One of TIME100’s Most Influential People in AI, Verity Harding is one of the world’s foremost experts on technology, power and politics.

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She is Founder of Formation Advisory, where she advises the world’s leading CEOs and public figures on AI strategy, and Director of the AI & Geopolitics Project at the University of Cambridge. Her book AI Needs You: how we can change AI’s future and save our own, was featured in the Financial Times, the Guardian, the Economist and named as one of McKinsey’s Best Books of 2024.

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As Google DeepMind's first Global Head of Public Policy, she co-founded the company's policy, ethics and socio-technical teams as well as independent multi-stakeholder group Partnership on AI. Prior to her career in tech, Harding was a political adviser to the Deputy Prime Minister of the UK, focussed on national security. She has served on the boards of organisations including the Royal Academy of Arts and the Cabinet Office Digital Advisory Board, and is a current member of the Board of Trustees for The King’s Trust.​​