UKRI and AI
Anna Angus-Smyth EPSRC Head of AI
Artificial Intelligence @ EPSRC
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Anna Angus-Smyth, Head of AI, EPSRC
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EPSRC & UKRI UpdateUKRI-Led FundsAI @ EPSRC and UKRI
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UKRI/EPSRC Update
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UK Research and Innovation, launched in April 2018
Drivers for creation:Greater strategic vision for UK science
Providing a stronger voice into Government in support of UK science
Creating greater space for individual Research Councils to put more effort into science (and less into back-office)
Enabling greater co-ordination including for interdisciplinary research
Improved policy for science and improved science for policy
Transition to UKRI:UKRI organisation
The UKRI Family
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EPSRC is well placed, through its core investment in fundamental EPS research and skills, to provide the strong
foundation for UKRI
To be an outstanding organisation
that ensures the UK maintains its world leading position in research and innovation
Transition to UKRI:EPSRC’s role in the changing landscape
EPSRC’s Strategic Delivery Plan
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Delivering a Prosperous Nation
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PRODUCTIVITY
we invest in the emergent science fields that have the potential to develop into tomorrow’s innovative products, processes, services and technologies
CONNECTIVITY
we invest in the fundamental and application driven research that is key to social and economic transformation around data analytics, AI and cybersecurity
HEALTH
we promote collaborative, interdisciplinary working with researchers and end users to generate solutions for current, emerging and future health and social care issues
RESILIENCE
we invest in the unified, whole-systems approach needed to solve the environmental and social problems of a sustainable and resilient future
Transition to UKRI:£4.7 billion more for R&D
This increase in funding, if baselined at an additional £2bn per annum, is likely to halt the decline in R&D investment as a percentage of GDP (currently around 1.7%).
In the 2016 Autumn Statement £4.7bn of additional funding for R&D was announced, with a rising profile, over the period 2017/18 to 2020/21.
Transition to UKRI:working towards 2.4%
In 2015 UK’s expenditure on R&D represented 1.7% of GDP –below the OECD average R&D intensity of 2.4%.
The Government has committed to reaching 2.4% of GDP investment in R&D by 2027, and to reaching 3% in the longer term. As a first step it will invest an additional £2.3bn over what was previously planned in 2021/22. UKRI will work with the Government to develop a roadmap for meeting this target to be published in 2018.
UKRI opportunities
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Industrial Strategy
Challenge FundStrategic
Priorities FundFund for
International Collaborations
Strength in Places Fund
Talent and Skills Funds
Global Challenges
Research Fund
EPSRC’s Big Ideas Initiative
Opportunity for you to help us develop a portfolio of big ideas that can feed into future planning.
https://epsrc.ukri.org/research/ourportfolio/epsrcbigideas/
Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund
Challenge Fund aims:
• To build on the UK’s world-class research base to deliver the science that business needs to transform existing industries and create new ones
• To accelerate commercial exploitation of the most exciting technologies the UK has to offer the world, ensuring that scientific investment truly delivers economic impact, jobs and growth right across the country
• To support industry-led programmes powered by multi-disciplinary research and business-academic collaboration
Accelerating detection of
disease
Smart sustainable packaging
https://innovateuk.blog.gov.uk/2019/02/05/industrial-strategy-challenge-fund-wave-3-shortlist/
Commercialising quantum
technologies
Digital security by design
Driving the electric
revolution
Future flight
Industrial decarbonisation
Manufacturing made smarter
Transforming foundation industries
ISCF Wave 3 Challenges are subject to business case. More info here:
Wav
e 3
Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund
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Title Total investment
Other partners
Faraday Battery Challenge £246M IUK
Robots for a Safer World £93M IUK
Medicines Manufacturing £188M IUK, MRC, BBSRC?
Transforming Construction / Active Building Centre
£170M IUK< ESRC
Prospering from the Energy Revolutions (PFER)
£108M IUK, ESRC, NERC, STFC
Audience of the Future £33M IUK, AHRC
Next Generation Services £20M IUK, ESRC
Quantum Technology £20M IUK
Wave 1 and 2 Wave 3
Title Total investment Other partners
Future Flight £125m IUK, ESRC
Industrial Decarbonisation Challenge
£170m IUK, ESRC, NERC, BBSRC
Digital Security by Design £70m IUK
Transforming Foundation Industries
£66m IUK, ESRC, NERC
Manufacturing Made Smarter £147m IUK, ESRC, NERC, AHRC, STFC
Commercialising Quantum Technologies
£70m IUK
Driving the Electric Revolution £80m IUK, NERC
Smart Sustainable Plastic Packaging
£60m IUK, NERC, BBSRC, ESRC, AHRC, STFC
From data to early diagnostics and precision medicine
£210m IUK, MRC, BBSRC
Strategic Priorities Fund
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Title Total investment
Other partners
AI and data science for science engineering and gov't
£39.3M BBSRC, STFC, MRC, NERC
Physics for life £31.2M MRC, BBSRC
Ensuring the security of digital technologies at the periphery
£30.6M IUK, AHRC, ESRC
Climate resilience £18.7M NERC, Met Office, ESRC, AHRC
Clean air: analysis and solutions
£19.6M NERC, Met Office, MRC, ESRC, IUK, NPL
Landscape decisions £10.5M NERC, ESRC, BBSRC, AHRC
Constructing a digital environment
££10.4M NERC
Title Total investment Other partners
National interdisciplinary circular economy research centre
NERC, ESRC
Protecting citizens online ESRC, AHRC
Trustworthy autonomous systems
AHRC, STFC, UKSA, IUK, ESRC
Excalibur Met Office, STFC, NERC, MRC
Clean air: future challenges
NERC, MRC, ESRC, IUK, NPL
Greenhouse gas removal NERC, ESRC, IUK, BBSRC, AHRC
Quantum sensors for fundamental physics
STFC
Wave 1 Wave 2
UKRI opportunities
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Industrial Strategy
Challenge FundStrategic
Priorities FundFund for
International Collaborations
Strength in Places Fund
Talent and Skills Funds
Global Challenges
Research Fund
EPSRC’s Big Ideas Initiative
Opportunity for you to help us develop a portfolio of big ideas that can feed into future planning.
https://epsrc.ukri.org/research/ourportfolio/epsrcbigideas/
What is ‘Big Ideas?’
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Developing ideas with the community
Big ideasubmitted
Business ready Ideas assessed and taken forward
Big Ideas is a project that is developing a framework to identify and prioritise new “Big Ideas” from the research community. The framework will support the development of these ideas from conception to business case.
A Big Idea is an adventurous and exciting idea from the research community that will have the ability to enthuse the public and Government, and that will be transformative or enabling if successful.
Big ideas are those that are hard to achieve, require significant support (financial, people, skills) to make them possible and have ground-breaking impacts (in all forms), attract public and government enthusiasm and excitement.
Why are we doing it?
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Responding to a changing environment.
Allowing ideas to be generated, assessed
and developed.
Ensuring our community are ready to articulate their ideas in a manner
that appeals to government audiences.
AI @ EPSRC
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The high political profile of AI
Industrial Strategy White Paper – AI and Data Economy are one of four Grand ChallengesHall and Presenti Review ‘Growing the Artificial Intelligence Industry in the UK’APPG & Lords Select Committee ReportAI Sector DealOffice for AI & AI Council
Is this an opportunity or a threat?
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Realising the Opportunity of AI: EPSRC’s Aims
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Build mutually beneficial
relationships with
stakeholders
Put the UK in a world leading
position in AI research and
innovation
Understand the
landscape, and the
opportunities and gaps
Academic Community
IndustryOAI & AI Council
Colleagues across UKRI
CDEIODI Lloyds Register
Foundation
Government Departments
Research StrengthsOpportunities
Gaps/NeedsAreas of Potential
International Funding Landscape UK USPs
Areas of international leadership/competitiveness
Leading the realisation of opportunities
Realising the Opportunity of AI: UKRI AI Review
The review aims to understand current support for AI research and innovation, identify opportunities and assess gaps in provision, and recommend future support strategies that will enable AI to realise its full potential to the UK.
The review will:Map current support for AI related research and innovationEngage key stakeholders in exploring the UK’s ambitions and desired outcomes for AI related research and innovation, and considering the role of public investment in delivering these Set out a strategy for appropriately supporting AI research and innovation in the UK, including specific recommendations for UKRI activities
The UKRI AI Review – Where are we trying to get to?
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Healthcare
ICT
Core‐ApplicationsLinked AI
Applications and Societal,Ethical, Economic Impacts
of AI
Understanding &Developing
fundamental AI
Maths
RRI ðics
Creative Industries
EnvironmentEnergy
Financial Services
Transport Systems
Robotics
Pharmaceuticals &Biotech
Manufacturing
Smart Infrastructure& IoT
Cybersecurity
Strategic Needs
People Pipeline – Skills and leadership
Innovation & Translation
InfrastructurePublic Engagement
Collaboration with Business
Data Access
Outputs
Landscape Understanding
Recommendations for supporting AI
research and innovation
Future looking strategy
Remit & Scope of the Review
Current & Future AI Activities
EPSRC Led Activities
• Trustworthy Autonomous Systems• Protecting Citizens Online• Revised AI Technologies RA
Rationale• Call in Natural Language
Processing (~£4M) – Summer 2019• Next Stage Digital Economy
Centres (£20M) – May 2019• Potential call around AI & Security• CHISTERA – Explainable AI
UKRI Led Activities
• Turing AI Fellowships • AI CDTs – management across
investment • UKRI AI Review• Upcoming FIC Activity with
Canada (ESRC Led)
Questions?
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