Machine learning isn’t something that’s going to happen—it’s already happened.

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Ali Shah, Head of Technology Policy, Information Commissioner’s Office

“If you’ve got a smartphone in your pocket, you’ve interacted with machine learning and AI. … It’s already part of our everyday lives, yet we don’t necessarily recognize that,” said Ali Shah, head of technology policy for the U.K.’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO). Shah spoke at the Compliance Week Europe conference in November.

Aly McDevitt is Data & Research Journalist at Compliance Week. She has a background in education and college consulting. Prior to teaching, she was an editor/author at Thomson Reuters, where she reported...