Harry Hunter

How to Govern SkyNet

An early morning and delayed train with vicious air conditioning later I’m back in the big smoke; throwing myself into conversations and requirements for approaching the governance of machine learning capabilities. We’re expecting massive growth in data science over the next few years, yet given how much of government work is in the public eye we need to be able to validate why decisions are made as the accountable body.

We expect it to be a balancing act between being an enabling structure during incubation, and further scrutiny required depending on how impactful on end users the output of the capabilities become.

Interventionrama

The rest of the week was really lost in a haze of data analysis and the use case capture as we continued to build up our knowledge of how users currently work, why and the ‘So What’ from a cyber security point of view. Mostly the stuff that makes the cyber experts squirm were team level processes implemented due to a lack of ‘corporate’ solutions, so we’re having really positive engagement from turning adhoc processes into end to end supported services which are;

✅Safer (Cyberz)

✅Cheaper (Faster end to end)

✅Integrated (Better UX)

It’s nice to be able to write up user stories with back of the envelope ROIs in the weeks or months from helping users save time and get on with doing more important stuff.

London Life

Book of Mormon with the Team this week; it’s good….. but….

A. It was ridiculously hot in the Theatre

B. I feel Hamilton spoilt my appreciation of Musicals….

Wasting time….

Watching re-runs of Suits….. feeling lazier after many hours driving last week.

Still prevaricating my way through Sapians and #musiclife has centred on ‘The Bamboos’ this week mixing hip hop, pop’ish tones and trumpets.

So another week gained, another week lost and a weekend of racing at Pivot 24/12 beckons.