Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation

Lord Maxton Excerpts
Wednesday 21st November 2018

(6 years ago)

Lords Chamber
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Lord Ashton of Hyde Portrait Lord Ashton of Hyde
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I am glad to say that there will be. Professor Luciano Floridi is Professor of Philosophy and Ethics of Information at the University of Oxford—so another Oxford man.

Lord Maxton Portrait Lord Maxton (Lab)
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My Lords, is it not correct that the centre’s name is the wrong way round? It ought to be the advisory committee on digital innovation and ethics, because the innovation will drive the ethics rather than the other way round.

Lord Ashton of Hyde Portrait Lord Ashton of Hyde
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The board of the centre will be able to cope with whichever way round the wording is. It will deal with the balance and the tensions between ethics and innovation—and indeed innovation and ethics.