UKAI

UKAI Working Groups

UKAI’s Working Groups form the practical backbone of our mission to guide responsible AI adoption across the UK. They unite practitioners from diverse sectors to collaborate on real-world challenges, co-develop tools, and inform policy, ensuring that AI is both innovative and accountable.

Why They Exist

As AI becomes embedded across industries, its impact stretches into legal, life‑science, and equity domains. UKAI Working Groups were created to:

  • Offer platforms for senior professionals tackling AI-specific regulatory, ethical, or operational challenges
  • Enable peer-driven development of tools, frameworks, and best practices
  • Ensure that UKAI’s outputs remain grounded, actionable, and sector‑relevant

Our Working Groups

Legal Working Group

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The UKAI Legal Working Group brings together senior in-house counsel and legal leaders to address the real-world legal implications of AI adoption. From procurement and contracting to IP, explainability, and regulation, this group exists to support those on the frontline of legal risk and innovation.

Life Sciences Working Group

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The UKAI Life Science Working Group brings together senior leaders across pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical devices industry coupled with a digital innovation to tackle the practical challenges of AI adoption in this particular sector.

Women in AI Working Group

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The UKAI Women in AI Working Group champions inclusive AI by bringing in voices and experiences often excluded – ensuring representation, accountability, and equity are embedded in AI deployment

Agentic AI Working Group

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The UKAI Agentic AI Working Group helps senior leaders navigate the opportunities and risks of autonomous systems, focusing on practical deployment, resilience, and responsible adoption.

Future Talent & AI Working Group

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The UKAI Future Talent & AI Working Group explores how AI is reshaping skills, careers, and the workforce—helping leaders prepare for the future of work.

Responsible AI Working Group

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The UKAI Future Talent & AI Working Group helps senior talent leaders navigate AI’s impact on recruitment, career design, and workforce strategy—turning disruption into smarter, fairer approaches and tools.

New Working Groups

Working groups forming now:

Future working groups:

How Our Working Groups Operate

All UKAI Working Groups follow a shared model for maximum impact:
 

Roundtables

Regular member-led roundtables, deep dives, and strategy sessions

Fireside Conversations

Private, invitation-only fireside conversations with sector leaders to explore frontier issues confidentially

Collaborative Outputs

Co-development of practical tools: checklists, frameworks, templates, and guidance documents

Policy and Regulator Engagement

Active engagement in policy, ensuring real-world insights shape UKAI’s advocacy and external work

Outcome-focus

Activities designed to be efficient and outcome-focused, grounded in what practitioners need and do

How to Get Involved

If you’re a UKAI member and actively tackling AI-related challenges in law, life sciences, inclusion, or another field, we’d love to hear from you. Reach to your membership lead to express interest- or nominate a colleague to take part in these impactful communities.