Kay Firth-Butterfield

CEO of Good Tech Advisory, former Head of Artificial Intelligence & Quantum and member of the Executive Committee at the World Economic Forum

Kay Firth-Butterfield is the CEO of Good Tech Advisory. Among he many awards, in 2024 she was a TIME 100 Impact Awardee 2024, Whos Who Emerging Innovator, recognized in Who’s Who in America & Forbes 50 over 50 . Her new book “Co-Existing with AI: Work, Love and Play in a Changing World will be published by Wiley in January 2025. She is the former Head of Artificial Intelligence & Quantum and member of the Executive Committee at the World Economic Forum and is one of the foremost experts in the world on the use & governance of AI. She is a Barrister, former Judge and Professor, technologist and entrepreneur who has an abiding interest in how humanity can benefit from new technologies, especially AI. She was the world’s first Chief AI Ethics officer in 2014. Kay is joint Head of AI at Doughty Street Chambers and a board member of many renowned organisations including the Polaris Council for the Government Accountability Office (USA), the Advisory Board for UNESCO International Research Centre on AI, The Advisory Boards of SwissRE & Fathom and Board of EarthSpeciesProject. She is an Executive Advisor to the Cantellus Group, a Visiting Scholar at the University of Notre Dame and a Fellow at New America in their Future of Work and Innovation team. She serves on the advisory board of various international endeavours in Responsible AI including the OECD/IEEE Global Trust Challenge & UKRAI TAS Hub. She has been consistently recognized as a leading woman in AI and Leadership, including by the New York Times.