said: “The technology…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":121077,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-121076","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\/121076","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=121076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121076\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}