JACOB TURNER

Jacob Turner is a barrister and author. His new book, Robot Rules: Regulating Artificial Intelligence (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018) discusses how to address legal responsibility, rights and ethics for AI. He has been quoted on regulating AI in publications including The Economist, Wired and Al Jazeera.

He has acted for sovereign states including Argentina, Greece, Russia and Iraq. Jacob has previously worked in the legal department of a country's Permanent Mission to the UN in New York, and also as a speechwriter to the ambassador.

Jacob is a member of the advisory board of Conflict Analytics Lab, a research-based consortium on artificial intelligence and data analytics applied to conflict resolution and negotiation.

He has lectured at Oxford, Cambridge and King's College London as well as at various technology and law firms. He has also given speeches at UNESCO in Paris, and the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva.

Jacob holds law degrees from Oxford University and Harvard.

OTHER WORK

Jacob has written articles on regulating AI for publications including Quartz and the Spectator.

In addition to Robot Rules. Jacob is also the co-author (with Lord Mance) of Privy Council Practice (Oxford University Press, 2017) a practitioner guide to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, which sits as the final court of appeal for 30 countries and territories worldwide.

Jacob has also written widely on international law and politics. Below is a selection of his books and articles: